The Australian Financial Review’s editorial cartoonist David Rowe has won the Australian Cartoonists Association’s Gold Stanley for best cartoonist of the year for a record-extending 11th time.

Rowe was also awarded the Bronze Stanley award for best caricaturist at the association’s 41st Annual Stan Cross Awards, held in Hobart on Saturday night. It was the 15th time Rowe had taken out the award.

It is Rowe’s third consecutive Gold Stanley, an award he first won in 2002.

The remaining seven bronze Stanleys went to: Frantz Kantor (book illustrator), Paul Mason (comic book artist), Tony Lopes (comic strip cartoonist), Cathy Wilcox (editorial/political cartoonist), Paul Harvey (event cartoonist), David Pope (illustrator) and Megan Herbert (single gag cartoonist).

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