David Pope (cartoonist)

David Pope
Born	1965 (age 51–52)
Nationality	Australian
Known for	Editorial/political cartoons
Awards	See this article's Awards section
Website	Scratch! Media, Canberra Times gallery

David Pope (born 1965) is an Australian cartoonist, who has served as the daily editorial cartoonist for The Canberra Times since March 2008.

David Pope was born in 1965. The Pope family moved to Canberra when David was 7 years old. He lived in the Belconnen suburb of Macgregor, and attended the schools Ginninderra High School in Holt and then Copland College in Melba. He briefly attended university at the Australian National University in Canberra, and later enrolled in Labour Studies at the University of Adelaide.

Pope describes himself as being "sidetracked into the peace movement, the punk movement and community radio" during the 1980s. This included time associated with Canberra's 2XX FM, and the union movement.

David Pope began drawing cartoons for various Australian publications in the mid-1980s. This included publications associated with the labour movement, environmental movement and other alternative press periodicals.

An early publisher was The University of Adelaide's Labour Studies Briefing, which used Pope's cartoons to illustrate the academic research into labour policy that was being summarised by the digest. Other publishers included Common Cause, The Metalworker, The Socialist, Socialist Worker, Green Left Weekly, Frontline, Chain Reaction,The Republican, The Northern Rivers Echo, The Diplomat, The New Doctor, Overland, and Arena. Pope formed the publication business Scratch! Media to publish and distribute his work.

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