“Cook got here in the nick of time. Australia hardly seems to exist and there seems to be no one running it. Cook, sailing down the coast of political mutterings and aimless optimism, may well have discovered it.’ Petty

“Patrick ... has an overriding and overpowering urge to make wisecracks: it’s the larrikin streak. In fact it’s almost a disease with him.’ Leunig

‘Patrick Cook’s wit and irreverent pen is a firmly established and often deplored fact and really needs no advertisement beyond deploring its existence. It is really quite unfair to us older cartoonists to have such young original talent in print.’ Tanner

Patrick Cook is the Walkley Award winning cartoonist of the National Times and the Financial Review. His previous book, COMING SOON, was eagerly received by a public stimulated by Cook’s cartoons for the past eight years.