Paul Zanetti

Paul Zanetti (born 8 September 1961 in Wollongong) is a political cartoonist based in Australia.

He was the youngest paid political cartoonist on a major metropolitan newspaper in Australia. While still at school, he regularly contributed to The Sun newspaper in Sydney, from the age of 16 years.

In 1980, he joined The Sun Art Department in Sydney where he continued to contribute cartoons. Eight months later he accepted the full-time cartooning position on the Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph (Australia's largest circulating newspaper). This position had been vacated by Bill Mitchell, who had moved to The Australian, taking Larry Pickering's position.

At the age of 23 he won the journalism Walkley Award for cartooning.

In 1990 Paul moved to the United States to study syndication. On his return, he pioneered political cartoon syndication in Australia, appearing in newspapers throughout Australia and internationally. In 1993 Paul co-founded Australian Newspaper Features (ANF) Pty Ltd, Australia's first content syndicator of features and columns by household Australian names, Ray Martin (What Does Ray Say?), John Laws (Lawsie), Rene Rivkin (Taking Stock), Angry Anderson (Getting Angry), Paul 'Fatty' Vautin (Life With Fatty) and John-Michael Howson from LA (Hollywood Hotline).

In the US Zanetti's cartoons are syndicated through Cagle cartoons.

Recently Paul has been working on an online self publishing (CMS) platform, planned for release in Q2 2017.