Bob Brockie


Robert Ellison Brockie is a New Zealand cartoonist, scientist, columnist and graphic artist.
He was an editorial cartoonist for the National Business Review from 1975 to 2018, specialising in political satire. As a biologist he is interested in animal populations, animal behaviour and diseases and did his PhD on hedgehog ecology. He has published material on butterfly evolution in Sicily, behaviour of sparrows, magpies, possums, starlings, mange mites, animal roadkill, flax flowering, cabbage tree disease.
He was science columnist for Wellington's Dominion Post newspaper from 2001–2018.
Brockie takes a strong interest in refuting popular myths, like danger to humans from 1080 poison used to control possum populations.
Brockie is a member of New Zealand Skeptics.
In the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours, Brockie was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science and cartooning. He is a Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has twice been named New Zealand Cartoonist of the Year.

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