Bob Brockie
Cartoonist, Person
1932 –
Who is Bob Brockie?
Robert Ellison Brockie MNZM is a New Zealand cartoonist, scientist, columnist and graphic artist.
He has been an editorial cartoonist to the National Business Review since 1975, 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 has been a science columnist for Wellington's Dominion Post newspaper since 2001.
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 Queen's Birthday Honours 2013, xxx was appointed a Member of The New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science and cartooning.
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