Jules Faber

Jules has been a cartoonist since his formative years, but it wasn't until 2004 that he went full-time. Since then he's won numerous awards for his comic strips and book illustration work, including Best Comic Strip at the Rotary Cartoon Awards in 2013 and Book of the Year in 2014 for Anh Do's 'WeirDo'.

Jules has worked in various pursuits over the years, including as an animator for a Disney production, a newspaper editorial cartoonist and columnist, a teacher of 'Comic Book Illustration' and 'Storyboarding and Scriptwriting' for TAFE Qld and a 'live' caricaturist drawing five-minute portraits for thousands of corporate events.

Crack Up Published by Pan Macmillan Australia March 2020.
Max Crack and his best friend Frankie are back with even more quest-worthy adventures! Armed with a shiny new quest list, they are on a mission to find a meteorite, make a movie, solve a sisterly feud, eat truckloads of chocolate, set a world record …. read all about it!

In August 2019 Pan Macmillan published the first book Jules has written and illustrated, The Quest Diaries of Max Crack. The book is presented as Max's diary, and it's a visual feast: full of speech bubbles, doodles, asides, highlighted words, and crossed-out words. It's a stream of visual and verbal consciousness and captures the intriguingly chaotic mind of an 11-year-old perfectly.

On top of the 'WeirDo' series for Scholastic, Jules also illustrates the 'Kaboom Kid' series by David Warner for Simon & Schuster and the 'Leo da Vinci' series by Michael Pryor for Random House. He has held multiple exhibitions of his work over the years and is currently serving his third term as president of the Australian Cartoonists Association, the world's oldest cartoonist's organisation.

He is married with a devil-may-care young daughter.