Will Mahony

Francis William Mahony (11 March 1905 – 1 April 1989), professionally known as Will Mahony, was an Australian illustrator, cartoonist, caricaturist and printmaker. He was the son of the Australian artist Frank P. Mahony.

During the 1920s Mahony mainly worked as a commercial artist and printmaker in Sydney. From the early 1930s he began to produce political cartoons for various left-wing publications. For over seven years from March 1933 Mahony's cartoons were a regular feature in The Labor Daily (later renamed the Daily News), the newspaper reflecting the views and policies of the Australian Labor Party. In June 1940 the newspaper was acquired by the Daily Telegraph, with most of the staff including Mahony being retained. In November 1944 Mahony was dismissed from the staff of the Daily Telegraph for refusing to put his name to a cartoon critical of trade unions.

In the post-war years Mahony worked as an artist drawing comic strips and book illustrations.