Jenny Coopes, also known as Jennifer Coopes, is an Australian political cartoonist, illustrator and painter.
Career
She contributes as a cartoonist for Australian law journal the Justinian. Coopes was trained at the Brisbane Technical Art College. Later she would attend University of North South Wales and work as a cartoonist for the student newspaper Tharunka.
She contributed to many newspapers in the 1970s her time was mainly vested in the National Times from 1977 to the 1980s.
Politics
While she claims that she stumbled on to creating political cartoons, she was able to make a career off of the drawings, which is a great testament to skill given that in the 1970s she was the female cartoonist working in Australian newspapers. In 1984 she would contribute her work to Fairfax newspapers in Sydney such as: Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review.