About 

Carlos Amato is the editorial cartoonist for the Mail & Guardian and News24, and a freelance illustrator and writer, based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

In 2020, he won the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Award for Editorial Cartoons. Recent cartoons by him have been featured by Die Welt (Germany), Suddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) and Solidar (Switzerland). Several of his pandemic-themed cartoons were collected in the 2020 international cartoon anthology “Paper, Pen, Pandemic: Viral Reflections” (Benevento Publishers, Austria), as well as the Danish newspaper Politiken’s showcase of the best cartoons on the pandemic from around the world.

He has written a sports biography for young adults, Wayde van Niekerk: The Road To Glory (Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2018), about South Africa’s Olympic sprinter.

Earlier in his career, he worked as a football writer and arts editor for the Sunday Times South Africa, winning the Vodacom Sports Journalist of the Year and SAB Sports Columnist of the Year awards.

As a football and culture writer, he has contributed to publications including The Economist 1843, the Mail and Guardian, The Financial Mail, Schweitzer Illustrierte (Switzerland), Business Day, Kickoff magazine and Gazeta de Povo (Brazil). 

His commercial clients have included Middlesex Cricket Club, Absa Bank, Kearney and the Airports Company of SA.

He lives with his wife and two children in Johannesburg.

For commissions, prints or more information, please contact him at camato@mweb.co.za.