Cartoonist David Pope has been named a finalist at the Walkley Awards for a 10 th time.

The Canberra Times editorial cartoonist is in the running for the Cartoon of the Year award for a powerful image drawn in response to the starvation crisis in Gaza.

Pope's work Gaza, published in July, showing a starving child centred on an empty dinner plate, will be judged against work by Warren Brown of The Daily Telegraph and Alan Moir of The Sydney Morning Herald.

In his entry, Pope wrote: "There is no drawing that could shock or move a reader more than an actual news photo of a starving child. This cartoon takes the familiar symbols associated with eating ... and raises the political question of just what is the end game of this terrible war?"

Pope has been a Walkleys finalist 10 times

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