High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tohby Riddle is an Australian cartoonist and picture-book creator. In 2005 he became editor of The School Magazine, in which his illustrations, non-fiction pieces and poems appear regularly. In 2009 he won the Patricia Wrightson Prize in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards with Ursula Dubosarsky for their book The Word Spy.Tohby was born in Sydney, Australia, and has lived there since. His early years were spent at a Steiner school. After high school, Tohby went to Sydney College of the Arts where he majored in painting and guitar playing. Tohby got a job in a small but growing publishing house. He was mailing clerk at what was then Pan Books Australia. Knowing he had a better chance of illustrating a book if he wrote it himself, Tohby produced a mock up of a story called Careful with that Ball, Eugene! It became his first book.