First seven weeks of Over the Fence by Syd Miller as featured in the ABC Weekly from it’s first issue published 2nd December 1939. The ABC Weekly was published from 1939 until 1959 and featured a wealth of Australian cartoonists during it’s publication history.
2nd Dec 1939
9th Dec 1939
16th Dec 1939
23rd Dec 1939
30th Dec 1939
6th Jan 1940
13 Jan 1940
9 Dec 1939
9 Dec 1939
16 Dec 1939
23 Dec 1939
30 Dec 1939
Selection of gag cartoons by prolific Australian cartoonist Les Such as featured in the ABC Weekly’s first month of publication. Despite their printing at a much smaller scale than as featured here, these cartoons all bristle with movement, a common element of Such’s deft brushwork.
16th April 1937
26th April 1937
6th Jan 1937
24th March 1937
Sports cartoons from Melbourne newspaper The Age published in 1937. I’m not sure who the cartoonist is, the signature is a little indistinct but I suspect it is the work of Reg Hicks an émigré from England in 1921 who had worked for the Argus prior to starting at the Age in 1937. Initially in 1937 Hicks was contributing juvenile strips for the children’s section, Betty and Bob See The World and Willy and Wally, before moving onto adventure strips which included the 100 page serialised epic The Space Patrol.
Devil Doone comic, The Beauty Snatchers by co-creator R. Carson Gold and longtime Doone artist Hart Amos. The Devil Doone Comic series published by K G Murray reprinted stories originally featured in Man Junior magazine.
Examples of New Zealand born cartoonist/illustrator Maurice Bramley (1898 - 1975) covers for long running Australian magazine World’s News.
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