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.
Reg E Hicks' Adventures of Tightrope Tim strip ran in the Sunbeams supplement from 1941 to 1949 and to the best of my knowledge was one of the strips that carried through the paper shortage years when the supplement was reduced to a single folded piece of paper.
When I was young lad in the early 1980’s I would avidly read my Nana’s women’s magazines for those three panels of Mandrake the Magician in The Australian Woman’s Weekly and the Star Wars newspaper strip in the New Zealand Women’s Weekly. By the mid nineties I was a fully grown adult and had discarded childish pursuits such as comics and skateboarding and thus missed the Channel Eleven comic that featured in New Idea magazine for several months during 1995. I’m not too familiar with Australian television but I believe it is a soap opera based around fictitious characters who interact with Australian celebrities of the time. I can find no mention of this comic online but Google tells me scripter Adrian S. Tame is a veteran reporter and author whilst artist Vasja Koman is a Slovenian educated Illustrator and Melbourne resident.
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