Sydney cartoonist George Aria was a regular contributor from the first issue of the ABC Weekly published 2 December 1939. As well as his regular silent comic strip Mr Tutt he produced gag cartoons and illustrations.
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6 Jan 1940
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20 Jan 1940
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. Look at the four colour intensity! The quickly dashed off plate printed off register four colour seperations!
Nils Josef Jonsson, originally from Sweden and via a few years in New Zealand, settled in Australia in 1918. He became a prolific Australian cartoonist working for Smith’s Weekly from 1924 until it closed in 1950. Jonsson was best known for Uncle Joe’s Horse Radish which appeared in colour for many of the years it ran (1951 - 1963) and was syndicated across Australia. This strip featured in the Christmas Sun Children’s Supplement of 1954.
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.
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9th Dec 1939
16th Dec 1939
23rd Dec 1939
30th Dec 1939
6th Jan 1940
13 Jan 1940
9 Dec 1939
9 Dec 1939
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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.
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