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!
Newspaper Sports Cartoons - The Age
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.
Adventures of Tightrope Tim - Reg Hicks - Aug 28 1943
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.
