Artists’ Black and White Ball
Black and White Ball D.H. Souter, who supervised the decorations for the 1923 artists’ ball, described it as a ‘jazz fantasy’. It was at this...
Category: Art
Hartt starter with brummy Dummy
Cecil Hartt: ARTIST AND SOLDIER Back In Australia after having been on military work abroad for more than three years, Cecil L. Hartt, the young...
Real appeal of Emile
Mercier’s single-panel newspaper cartoons of the 1950s and ’60s focused on daily life rather than current events. Journalist and poet Kenneth Slessor once observed that...
Jitterbugs
Human “Jitterbugs” Pose For Cartoons NOBODY ever knows what a jitterbug will do next. Even those masters of miracles, the Hollywood animated cartoonists, who can make pigs...
A Whiff of Jolliffe
Eric Jolliffe (1907 – 2001) – Australian cartoonist and Spearfisher. PARLIAMENT would work better if shifted to Bungendore show-ground. This is the conviction of Eric Jolliffe, the nation’s...
Bunter
The Story Of Billy Bunter Billy Bunter, dubbed by his companions at Greyfriars School ‘the Fat Owl of the Remove,’ but introduced by himself as...
Archie
With the 2018 Archibald Art Prize winner to be announced in a few days time, here’s excerpts from an article from 1952 about the man...
Plastic Man and Woozy Winks
Plastic Man is probably my favourite comic book character. Jack Cole created him for Quality’s ‘Police Comics’ Issue #1, in August 1941. Plastic Man...
Us Fellas
Jim Bancks first drew his “Us Fellers” comic strip in 1921 and changed its name to “Ginger Meggs” in 1939. It soon became Australia’s favourite comic strip...
Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Bluebeard’
Kurt Vonnegut has always been a favourite author of mine. I’m just finishing the final chapter of his novel ‘Bluebeard’ which, among myriad other story lines,...