Geared to unsheared beard
Two Hairy Subjects A BEARDED WOMAN In the Anthropological Exhibition recently held by Mr. J. B. Gassner, in Munich, was a bearded lady known as...
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The Raven
I’m not too sure about Edgar Allan Poe’s poem ‘The Raven’, but I am definitely captivated by Gustav Dore’s steel engraved illustrations in this 1884...
Beating around Busch
A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS — Shakespeare The greatest comic artist of the 19th century is the German, Wilhelm Busch. His innocent fun, based upon...
Tale of a tail
Caudal Appendage in Man Naturalists have up to the present time given little attention to the study of tailed men. Such an organ has simply...
Pillock, Parrot & Pussy Pound Pacific
William Willis A cat, a parrot and a grizzled 61-year-old American went to sea on a raft last Tuesday to cross the Pacific Ocean. They set out...
Sinister Molly Dookers
Molly Dooker Being left-handed has come a long way. These days it’s even considered the sign of a creative mind. Yet so many questions about...
Rub a dub grub
WITCHETTY HUNT Every Sunday, 30 people of Merbein, Victoria, go out into the bush along the Murray River and go “native.” After a picnic lunch...
Cyclorama
I was researching the Eureka Stockade in Ballaraat, 1854. (yes, it had 4 “a’s” then) and came across a pictorial phenomena I hadn’t been aware...
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...
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...