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In addition to the comic strips drawn by Joan Lintott and Nan Fullarton there were two by Anne Drew HERE, and another, An Adventure in Nursery land, was written by Muriel Olyott and illustrated by Walter Cunningham.
Showing posts with label Australian Comic Strips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australian Comic Strips. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Aladdin and Alice
In addition to the comic strips drawn by Joan Lintott and Nan Fullarton there were two by Anne Drew HERE, and another, An Adventure in Nursery land, was written by Muriel Olyott and illustrated by Walter Cunningham.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Gale of the "Gundagai"
It's 1947 and the war in the Pacific is over. Who are the madmen setting off small nuclear explosions on the island? Gale of the "Gundagai" and his crew are determined to find out!
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Adventures of Billy Koala
The Adventures of Billy Koala began in the Sydney Sun Herald's Playtime magazine supplement for kids then moved up to the comic supplement where he slowly eveolved into a human character. Even as a human Billy bore an offputting resemblance to the tree-climbing marsupial.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Playtime Comic Strips 1946
The Sun Herald's Playtime supplement featured Red Ryder, Dickie Dare by Odin, and the Burne Hogarth and Reuben Moreira Tarzan strips from America. Among the homegrown works were many by women cartoonists, mostly nursery type comics.
More Australian Comic Strips
In 1946 the Sun Herald boasted on its masthead that the newspaper was in it's 116th year of publication. The top strip, Shaggy, by Gould, from July 4, 1945, featured a comical dog. In 1946 staff cartoonist Eyre Jr. was the most prolific of the home-grown comickers. Eyre Jr. drew The Types, editorial cartoons, and ads for Kellog's Corn Flakes. Three daily strips from America were featured, Penny by Haenigson, Mr. & Mrs., and Vic Flint. Penny would be displayed on the front page of the Sunday comic supplement for many years, a very popular comic down under.
I always think long and hard about posting racial cartoons, and most often end up deleting such posts, but in some cases History trumps my sensitivities and I feel something is important enough to take notice, thus Bosun and Choklit. In this case Choklit was not the only aboriginal character to appear in comics as you will see in further posts.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Wartime Ads of Australia
I have never seen so many comic strip style ads in my life as appeared during WWII in Australia. The ad agencies must have been under instruction to tie in everything from soup to nuts to the war effort. These samples are selected from the year 1943.
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