Showing posts with label australian illustrator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label australian illustrator. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Des Condon


Des Condon illustrations from the Australian Woman's Weekly circa 1939-1942.










Source: http://trove.nla.gov.au/

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Parade Magazine Cover Gallery


Selection of covers from Australian magazine Parade published during the 1950's. Cover artists are largely uncredited although I believe the first 5 years were illustrated by Frank Stackpool with John L Curtis his successor. View previous parade magazine cover galleries here, here, and here.










Sunday, February 3, 2013

Phil Belbin


One of Australia's finest adventure comic illustrators, Phillip Bertram Johstone Belbin (1925-1993) produced a prolific output of work across K. G. Murray's stable of magazines and comics through the forties to the seventies. A quantity of Belbin's early work went unsigned (in particular paperback covers) and he was also known to use pseudonyms which included Humph, Fillini, Pittsburgh and Duke as well as his own name.


Read Belbin's Kath King - Diamonds of Death here.

Read a biography of Belbin by Greg Ray here.

Following illustrations and cartoons are from Man Junior magazine from 1950's - 1970's.

 










Source: http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/pbelbin.html, ACE biographical portraits : the artists behind the comic book characters : the Australian comic book exhibition, Melbourne State Library.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Nance Dobson

Selection of Illustrations by Nance Dobson from Western Australia newspaper The Countryman, 1927. Dobson contributed cartoons to Melbourne newspaper The Weekly Times and provided illustrations for a book of children's poems (1929) by Time's columnist Sonia Hardie.
 






 
 

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Virgil Reilly Illustrations

 Virgil Reilly

As well as making a significant contribution to Australian comics with his work on Silver Flash, Punch Perkins and The Invisible Avenger, Virgil Reilly was a prolific illustrator of magazines, books, and newspapers. Here's a sample of Reilly's work for the Australian Woman's Weekly.

Kevin Patrick at Comics Down Under has a profile of Reilly's career here.