Showing posts with label noel cook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label noel cook. Show all posts

Monday, February 4, 2013

Noel Cook - Gag Cartoons


Noel Cook (1896-1981) Produced the following gag cartoons for the Australian Woman's Weekly during the late thirties and early forties. Cook was simultaneously producing painted illustrations for serials and adventure comics during this period. Cook's gag cartoons shared page space with his fellow expatriate Edward Brodie-Mack.

Noel Cook's Deed's That Thrilled Australia!

Noel Cook Pulp Illustrations.

Noel Cook biography and comic Adrift in Space.








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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Noel Cook Pulp Illustrations

 
After immigrating to Australia from New Zealand in the 1920's, Noel Cook was a prolific contributor to magazines, newspapers, and comics. Cook worked in a variety of styles, gag cartooning, adventure/humour comics, commercial artwork and painted illustration. The following illustrations accompanied short stories and serials in the  Australian Woman's Weekly during the 1930's.

Read Noel Cook's Adrift in Space here.
Read Noel Cook's Deeds That Thrilled Australia! here.














Source: trove.nla.gov.au,
© 2013 Estate of Noel Cook

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Noel Cook's Deeds that Thrilled Australia!

 
Deeds That Thrilled Australia! was an illustrated feature in the Australian Woman's Weekly that ran for fifteen weeks from it's first appearance on August 16 1941. Readers were encouraged to mail in their own wartime experiences and tales of unsung heroes to the magazine with a selection of them then vividly Illustrated by Noel Cook, a regular contributor of gag cartoons and painted illustrations to the Weekly.

November 22 1941

November 1 1941

November 15 1941
November 8 1941

October 25 1941

Deeds That Thrilled Australia © Estate of Noel Cook Source: trove.nla.gov.au

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Wartime Advertising

Australasian magazines and papers were laden with advertising during wartime urging the populace to support the war effort through various means. The selection below are from World War Two are from the Australian Woman's Weekly. Though uncredited, it is possible regular weekly illustrators Virgil ReillyWep, Noel Cook, Amandus Julius Fischer, Arthur Sharland Boothroyd, and  Wynn W Davies contributed to these campaigns.













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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Comics in Australian Advertising in the 1930's

Advertising featuring comic strips from 1930's Australian Woman's Weekly. Artist's are uncredited but possibly include Wep, Noel Cook, Amandus Julius Fischer, Arthur Sharland Boothroyd, and  Wynn W Davies who all contributed cartoons and illustrations to the magazine during this period.

 

 

 

 





Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Adrift In Space - Noel Cook Part Three of Three

Adrift In Space scans graciously supplied by Michael Baulderstone of the Adelaide Comic Centre. If you're in Adelaide swing by and pay him a visit he has a fantastic collection of Australian comics. Adrift in Space is undated but presumed to have been published in the mid 1940's.
Read part one here.
Read part two here. 












Adrift In Space Copyright 2012 Estate of Noel Cook