Virgil Reilly Film Illustrations

 Virgil Reilly 1964

Amongst the prolific illustration work produced by Virgil Reilly during the twentieth century were film posters for newspaper advertising. The following Reilly illustrations featured in the Sydney Evening Standard during 1920.

Kevin Patrick wrote of Virgil Reilly's career in comics here.

Wartime illustrations by Virgil Reilly here.

Gallery of Reilly's painted illustrations for the Australian Woman's Weekly here.

Sample of Reilly's sequential work in Rocket Squadron #3 (Red Circle Press, 1952)

Sources: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/, Drawing From life - Vane Lindesay (State Library of New South Wales,1994)

English Comics Diversion: More Men Only

Another gallery of Men Only Covers from the late forties - early fifties. All featuring distinctive caricature covers produced by Irish cartoonist Edward Sylvester Hynes (1872 - 1982).

Previous Men Only cover gallery here.

Selection of Ian Dickson's Men Only cartoons here.

Kolynos Dental Cream - Australian Advertising

Kolynos dental cream ads featured in Australian newspapers and magazines in the 1940's with comic illustrations and format similar to the syndicated Ripley's Believe or Not panel strip of unusual facts. For the Kolynos adverts the unusual facts all relate to teeth. The Kolynos line of oral care products was created by N.S. Jenkins in 1908 and sold worldwide, eventually to be bought out by Colgate-Palmolive in 1995. Although no artists are credited on these ads, I'm fairly certain they were produced in Australia as Kolynos advertising campaigns for print and television were created in many countries including New Zealand  and Australia.

 

Click images below for Australian Kolynos television adverts circa 1945.

Examples of American Kolynos comic strip advertising

 

Another example of Kolynos advertising through comics in America was the Whitehall Pharmacal Company published , Kolynos Presents the White Guard, in 1949. The White Guard tells the story of man's efforts to protect his teeth from disease and decay.

Sources: http://aso.gov.au/ , http://trove.nla.gov.au/, http://www.flickr.com/photos/christianmontone/sets/ , http://www.mycomicshop.com

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.
 

 

 

Masskerade 70 - Emergency Ward

 
An uncredited three page comic from 1970 Massey capping magazine Masskerade 70. Likely a satirical take on British television soap opera Emergency - Ward 10 (1954-1967) which featured in it's own comic series from Pearson, illustrated by Eric Dadswell. The back cover exemplifies the irreverent nature of capping magazines and their satirical take on government, religion, society and their own faculties.

Peter Foster at Melbourne Writers Festival 2012

Peter Foster talks with Bernard Caleo at the Skinny Arse comics launch about For The Term of His Natural Life at the 3 minute mark in this video courtesy of Dark Matter Fanzine.

Virgil Reilly War Illustrations

Wartime illustrations by Virgil Reilly for the No Man's Land Column in the Australian Woman's Weekly late 1939 - early 1940.

Funtime Comics

Christchurch comics collective Funtime Comics have sent their latest anthology to the printers with contributors from across New Zealand and abroad. Issue #26 Zines, Zines, Music Hall Fruits sports a cover by Lee-Yan Marquez and comes almost two years after the previous issue. Artist's featured in this issue are: Ned Wenlock, Bob McMahon, Jason Franks Mike Athey, Daniel Brader, Ari Freeman, Debra Boyesk, Isaac Freeman, Marc Barnes, Tessa McLaughlin, Kurt Lewis, David Piper, Tim Danko and Steve Saville.

Check Funtime's Facebook for more details and information about regular drawing workshops in Christchurch hosted by Funtimes Editor Isaac Freeman.