Pussy Willow - Kam Taverner

Pussy Willow was a full page comic serial featured on the back page of Australian sex paper, Ribald, during the seventies. Scant information is available about these comics other than a copyright notice on one credited to Kam Taverner. The inclusion of a 'Modesty Blaise-esque' character and London setting would indicate these originated in England with Kam Taverner possibly being a pseudonym. Amazon UK has listings for three out of print Pussy Willow collections by Taverner, Pussy Willow and Doctor Libido, Pussy Willow on Lesbos, and Pussy Willow: Night of the Rats. (click pics to enlargen)

Ribald #35 March 2nd 1973

Ribald #53 July 11 1973

Ribald #30 Jan 26 1973

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.