Selection of comic strips from a Herald Sun Comic Supplement from the seventies. Featuring a selection of syndicated American strips as well as Australian comics strips and the long running adventure strip, Air Hawk, by John Dixon.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
The Sun-Herald Comic Supplement Jan 30 1977
Selection of comic strips from a Herald Sun Comic Supplement from the seventies. Featuring a selection of syndicated American strips as well as Australian comics strips and the long running adventure strip, Air Hawk, by John Dixon.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
More Kolynos Toothpaste Advertising
Syd Miller's Red Gregory and The Little People
I wrote about Kolynos Dental Cream advertising here, suggesting their print campaign was likely the work of an Australian cartoonist. Comics Historian Kevin Patrick has suggested it may have been the work of Syd Miller who produced an early fantasy series for Smith's Weekly, Red Gregory and the Little People, which was collected as two comic books in the 1940's. Stylistically the work on Red Gregory is very similar to the Kolynos advertisements. Miller also had a strong record in doing comic strip advertisements, most notably as co- creator of "Chesty Bond", in the mid-late 1930s. Kevin suggested Miller as a the likely artist, "... Based on similarity of linework, depiction of curvaceous women, etc."
Syd Miller's Fatty Finn's Comic
Red Gregory and The Little People Page 5
In response to a suggestion from myself about the disparity between lettering/calligraphy styles in Red Gregory and the Little People and Kolynos work, Kevin commented, "The quality of lettering/calligraphy would have to have been of higher standard for a business advertisement client like Kolynos. Comic books/strips would have been a nice sideliner earner for Nicholls, no doubt, but wouldn't have paid as much as advertising work, I suspect."
Red Gregory and the Little People comic circa 1940's
Red Gregory and The Little People Page 4
Samples of Kolynos advertisements from the Australian Woman's Weekly
Red Gregory images sourced from the Rare Books Collection, Monash University Library (Melbourne, Australia) [http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/
More Ernest Heber Thompson Cartoons From The Sketcher
I previously wrote about the work of Ernest H Thompson here.
From The New Zealand Truth 6 June 1914 a review of the third issue of The Sketcher produced by Dunedin cartoonist Ernest H Thompson.
Artist Thompson has just published no. 3 of "The Sketcher," a casual, but worthy, album of clever caricatures of Dunedin's dour denizens embellished by various verse and pointed prose. The elusive ads have been well snared and arranged artistically, and should easily pay the printer's bill. We have not previously seen much of E. H. Thompson's black and white, but the present number reveals a prospective Phil May.
Ernest H Thompson illustrated advertising form the back cover of the Sketcher #2
From the New Zealand Truth issue 546, 4 December 1915 an article on Ernest Heber Thompson departing New Zealand to serve in World War Two.
For The Front
On Thursday of last week Mr Ernest H. Thompson, the well known and highly-popular Dunedin artist, left with the 10th reinforcements for Trentham, where he is now undergoing war training, preparatory to tackling "the real thing". Mr. Thompson, though quite a young man, is one of Dunedin's most talented artists. In all-round black and white, and especially caricature, Mr Thompson easily leads in the far southern capital. His spicy, hard-hitting magazine, "The Sketcher" will be missed. No spasmodic critic was ever more welcomed. With a brimming future before him, and endowed with talent and youth, Mr. Thompson has risked all to serve his King and country on one of the far-flung battlefields where Britain's tattered but waving banners flutter defiantly in the teeth of a hostile gale. At great personal sacrifice he has torn himself from his parents home and assured prosperity 'to do his bit'. May luck and glory attend him. "Truth" knew him well and appreciated his work, and trusts it shall be our duty to add a leaf to the laurel circlet that shall await the return of the conquering soldier-artist.
Source: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Betty Roland - Girl Comic
A couple pages from serialised strips in 1950s English comic Girl written by Australian writer Betty Roland and illustrated by her frequent collaborator Dudley Pout.
Samples of other Roland written strips for Girl,
The Conways and Angela and the Runaway Heiress
The Purple Pagoda
The Rajah's Secret
Vicky and the Painted Emperor
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
Monday, January 7, 2013
Paper Trail
Roger Langridge shares a comic for his daughter's tenth birthday. The Popeye series Langridge is currently writing for IDW will be concluding with the twelfth issue. Langridge has also set a goal to post a comic or illustration on his blog daily for 2013 so keep an eye on frequent updates at Hotel Fred.
Steve Holland serialised a John McNamara illustrated Paul Temple strip over at Bear Alley over December, first episode here.
From late 2012, Daniel Best at 20th Century Boy, ran a fascinating series of articles on Australian comics and comics in Australia.
Sarah Laing dissects the making of a book cover.
Brandon Graham teases a forthcoming Fil Barlow wraparound cover for Prophet #33
Bob Temuka at the Tearoom of Despair writes about Murray Ball's Footrot Flats.
Josh Santospirito is interviewed by Framed magazine here.
Tim McEwen reviews Chris Downes The Littel Dragun.
© Evening News courtesy Bear Alley
Holland's Bear Alley Books has announced their latest publication, a 262 page Index and history of the Almalgamated Press/IPC comic Lion. Pre-orders available here.
From late 2012, Daniel Best at 20th Century Boy, ran a fascinating series of articles on Australian comics and comics in Australia.
Comics or Classics?
Samples of the work of Tom Glover, at one time heralded as New Zealand's leading cartoonist. I'll have a feature on Glover's work on the Pikitia blog next week.
Tom Glover's Skeeter and his Magic Ring from Sydney Sunday Sun circa 1930's.
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