Saturday, May 25, 2013

Sticky Institute - New Comics


Melbourne's dedicated zine shop the Sticky Institute promoters of zine culture and stockists fine zines and small press comics have fresh supplies of Pikitia Press comics. Sticky have recently restocked kuš! anthologies and kuš! single artist titles. Several recent issues of John Porcellino's long running King Cat are also in stock. Get in there Melbourne comic folk and traveling comic folk make a point of visiting Sticky, shop 10 in Campbell Arcade, Degraves Subway. You can access it from the subway stairs on Flinders Street near Degraves Street.








Leonard Cornwall Mitchell


Leonard Cornwall Mitchell designing in his Wellington studio. Photographed by an Evening Post Staff photographer on the 20th of June 1970.

Some more examples of Leonard Mitchell's advertising and New Zealand tourism illustrations courtesy the Alexander Turnbull Library.


Robert Semple presenting a prize to Leonard Cornwall Mitchell, winner of a road safety sticker competition. The second prize winner B A Marris looks on. Behind the men, a page of 12 sticker designs is displayed on a bookcase. Photograph taken circa 6 December 1937, by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post.

Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971 :New Zealand for your next holiday. Issued by the New Zealand Government Publicity Office. Wholly printed in New Zealand by Coulls Somerville Wilkie Limited, Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland [ca 1925-1929]


Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971 :Mitre Peak, Milford Sound, New Zealand / Government Tourist Department.
 

[Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall], 1901-1971 :New Zealand Centennial Exhibition Wellington, Nov. 1939 - May 1940. [Sticker. 1939]

Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971 :Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand / Govt Tourist Dept. G H Loney, Government Printer, Wellington [1934-1937].
 
New Zealand Post Office Savings Bank :Your boy - look ahead a few years! / L C Mitchell. [1945?]


Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall 1901-1971 :Sport in New Zealand; trout and salmon fishing, big game fishing. [ca 1935].

  Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall 1901-1971 :Rotorua and New Zealand's thermal wonderland. [1930s].


Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971 :Haere mai! (Welcome) to New Zealand. [Booklet front cover. 1932?]


Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971 :Mt Egmont, 8,260 ft. New Zealand / Government Tourist Department. G H Loney, Government Printer, Wellington. [1934-1937]