English Comics Daily Diversion: Chick's Own and Bubbles Jan 13th 1951

Happy 34th Birthday, Anthony Woodward

New Zealand Capping Magazines Gallery

University Capping magazines were published in New Zealand from the early decades of the twentieth century through to the last decades although to the best of my knowledge have now ceased publication. Each annual publication featured writing, illustration, cartoons, comics and photos with of a satirical nature. Neville Colvin, Tom Scott, Nevile Lodge, Sid Scales, and Bob Brockie were amongst many of New Zealand's finest cartoonists with work featured in capping magazines.

 

 

 

English Comics Daily Diversion: Chick's Own and Bubbles Jan 5th 1952

English Comics Daily Diversion: Chicks' Own Feb 23rd 1952

Comic Events

Second Shore and Pikitia Press will be tabling with a fine selection of Australian and New Zealand comics at the Federation Square Book Fair under the Atrium tomorrow from 11am - 5pm.

Tomorrow, Sat 23 March, All Star Comics in Melbourne launch Tom Taylor and James Brouwer's The Deep: The Vanishing Island. Facebook it.

A disparate combination of various Milk Shadow Books comic folk and the Australian writer of My little Pony, Ryan K Lindsay, are signing at Impact Comics in Canberra in the early morning and evening tomorrow. More details here. These creators and more will be at the CanberraZine Emporium from 11am - 4pm tomorrow as well. Facebook it.

Simon Hanselmann launches his Floating World Broadsheet St Owl's Bay at the Silent Army storeroom on March 27th. 

Simon says,

"Tell your friends"... presumably there will be a hotbed of local talent in attendance. a variety of beverages. free snax. maybe some "surprises". IDK. bitching, gossip, passionate rambling etc... "meet n greet". paranoia, social awkwardness.

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Graphic Novels! Melbourne! has an upcoming screening in Canberra on April 6. more details here.

 
Auckland has a new comics shop, Arkham City Comics, opening 1st April. More details here.

English Comics Daily Diversion: Playbox No. 1,073

The Story of Anzac Part One - Ray Wenban

The Story of ANZAC was part of an educational curriculum produced by the Schools Publishing House in Sydney, Australia, during the late 1950's. Each album in the series depicted significant events in Australian history and biographical portraits over 28 pages of comics enclosed in sturdy card covers.

From the interior cover,

The Australian Children's Pictorial Social Studies are the product of years of accumulated teaching experience in Australian schools.

The series are based on the Social Studies Curriculum of all Australian Education Departments. 

Some of Australia's best artists have been commissioned to translate this knowledge.

Careful attention has been given to the vocabulary used in each book and every effort made to grade the words and pictures to the child's understanding.

Each book tells a complete story of some important part of Australia's history.

Finally, our overall policy has been to fulfil the general basic aim of Social Studies teaching, namely, "...to increase the child's understanding of Historical, Geographical, and Social forces that have shaped...Australia."  

Three series of books were produced from 1958 with the first series consisting of 25 volumes that featured the artwork of Ray Wenban, Arthur Hudson, Montague Wedd, John Bates, Denis Grafton, William Gill, Gwendoline Barr-Rice, and Zdenek Stodulka. Later volumes featured work by cartoonists Peter Chapman and John L. Curtis.

Sources: K, Patrick 'In Search of the Great Australian (Graphic) Novel', Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 1: 1, pp. 51-66, doi: 10.1386/ajpc.1.1.51_1