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]

Friday, May 24, 2013

English Comics Diversion: Tip Top February 25th 1950









Leonard Cornwall Mitchell 1901-1971


Leonard Cornwall Mitchell (1901-1971) was born in Wellington and completed a signwriting apprenticeship in Palmerston North, before commencing work for the Government Publicity Department on tourism paraphenalia. Mitchell designed posters, booklet covers, coins and over 90 NZ stamps. Mitchell's son Victor Leonard William Mitchell (1925-1980) became an artist in his own right and was the owner of Wellington's mid century Lambton Art Galleries. The colour images below come from a tourism booklet that combined Mitchell's bold colour depictions with black and white photography showcasing early twentieth century New Zealand.





I found a couple examples of Mitchell's work as a cartoonist in the New Zealand edition of Aussie magazine dated June 14th 1924. The New Zealand edition of Aussie featured a New Zealand section edited by journalist Pat Lawlor who also edited a series of New Zealand Artist's annual that featured many of fine cartoonists of the era in the late 1920's/early 1930's. Other New Zealand cartoonists featured in Aussie included Noel Cook, Geoffrey Keith Townshend, Unk White, and George Duncan.









Grateful thanks to Geoff Harrison for supplying the Aussie Magazine images.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Paper Trail





Aaron Hawkins interviews Spencer Hall.


Melbourne launch for The Long weekend in Alice Springs at 8pm May 30th Readings, Carlton.


Nat Karmichael writes about the comics of his childhood and the 50th anniversay of the publication of John Dixon's Air Hawk.




Christian Pearce blog.




ENDLESS MANSION featuring Simon Hanselmann and HTML FLOWERS opens may 30th at galeria watdafac, Madrid, Spain. Pre-order catalogues here.



Danny Stanley comics.



Chromacon comic art competition winners.


Amy Louise Maynard reviews Mirranda Burton's Hidden.




 David C Mahler's My True Love (Not for Kiddies).


Good luck to Jason Chatfield this weekend hosting the 67th Annual Reuben Awards.

 
Elf-Fin Trailer.





Before they stuffed her in a yellow leotard and cat whiskers, Ruth Atkinson's creation, Patsy Walker was the star of popular teen comics. Here's a pile of Australia editions of Patsy Walker, all conforming to the A.G.P. teenage code of approved reading.










Paper Trail masthead courtesy of Toby Morris.