Thursday, January 30, 2014

Mandrake the Magician Cover Gallery

Feature Productions produced 222 issues of Mandrake the Magician from the late 1940's until the early 1960's. The Phantom, another creation of Falk is the only other New Zealand published comic to surpass Mandrake the Magician with 556 issues produced by Feature Productions.

Notes on New Zealand comics publisher Feature Productions and covers of first twenty issues of Mandrake the Magician .
Mandrake the Magician #20-#40
Mandrake the Magician #41- #60
Mandrake the Magician #61 - #80
Mandrake the Magician  #81 - #95
Mandrake the Magician #96 - #130

Selection of Mandrake the Magician cover #132 -  #160 featured below.





















John Santry Illustrations #3


Another selection of Australian cartoonist and illustrator John Santry (1910 - 1990) Illustrations from the Australian Woman's Weekly.


John Santry Illustrations #1 
John Santry Illustrations #2
John Santry newspaper strip The Conways with Betty Roland.










 

Source: http://trove.nla.gov.au/

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Te Pikitia tumblr

I'm aiming to be more active on Te Pikitia tumblr this year, trying to work through piles of material in Te Pikitia Archive. later in the year this blog will migrate to a site proper but in the meantime Te Pikitia blog will feature more text heavy posts & small galleries and Te Pikitia tumblr will focus on showcasing art. Here's a round up of recent tumblr posts.








 

Tuesday, January 28, 2014