Pikitia Press Blog: 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.