Newspaper Sports Cartoons - The Age

16th April 1937

26th April 1937

6th Jan 1937

24th March 1937

Sports cartoons from Melbourne newspaper The Age published in 1937. I’m not sure who the cartoonist is, the signature is a little indistinct but I suspect it is the work of Reg Hicks an émigré from England in 1921 who had worked for the Argus prior to starting at the Age in 1937. Initially in 1937 Hicks was contributing juvenile strips for the children’s section, Betty and Bob See The World and Willy and Wally, before moving onto adventure strips which included the 100 page serialised epic The Space Patrol.

Devil Doone - The Beauty Snatchers - R.Carson Gold & Hart Amos

Devil Doone comic, The Beauty Snatchers by co-creator R. Carson Gold and longtime Doone artist Hart Amos. The Devil Doone Comic series published by K G Murray reprinted stories originally featured in Man Junior magazine.

World's News - Maurice Bramley Covers

Examples of New Zealand born cartoonist/illustrator Maurice Bramley (1898 - 1975) covers for long running Australian magazine World’s News.

Adventures of Tightrope Tim - Reg Hicks - Aug 28 1943

Reg E Hicks' Adventures of Tightrope Tim strip ran in the Sunbeams supplement from 1941 to 1949 and to the best of my knowledge was one of the strips that carried through the paper shortage years when the supplement was reduced to a single folded piece of paper.

Mike Steel Desert Rider - Roger Rowe & Yaroslav Horak - August 16 1965 Woman's Day

An Instalment from the Mike Steel serial that ran for almost a decade in the Australian magazine Woman’s Day during the 1960’s. By 1965 artist Yaroslav had immigrated to England where he would take over art duties on the James Bond newspaper strip the following year. I presume most of his Mike Steel art was created in the UK and mailed over to Sydney.