Fashion Plate Fannie - Will Donald

Whilst researching Will Donald for the forthcoming The Cartoons of Will Donald I wanted to get a sample of his newspaper strip Fashion Plate Fannie (1923-1931) and managed to track down a children's supplement (Star Twinkles) for the Auckland Star with Donald's strip filling half a tabloid page. I was also handed a couple dozen isolated clipped panels of Fashion Plate Fannie, clipped from the disintegrating papers. Fashion Plate Fannie is notable as one of the few Australian strips featured in New Zealand newspapers alongside May Gibbs' Tiggy Touchwood, Jimmy Bancks' Us Fellers, and Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat.

Each isolated panel below is from a different week's installment of Fashion Plate Fannie.

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Australia Today

Australia Today was published annually by the United Commercial Travellers Association of Australia as a supplement to it's monthly newspaper The Australian Traveller and distributed throughout the Commonwealth. Australia Today was used as a promotional tool to encourage British immigration to Australia. The United Commercial Travellers Association of Australia was founded in its federated form in 1895 to look after commercial travelers in regards to travel and accommodation needs and advice to overseas manufacturers with commercial interests in Australia.

Harry Julius Animation, Sketches, and Comics

Featured below are a collection of artifacts from the estate of Ruth Julius, daughter of Australia's first animator Harry Julius who was also an active cartoonist in the early twentieth century. Original trial/deployment drawings and watercolours by Harry Julius for We Little People, a proposed cartoon strip which became Smiler, c1920s. Also examples of Julius’ newspaper cartoons, Mr Gink and Happy Days.

Example of Harry Julius animation, Cartoons of the Moment by Harry Julius (1915)

Click image below to view Harry Julius animation, Cartoons of the Moment - The Crown Prince of Death (1915).