Australian cartoonist/illustrator Stanley Pitt was born today in 1925.
More Fashion Plate Fannie - Will Donald
Another selection of isolated panels from Will Donald's Fashion Plate Fannie, publisher in the Auckland Star circa 1930's.
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.
Oswald Pryor (15 February 1881- 13th June 1971)
Australian Cartoonist Oswald Pryor was born today at Moonta Mines, South Australia in 1881.
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.
