Marc Brody Cover Gallery One
Crime reporter Marc Brody was the author and star of a series of pulpy crime thrillers published in Australia during the 1950s. W. H. Williams was the actual author of Marc Brody, a pseudonym, Williams was also a journalist, and Editor, for Australian tabloid newspaper The Truth. Williams produced about 80 Marc Brody adventures written in his garden shed over a 15 year period.
I'm unclear whether the back cover portrait of Marc Brody was actually author Bill Williams or stand in.
Stanley John Joseph Pitt (2 March 1925 - 2nd April 2002)
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.
