Cremoata Cards - Space Adventure Album 1967 Series - Part One

It's Queens Birthday weekend and I have ten thousand things to do but in an effort to keep sharing something daily, here are a couple galleries of space adventure cards from a New Zealand Creamoata album produced in 1967. Cereal albums were still common when I was a kid in the late seventies, cereal boxes and bags would contain a few cards that you could collect and place in a themed album. I don't know anything about the artwork on these cards but presume it may be one of the New Zealand commercial illustrators Darian Zam has covered at Long White Kid.

Darian has written an extensive article of the origins of the company that produced Cremoata products in New Zealand: The Bugle Boy of Company F: Creamoata and Sergeant Dan.

Behold the glorious colours of space travel and stream lined rocket technology, pre-moon landing, as depicted by a New Zealand artist in 1967!

Canterbury University Capping Mag Covers - 1960s

University Capping magazines alongside University magazines themselves were a point where many New Zealand cartoonists saw their first work published. Student cartoonists featured in Capping magazines during the 1960's and 1970's published radical material far outside the guidelines of mainstream publishing. Some of this work was insightful political and social commentary, some was misogynist, xenophobic and politically incorrect by modern society's standards. The gallery below displays covers from the University of Canterbury Capping magazines of the 1960's.

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The Home Magazine - Gallery

The Home An Australian Quarterly

An article in The Brisbane Telegraph, 27th March 1922, wrote of the launch of The Home magazine:

The directors of this new magazine announce that it is a definite attempt to serve, in one good Australian publication, a useful purpose which is achieved elsewhere by many good foreign publications— and that purpose may be stated as keeping readers well informed in matters of domestic taste. The architecture of homes, large and small, has its due place, and then come practical illustrations of Interior decorations. The cult of dress is not to be omitted (how could it be when you are dealing with the real home ?) and something good in the way of fashions from Paris, Lon don, and New York is provided. "All the arts which subserve the art of living will come within our scope." So say the directors. If there is an art of living, there must be many arts subserving it; and, beyond doubt, if the first number of "The Home" is a criterion, those subservient arts are not, merely useful, but productive of great beauty. Probably the very title of this new publication explains better what the directors aim at than thousands of words. All that need be said Is that "The Home" bids fair to live up to the hopes of its directors; "it will adopt a standard of its own, living solely for Australian needs." After all, we might just as well know of what Australia is capable in the way of building and beautifying homes.