Another selection of children's reader illustrations by Conrad Freiboe. Freiboe was active as an illustrator for the New Zealand Ministry of Education during the 1940's -1960's and contributed to various New Zealand magazines during these decades.
Other work by Conrad Freiboe:
A founding member of the Society of Australian Black and White Artists, artist John Baird (1902-1988) originally created Pip and Emma with writer Nancy Thompson for Sydney newspaper Smith's Weekly.
One of Australia's longest running strips, May Gibbs’, Bib and Bub, first appeared in the Sunday News on 3 August 1924 and ran until 1967.
I wish I could present to you a chronological run of the eight years Reg E Hicks' Adventures of Tightrope Tim strip ran in the Sunbeams supplement (1941 - 1949) but alas I only have a spotty collection of installments mainly from the latter years of World War Two.
Created by Jimmy Bancks in 1921, Ginger Meggs is currently being celebrated in an exhibition at the Sydney Museum. The Ginger Meggs comic below featured in the children's four page Sunbeams supplement accompanying Melbourne paper The Sun News-Pictorial published 9th December, 1944.
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