Sydney cartoonist George Aria was a regular contributor from the first issue of the ABC Weekly published 2 December 1939. As well as his regular silent comic strip Mr Tutt he produced gag cartoons and illustrations.
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Reg E Hicks' Adventures of Tightrope Tim strip ran in the Sunbeams supplement from 1941 to 1949 and to the best of my knowledge was one of the strips that carried through the paper shortage years when the supplement was reduced to a single folded piece of paper. Look at the four colour intensity! The quickly dashed off plate printed off register four colour seperations!
Yaroslav Horak working on the Cop Shop newspaper strip adapted from the Australian television show.
Another Mike Steel Desert Rider instalment from Australian magazine Woman’s Day by Yaroslav Horak and Roger Rowe. Mike Steel Desert Rider ran for almost a decade in Woman’s Day during the 1960’s.
Nils Josef Jonsson, originally from Sweden and via a few years in New Zealand, settled in Australia in 1918. He became a prolific Australian cartoonist working for Smith’s Weekly from 1924 until it closed in 1950. Jonsson was best known for Uncle Joe’s Horse Radish which appeared in colour for many of the years it ran (1951 - 1963) and was syndicated across Australia. This strip featured in the Christmas Sun Children’s Supplement of 1954.
A two panel comic, Benjamin Bear by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite as featured in Melbourne newspaper the Weekly Times from 18 February 1933 until 2 September 1939. Unceremoniously Benjamin Bear was replaced mid story by American export Tim Tyler. This instalment is from July 10th 1937.
Additional info provided by Outhwaite aficionado Andrew N.
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