Vumps Stumped
“Vumps” has been proclaimed as Australia’s “first comic book” – published in Sydney in 1908. Unfortunately it didn’t survive beyond the first issue, despite high...
The Full Quid Blog
To Marquet to draw a Fat Pig
CLAUDE MARQUET A SKETCH OF A GREAT CARTOONIST’S CAREER Gone from this earth for evermore Claude Marquet, The Worker’s official cartoonist, and undeniably one of...
Spate of great bookplate
Ex Libris When I moved my abode from house to boat a year ago, one of the most difficult decisions was how do “rationalise” a...
Unshackle Haeckel
While researching chimera (after Max Klinger) I stumbled across…. Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834 – 1919) There is much written about Ernst Haeckel in regards to...
Toast to the Posts
The humble ‘big sticks’ i.e. the tall thin things at each end of a footy ground through which the footy must be propelled to score...
Linger on Klinger
Max Klinger [1857-1920] As long as the eyes and the stomach are well served, one is rich (…) The magic of the picture lies in...
Drawn On Redon
Odilon Redon [1840 – 1916] My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of...
Bombs Away
I wonder if this spread about the effects of bombs helped people in the UK at all in 1938 when it was published – or...
Bluegum and Rumpus Bumpus
When koala Bunyip Bluegum first leaves home due to his Uncle’s whiskers; he can’t decide whether becoming a ‘Traveller’ or a ‘Swagman’ would suit him...
Proclamation
Cartoon: From the Italian cartone. The concept originated in the Middle Ages and first described a preparatory drawing for a piece of art, such as a painting...
Thanks Bancks
J. C. BANCKS : CREATOR OF “GINGER MEGGS” IT is doubtful whether comic artists are really indispensable to society. Their passion for inflicting disorganised noses...
Word Of The Day #5
shicer noun AUSTRALIAN/NZ; informal; dated a worthless thing or person, especially a swindler MINING: an unproductive claim or mine. ….With the hot winds whirled...