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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Gully Foyle: The Best Science-Fiction Comic You Never Read - Part 2

The following is the second (and final) part of my revised and updated account the "Gully Foyle" comic-strip saga, which I originally wrote...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Vale - Alexander Stitt (1937-2016)

Alexander Stitt (OAM), the acclaimed Australian animator, graphic designer, and painter, died this week. He was best known for his televi...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Ledger of Honour 2019 - Stanley and Reginald Pitt

The Ledger Awards were launched in 2005 to formally recognize both outstanding new works by Australian comic book/graphic novel creators,...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Vale - Yaroslav Horak (1927-2020)

The Australian Cartoonists' Association announced on 25 November 2020 that acclaimed Australian comic-strip artist, Yaroslav Horak, had pas...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Norman Clifford's Aerial Adventures

Above : Norman Clifford, Melbourne 1959 Norman Clifford was one of many talented and enterprising Australian artists who created opportuniti...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Devil Doone - The French Connection?

I recently wrote a Facebook post to commemorate the centenary of the Australian comic artist, Hart Amos , who was born on December 2, 1916. ...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Recent Writings About Australian Comics (2017-2021)

One of the reasons why I have only made infrequent blog posts during the last 12-18 months is that I have been preoccupied with various acad...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: New Article on Romance Comics in Australia

I'm delighted to announce that my latest research on Australian comics appears in a new essay collection, The Popular Culture of Romantic ...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Gully Foyle: The Best Science-Fiction Comic You Never Read - Part 1

The following is a revised and updated version of the article I originally wrote for the long-expired PulpFaction.net website back in 2007. ...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Adam - The Magazine for (Real) Australian Men

My interest in the history of Australian comic books has led me to investigate other forms of popular Australian print media, such as "pulp-...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Antipodean Currents: Comic Art in Australia and New Zealand (Part 1)

I originally wrote 'Antipodean Currents' in 2016, after being commissioned to write a brief "layman's history" of comic art in Australian a...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Andrea Bresciani - Australian Artist on the World Stage

Andrea Bresciani - 1966 The following interview with Andrea Bresciani (1923-2006) was recorded by Giuseppe Trovato in February 1997. ...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: A Wartime Glimpse of Associated General Publications

Today I bought a second-hand copy of a book titled Australian Writers & Artists' Market , published by The Australasian School of Journali...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Paperboy, Collins Street, Melbourne 1957

This is a portrait of a paperboy in Collins Street, Melbourne, taken by photographer Mark Strizic . It was reproduced in a book of Strizic's...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: (Re)defining the History of Australian Comics

Queenie Chan, Australian manga artist NOTE: This blog entry is a modified version of a post I submitted to the "Australian Comics His...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Arthur Mather - Life with Captain Atom, and Beyond

NOTE: I was fortunate enough to interview Arthur Mather, co-creator of the Australian superhero, Captain Atom, at his Melbourne home in 200...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: The Phantom Ranger - See him in Giant Size Phantom!

I've had an article published in the recent edition of Giant Size Phantom comic (Number 2), released by Frew Publications (Australia). ...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Antipodean Currents: Comic Art in Australia and New Zealand (Part 2)

I originally wrote 'Antipodean Currents' in 2016, after being commissioned to write a brief "layman's history" of comic art in Australian an...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Who Controlled Australia's Comic Book Industry?

My previous blog post on Comics Down Under briefly mentioned an article by Rex Chiplin , appearing in the Tribune newspaper on 11 Novembe...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Self-Censorship in Australian Comic Books

Jo-Jo, Congo King Comic , No.5 - 1948 The year 1948 signaled the beginning of the comic-book "boom" in Australia, with dozens of new tit...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Ledger of Honour 2019 - Gerald Carr

The Ledger Awards were launched in 2005 to acknowledge excellence in Australian comic art and publishing. Named in honour of the expatria...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: World's Greatest Crime Smasher!

For many Australian comic-book fans growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, John Ryan's landmark book, Panel By Panel (1979), provided us with...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Planetary Republic of Comics - New Website

Planetary Republic of Comics is a new website curated by Frederick Luis Aldama , Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor, (Department...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Paul Wheelahan, Storyteller (1930-2018)

Paul Wheelahan, early 2000s I've written about Paul Wheelahan on numerous occasions over the last two decades, but having learned that ...

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30.11.2022

Comics Down Under: Antipodean Currents: The Evolution of Comics in Australia and New Zealand

Fatty Finn's Comic - Australia, late 1940s In 2012, I was asked to contribute a chapter to a then-forthcoming publication, titled A Glo...

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Comics Down Under: Gully Foyle: The Best Science-Fiction Comic You Never Read - Part 2

Comics Down Under: Vale - Alexander Stitt (1937-2016)

Comics Down Under: Ledger of Honour 2019 - Stanley and Reginald Pitt

Comics Down Under: Vale - Yaroslav Horak (1927-2020)

Comics Down Under: Norman Clifford's Aerial Adventures

Comics Down Under: Devil Doone - The French Connection?

Comics Down Under: Recent Writings About Australian Comics (2017-2021)

Comics Down Under: New Article on Romance Comics in Australia

Comics Down Under: Gully Foyle: The Best Science-Fiction Comic You Never Read - Part 1

Comics Down Under: Adam - The Magazine for (Real) Australian Men

Comics Down Under: Antipodean Currents: Comic Art in Australia and New Zealand (Part 1)

Comics Down Under: Andrea Bresciani - Australian Artist on the World Stage

Comics Down Under: A Wartime Glimpse of Associated General Publications

Comics Down Under: Paperboy, Collins Street, Melbourne 1957

Comics Down Under: (Re)defining the History of Australian Comics

Comics Down Under: Arthur Mather - Life with Captain Atom, and Beyond

Comics Down Under: The Phantom Ranger - See him in Giant Size Phantom!

Comics Down Under: Antipodean Currents: Comic Art in Australia and New Zealand (Part 2)

Comics Down Under: Who Controlled Australia's Comic Book Industry?

Comics Down Under: Self-Censorship in Australian Comic Books

Comics Down Under: Ledger of Honour 2019 - Gerald Carr

Comics Down Under: World's Greatest Crime Smasher!

Comics Down Under: Planetary Republic of Comics - New Website

Comics Down Under: Paul Wheelahan, Storyteller (1930-2018)

Comics Down Under: Antipodean Currents: The Evolution of Comics in Australia and New Zealand

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