Stop Laughing, This Is Serious!: The Life and Work of Stan Cross 1888-1977 - Couverture rigide

Lindesay, Vane

 
9780522849806: Stop Laughing, This Is Serious!: The Life and Work of Stan Cross 1888-1977
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ISBN 10 : 0522849806 ISBN 13 : 9780522849806
Editeur : Melbourne University Press, 1997

Synopsis

The black-and-white art of Stan Cross, cartoonist and comic-strip creator, was known and loved throughout Australia for over fifty years. The creator of Wally and the Major and The Potts, his most famous work is the cartoon 'For gorsake, stop laughing: this is serious!' Stan Cross was born in 1888 in Los Angeles but he grew up in Perth and at the age of twenty-four travelled to London, where he studied drawing at St Martin's School of Art. In 1919 the radical popular magazine Smith's Weekly was founded in Sydney and Stan Cross was an instant staff member, creating the first comic strip in Australia, You and Me, which soon became The Potts. Stan drew 'For gorsake, stop laughing: this is serious!' for the 29 July 1933 edition of Smith's Weekly. The cartoon was so popular that all through the Depression years prints were framed and hung on walls in offices, factories, hotel bars and barbers' shops. Stan joined the Herald in Melbourne in 1939 where he created the Wally and the Major series. Stop Laughing, This is Serious contains 140 classic images from Stan Cross's oeuvre, and sets his life in the context of the remarkable history of black-and-white art and cartooning in Australia

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À propos de l?auteur

Vane Lindesay is a Melbourne artist, writer and book designer with a lifelong interest in Australian black-and-white art. His seven previous books include The Inked-in Image: A social and historical survey of Australian comic art (1979) and Drawing From Life: A history of the Australian Black & White Artists' Club (1994).

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Éditeur
Melbourne University Press
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0522849806
ISBN 13 
9780522849806
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
108
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