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Grand Years 22 August 2024
Cartoonists on parade: It’s moments like these you need....
You can draw a cartoon on anything - anything!
A-n-y-t-h-i-n-g! You don’t have to be a good cartoonist or a bad cartoonist, to produce a drawing that makes people double-up with laughter. They believe it’s witty or even funny. Getting the cartoon published; that’s a different story. John (“O’Neal”) Neal, the creator of Cabbie, was an expert in “making people laugh”.
Neal drew the popular Bluey and Curly strip for a weekend newspaper so he knew what that meant. “These people live in a comic strip so they know.” Two of his characters, Stubby n’ Suds, are an example, of “do not attempt to push any message or philosophy.” Read and study his work and laugh and forget your hassles.
His first regularly published cartoon comment on Australian life - Bert the Board’s Man. The inhabitants of the comic strip “quickly attained a Goonish lunacy.” The strip was nominated for a Walkley Award, Australian journalism’s Oscar. << John (“O’Neal”) Neal in this column soon.
Oz Spots: Cars we love
Cord has sleekness and power-plus!
MADE BY THE AUBURN AUTO COMPANY, THE CORD RANGE OF SUPERB VEHICLES WAS THE EPITOME OF THE ART DECO MOVEMENT. IN 1936, THE CORD 810 IS OFTEN NICKNAMED THE “COFFIN NOSE,” IT WAS UNMATCHED WITH ITS AERODYNAMIC STYLE, WITH THE SUGGESTION OF BEING ABLE TO SLIP THROUGH THE AIR EASILY. THE CORD WAS AS ‘MODERN AS TOMORROW.’ IN HOLLYWOOD, CECIL B. DEMILLE AND CARY GRANT WERE HIGH-PROFILE DRIVERS. – FM.
It's moments like these you need …
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