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Sir Kaark the Crow Comic, July 1947
Sir Kaark the Crow is a children's comic strip that featured in the Sydney Morning Herald. Set in a medieval land of dragons, knights, wizards and a bad baron, it combined common medieval themes such as chivalry and gallantry with animal characters…
Sir Kaark the Crow
In this children's comic strip from the Sydney Morning Herald, the medieval themes of chivalry and gallantry are combined with anglicised Australian animal icons. In the comic, a dream is depicted in which Kaark the Crow imagines himself as a…
‘Eating the Leek’ (Henry V, Act V, Scene I), The Bulletin, 4 March 1893.
This political cartoon by ‘Hop’ enacts a scene from William Shakespeare’s historical play, Henry V. In the scene, Fluellen the Welshman angrily berates the unfortunate Pistol, a crony of Sir John Falstaff, and forces him to eat a…
‘Dam(n)pier as Mephistopheles’
‘Dam(n)pier as Mephistopheles,’ is The Bulletin cartoonist Phil May’s humorous pun on actor and theatrical entrepreneur Alfred Dampier’s name (See Louise D'Arcens, Old Songs in the Timeless Land: Medievalism in Australian…
St George Dry Cleaners, Perth
Image of St George Dry Cleaners at the St Georges Terrace end of Trinity Arcade in the Perth CBD. The wall of the premises features a humorous cartoon representation of St George in armour and carrying a shield mounted on his horse attacking a fire…
St. George Dry Cleaners, Perth, Western Australia
Images of St George Dry Cleaners at the St Georges Terrace end of Trinity Arcade in the Perth CBD. The wall of the premises features a humorous cartoon representation of St George in armour and carrying a shield mounted on his horse attacking a fire…
‘The Scaly Monster’
‘The Scaly Monster’ drawing shows an unruffled ‘Bloody Jack’ McElhone boarding a vessel embarking for England. This feisty Sydney alderman had a reputation for forthrightness and ‘fisticuffs,’ which was not always…