History

At first Australian comics copied British comic papers until its first comic book The Kookaburra appeared in 1931.

Several early uniquely Australian comics had wide circulation and enjoyed long runs. Probably the most famous is the comic strip Ginger Meggs, created in 1921 by Jimmy Bancks which still runs in syndication to this day (with new artists, of course). Bancks published the first of the Ginger Meggs Annuals in 1924, and they were to continue for the next 35 years. For a more recent example, Dillon Naylor's Da 'n Dill has been running in one form or another since 1993. This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Ginger Meggs is a very long-running Australian cartoon about the escapades of the title character, a red-haired pre-pubescent boy of considerable talent for mischief. ... James Charles Bancks, or Jimmy Bancks (1889-1952) was an Australian cartoonist who is best known for having created and orginally drawn the famous Australian boy, Ginger Meggs for the Sunday Sun and Sun News-Pictorial. ... Dillon Naylor (1968-), is a cartoon artist and toy designer. ...

Because of its contribution to winning the Second World War, Australia incurred a huge national debt: local publishers found they had a captive market as import restrictions were enforced, at the same time the modern American style comic book (mostly sans color) was adopted. In its Golden Age Australian talent produced exciting creations such as Captain Atom, The Panther, The Scorpion, The Raven, The Mask and many others. Later, in the Seventies, Vixen became Australia's first comic book super heroine. However, the longest best-selling and longest running comic book in Australia is a local fortnightly publication of The Phantom by Frew Publications. First published in 1948 more than 1500 issues have been released in the series. Although mostly reprints, the comic does occasionally include original work by local creators. Superman, catalyst of the Golden Age: Superman #14 (Feb. ... Captain Atom is a fictional comic book superhero. ... The Scorpion (Macdonald Mac Gargan) is a fictional supervillain in the Spider-Man comic book. ... The Raven as illustrated by Gustave Doré. The Raven is a narrative poem by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. ... The Mask originated as comic book series by publisher Dark Horse Comics. ... Vixen can refer to: A female fox, or A shrewish, ill-tempered or spiteful woman; a virago An attractive woman Vixen (band), an all-female rock and roll band from the 1980s Another rock and roll band formed in 1982 featuring Marty Friedman (guitarist). ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... A fortnight is a unit of time equal to two weeks: that is 14 days, or literally 14 nights. ... The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. ... Frew Publications publishes Lee Falks The Phantom comic in Australia, and formerly published other comics including Falks earlier creation Mandrake the Magician. ...

Since the 1940's, and particularly in the 1970's, many local reprints and translations of English, European and both North and South American comics were published in Australia. Since the 1980's there have been fewer local reprints and more direct importing of foreign comics.

Alongside the reprints and imports there has been a long tradition of Australian made comics, though many of these were clones of, or occasionally parodies of, foreign, mostly US, comic books. After the arrival of television in 1956 the market began to dry up causing many publishers to fold, by the early Sixties the comic industry faded. Gerald Carr revived the Australian adventure style comic book in 1974 with the best selling Vampire! during the horror comic boom, followed by Brainmaster and Vixen (1977} and Fire Fang {1982). Gerald P. Carr is a retired United States Marine Corps Colonel and former NASA astronaut. ...

In the mid 1980's many anthology comics titles appeared, forming the basis for the modern Australian self-publishing community. Three notable ones were Fox Comics, which began in Melbourne in 1985 and lasted for 5 years and 26 issues. Phantastique from Sydney in 1986 lasted only 4 issues, as it was in the style of Underground comix but with mainstream distribution - it generated national publicity from opponents Fred Nile and John Laws. Cyclone! also from Sydney in 1985 was a more traditional superhero comic with an Australian flavour, it ran for 8 issues as an anthology and then another 8 as Southern Squadron focusing on its most popular feature (plus other spin offs and a 1990's revival - over 30 related comics were published in the series). Mr. ... Frederick John Nile (born 15 September 1934), Australian politician and clergyman, is a member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, Australia. ... Richard John Sinclair Laws, better known as John Laws, CBE (born 8 August 1935) is a prominent and controversial radio presenter in Australia, whose mellifluous voice earned him the nickname the Golden Tonsils. Since the 1970s Laws has hosted a hugely successful morning radio program, which mixes music with interviews... Cyclone! was an Australian superhero anthology comic book originally published in the 1980s. ... For the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode, see Super Hero (Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode). ...

Other long running popular Australian comic books include Hairbutt the Hippo (1989) and Platinum Grit (1993), which are still being published by their creators today. Hairbutt an anthropomorphic hippopotamus private detective who appears in comic books published in Australia. ... Platinum Grit is an Australian self-published comic book. ...

Australian comic book publishers

The current comic scene in Australia is driven by self publishers who create, print and distribute their own books, there are a few publishers who will publish the work of others

• Dee Vee Press
• Down Under Comics
• Foolproof Comics
• Generation
• Gestalt Comics
• Local Act Comics
• Oztaku
• Phosphorescent Comics

Australian editorial cartoonists

• Peter Broelman
• Jason Chatfield
• Andrew Dyson
• George Haddon
• William Hogarth
• Judy Horacek
• Mark Knight
• Allan Langoulant
• Bill Leak
• Michael Leunig
• Neil Matterson
• Peter Nicholson
• Bruce Petty
• Paul Rigby
• Stuart Roth
• D H Souter
• John Spooner
• Ron Tandberg
• Andrew Weldon
• Cathy Wilcox

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Awards

• From 1984 to 1999, The Stanley Awards (run by the Australian Cartoonists' Association) had a separate category for Adventure /Illustrated Strip Artist. Since then, this has been merged with the Comic Strip Cartoonist category.

• The OzCon Awards were also an important recognition of Australian comic creators from their inception in 1991, until the OzCons ceased.

• The Ledger Awards were created in 2004 by Gary Chaloner in honour of famed Australian artist Peter Ledger to recognize excellence in Australian comic art and publishing.

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24 Hour Comics Challenge

Each year on the Queen's Birthday weekend, a 24 hour comics challenge [1] is held at Pulp Faction. The challenge moved there when OzComics closed shop in 2004. The event gathers some of the best Australian comic talent in a frenzy of art (past winners have included Nate Soehardi, Doug Holgate, Jase Harper, and Michael Li), and has categories for 8, 16 and 24 page comics, both general and mature. In Jersey the Lieutenant-Governor hosts a reception for the public at Government House to mark the Queens Official Birthday at which he announces recipients of Birthday Honours The Queens Birthday or Queens Official Birthday is celebrated as a public holiday in several Commonwealth countries (usually Commonwealth...

Forums

With the advent of online forums, the Australian community has found the way to join its disparate areas. The OzComics forums started by Darren Close, creator of Killeroo was very popular in its day, along with the Comics Australia forums and site. After their closing, the Pulp Faction forums were created by Maggie McFee and have become the dominant online forum for Australian creators and fans. Recently, with the emerging popularity of the Manga genre of comics in Australia, OzTAKU created a forum for Australian artists and fans of the Manga genre, regardless of whether or not they are printed with OzTAKU in its publishing capacity. Killeroo is the first episode of The Mighty Boosh. ... OzTAKU is an informal media group based in Melbourne, Australia. ...

Conventions

• The first true Australian Comic Convention was Comicon I (1979) held at RMIT in Melbourne. Comicon II (1980) followed at the Sheraton Hotel in Melbourne and Comicon III (1981) was held in Sydney.

• The much larger Australian Comic-Book Convention, was held on 16th-18th January 1986, at the Sydney Opera House, featuring international guests for the first time including Will Eisner and Jim Steranko. It was the forerunner of the many later OzCon conventions held from 1992 to 1998 in Sydney, with an additional event in Melbourne in 1997, and the comicfest! events, again in Sydney from 2000 to 2002, before the concept was expanded into...

• Supanova, Australia's largest con. Held in Sydney and Brisbane each year since 2002 and 2003 respectively. It features a mix, in addition to Comic-Books, of current TV Pop Cultures, from Science Fiction & Fantasy to Anime & Manga. It features special guest comic-book writers and artists and actors from currently in vogue series, movies and anime as well as special effects workers.

• DoujiCon (pronounced 'dodgy con') Self-publishing comic/art/manga/animation convention held in Melbourne. First held in 2006.

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Creators

Australian comic book, strip and cartoon artists and writers:

• Patrick Alexander - Pink Chickens, Raymondo Person
• Liz Argall
• Gerard Ashworth
• Jason Badower - The Innocents
• Marcelo Baez - Diabla
• Benjamin Baker
• Jimmy Bancks - creator of Ginger Meggs
• Fil Barlow - Inkspots, Zooniverse
• Matt Bayliss - Cosmic Corsairs
• Doug Bayne - co-creator of Platinum Grit (plays Mephisto in Double the Fist)
• Scott Beattie - The Seven Swords
• Philip Bentley - Fox Comics, Inkspots, Passionate Nomads, Word Balloons
• Avi Bernshaw - co-founder of OzTAKU
• Lee Slattery - Bacchus, Dee Vee, Everybody Loves The Lizardman
• Dan Best - The Escapist, Dee Vee
• David Bird - Fox Comics editor, Strange Tableaux publisher
• Neale Blanden
• David Blumenstein - Nakedfella Comics and Herman, The Legal Labrador
• Brendan Boyd - The False Impressionists, Tango
• Maurice Bramley
• Donald Brooker - Cesspool
• Shannon Browning - Welcome to Woodville, Robotoon, Coalition of the Willing
• Christopher Brunton - Dee Vee
• Jason Buckley - The SuburbanKnights
• Nick Bugeja
• Aaron Burgess - The Ink
• Christopher Burns - Eldritch Kid, Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday
• Susan Butcher - Pox
• Bernard Caleo - Tango, The False Impressionists
• Eddie Campbell - Bacchus, From Hell
• Stephen Campbell - Inkspots
• Gerald Carr - Vampire!, Vixen (superheroine with fox inspired super powers), The Dirty Digger http://www.vixenmagazine.com
• Thomas Carter
• Ambar Carvan - Brick Dog
• Adrian Ceroni
• Gary Chaloner - Jackaroo, Red Kelso, Will Eisner's John Law
• Queenie Chan - The Dreaming
• Peter Chapman
• Keith Chatto
• Darren Close - Killeroo
• Lachlan Conn
• Ben Constantine -Plump Oyster, Phatsville
• Noel Cook - Kokey Koala
• Trudy Cooper - artist, co-creator and co-writer of Platinum Grit
• Stan Cross
• Jeff Cruz
• Dave Cunning - Penciller on Ma. B, Down Under and Billy Joe Tequila, Director of Local Act Comics
• Clint Cure (AKA Q-Ray)
• John L. Curtis - The Silver Jacket
• Mike Delight
• Solomon Dent
• Guy Dernee - Nothing Serious
• David de Vries - Cyclone!, Dark Horse Down Under, The Phantom
• Graeme Dickenson - Closet Tales
• Frank Dirscherl - The Wraith
• John Dixon - Air Hawk
• Daniel Douglas
• Michal Dutkiewicz - Batman Forever, Lost in Space
• Ian Eddy
• Sarah Ellerton - Inverloch
• Daniel Elliott
• Anton Emdin - Cruel World
• Michael Evans
• Jules Faber - Sporadic, Golgotha
• Miles Ferguson
• Andy Finlayson
• Roger Fletcher
• Peter Foster
• Jason Franks
• Scott Fraser - Dollboy
• Hayden Fryer - Billy: Demon Slayer, Full Moon, FORCES, Nothing Serious
• Greg Gates - Inkspots, Strange Worlds
• Dan Gibbs
• May Gibbs
• Nicki Greenberg
• Edward J Grug III - The Bizarre Life of Charlie Red Eye
• Stewart Hale - Issue One Comics-Zero Assassin, Cyber-Swine
• George Hall - Reverie
• Jase Harper - Sporadic, Big Fun Mega Happy Pet Land (Mania magazine) Guh! books 1-2
• Paul Harris - Fox Comics, Reverie
• Fatih Hasbudak
• Owen Heitmann - Basic Wage Kids
• Peta Hewitt - Terinu
• Doug Holgate - currently artist on Amazing Joy Buzzards and a Flight contributor, Tales from Under the Bed
• Yaroslav Horak - The Mask, Jet Fury
• Walt Howarth
• Ben Hutchings - Dragon Hurtor, Northbourne & Glory Bound
• Matt Huynh (aka STiKMAN) - Happy Birthday, Anyway
• Peter Jetnikoff
• Scott Johnson - Hip Pocket
• Chris Johnston - Inkspots
• Garth Jones
• Troy Kealley - Something Wicked, Owen, Badlands Taxi
• James Kemsley - current writer/artist of Ginger Meggs
• David Kerr - Worlds Away, Days of Asha in OzTAKU
• Giles Kilham - Phatsville
• Jared Lane
• Gary Lau - Knight-Edge
• Daniel Lawson - Azerath
• Len Lawson - The Lone Avenger
• Peter Ledger - Carlos McLlyr, Sisterhood of Steel
• David Li - Magi in OzTAKU
• Michael Li
• Sal Lima - Zxenith
• Dave Lovegrove - Erik Saga (1 - 9), Steak & Kidney Boy
• C.A. Luke
• Mark Lulham
• Glenn Lumsden - Cyclone!, The Phantom
• Gregory Mackay
• Angelo Madrid
• Zeldz Magnoonis - Pepe's Quest
• Alex Major - Naomi & Poggie, Goats on Ice
• Glenn Manders - Phatsville, Bad Teeth
• Josè Manfredini - The Yahl (Down Under Comics (DUC))
• Kieran Mangan
• David McDermott
• Tim McEwen - Greener Pastures
• Maggie McFee - Katie Galaxy (also runs Pulp faction )
• Stewart McKenny - The Watch
• Daniel McKeown
• Jessica McLeod - Activities For Rainy Days
• Jacob McNish
• Jeremy MacPherson
• Arthur Mather Captain Atom, Flynn of the FBI
• Darrel Merritt - Dark Horse Down Under, Fox Comics, Passionate Nomads
• Nicholas William Moll - The Masked Coyote
• Marcus Moore - Bacchus, Spirit New Adventures, Heavy Metal, Dee Vee, Life Is Cheap
• Alice Mrongovius
• Danny Murphy - co-creator and co-writer of Platinum Grit
• Bruce Mutard - The Bunker
• Jan Napiorkowski
• Michael Nason
• Dillon Naylor - Da 'n Dill, Batrisha
• Bobby Nenadovic - Withheld
• Tony Newton - The SuburbanKnights, fictionym.comics
• Owen Nicholls - Jaeger, Mission
• Tanya Nicholls - Jaeger, Mission
• Wayne Nichols
• Syd Nicholls - Fatty Finn, Middy Malone
• Linzee R. Nold - Fox Comics
• Talitha Nonveiller - The Deerflame Legacy, Tale Trader
• Mandy Ord - Brick Dog, Sensitive Creatures, Dirty Little Creep, Ordinary Eyeball
• Jason Paulos - Hairbutt the Hippo, Eeek!
• Maria Pena - Fox Comics, Passionate Nomads
• John Petropoulos - Bug & Stump
• Craig Phillips - Finch!
• Tad Pietrzykowski - Dark Nebula
• Stanley Pitt - Silver Starr
• Henry Pop (aka HPoP) - Generation
• Poshua (AKA Katie Huang) - Generation manga anthology
• Steven Preston
• Tom Priestley
• Pamela Ramali - Generation
• Jason Rand
• Dean Rankine - Holy Cow! Christian Comics, Grossgirl and Boogerboy
• Christian Read - The Watch, Eldritch Kid, Witch King
• Daniel Reed - The Crumpeton Experiments
• Mark Richards - Scott Willasee is the VOID!
• Leigh Rigozzi - Flippin' Out, Tales of Hobartian Life, Vacant Lot
• Leigh Rust - Zxenith
• Dante Sapienza - Violin Girl
• Kirrily Schell
• Gerard Scifo - Street Knowledge, Smooth
• J. Marc Schmidt - Egg Story
• Nicola Scott - Birds of Prey(DC Comics),Star Wars titles (Dark Horse), Angel titles (IDW Publishing), Dead Year High (Penguin Books), Season of the Witch(Image Comics), Halloween Man
• Mark Selan - Founder of the 24 Hours in Oz Comics Challenge/OzComics 24 Hr Challenge
• Christopher Sequeira - Justice League Adventures (DC Comics), 9/11: Artists Respond Vol. II (DC Comics), Pulse of Darkness, Rattlebone: The Pulp-Faced Detective, Mister Blood, Deadlock & Doc Morton, Bold Action, The Borderlander, Jonny Flathead: Agent of MONSTA.
• Mark Sexton - Bug & Stump
• Colin Sharpe - Xuan Xuan manga anthology
• Glen Shearer - editor of Operation Funnybone
• Simon Sherry
• Holly Shorland - Operation Funnybone
• Komala Singh - Moshi Moshi
• Lee Slattery - Bacchus, Dee Vee, Everybody Loves The Lizardman
• Nathan Soehardi - The SuburbanKnights
• Jon Sommariva - Go Boy 7
• Sorayan - The Yahl (Down Under Comics (DUC))
• Ive Sorocuk
• Madonna Spelta - OzTAKU
• Richard Stevens - PEB Casey
• Emma-Jean Stewart
• John Stewart - Phatsville
• Joseph Szekeres - Elfquest Wave Dancers (original series), Underwater Love
• Shaun Tan - The Lost Thing, The Arrival
• David Tang - Knee Pockets
• Ben Templesmith - 30 Days of Night, Star Wars
• Ian C. Thomas - Moth & Tanuki (in OzTAKU and Mania), Ratty Things (Mania), The Ink, Xuan Xuan, Maelstrom (also in Reverie), Busker Jim (City Extra)
• Gavin Thomson - Bob
• Vivienne To
• Brendan Tolley - The False Impressionists, Tango
• Andie Tong
• Melanie Tregonning
• Marty Trengove - Fox Comics, Roscoe the Dawg
• Stephen Turner
• Cassandra Tytler
• Gaston Vanzet - Reverie
• Ryan Vella - He Died with a Felafel in His Hand graphic novel
• Sheldon Vella
• David Vodicka - Fox Comics
• Chris Wahl - Mad Magazine, Platinum
• Gavin Wainwright - Whitehawk (webcomic)
• Jo Waite - Tango, Going Down Swinging
• Tonia Walden - prolific mini-comic creator and publisher, Eat Comics, Pirates
• Rich Warwick
• Grant Watson - Aggressive Retail Therapy, The Angriest Video Store Clerk in the World
• L.Frank Weber - Crab Allen
• Monty Wedd
• Frank Wessing
• Paul Wheelahan - The Raven, The Panther [2]
• Daren White - Dee Vee, Batman: Order of the Beasts, Legends of the Dark Knight
• Joe Whyte
• Colin Wilson - Strips, 2000AD, La Jeunesse de Blueberry, Dans L'Ombre du Soleil, Point Blank
• Ryan Wilton - Azerath
• Mark Withington - OzTAKU
• Gary Wong
• Ashley Wood - Cyclone Comics Quarterly, Dark Horse Down Under, Popbot
• Carol Wood - Pox
• Damien Woods - Monkeyboy and His Magical Underpants (DMAG)
• Anthony Woodward - Scrambled
• David Yardin - District X, Black Panther, Realm of the Claw, Storm
• Sam Young - Issue One Comics-Zero Assassin, Cyber-Swine
• Pablo Zubieta - The SuburbanKnights
• Colin Wells - Vigil
• David Heinrich - Champions, Earth

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References

• Patrick, Kevin. Heroes & villains: Australian comics and their creators. Melbourne: State Library of Victoria, 2006. ISBN 0-9775064-4-4

• Bonzer : Australian comics 1900-1990s, edited by Annette Shiell; checklist compiled by Mick Stone. Redhill South, Vic. : Elgua Media, 1998. ISBN 1-876677-00-7 / 1876677066

• Ryan, John. Panel by panel: a history of Australian comics. Stanmore, N.S.W.: Cassell Australia, 1979. ISBN 0-7269-7376-9

External links

• Current exhibition of Australian comic books by the State Library of Victoria
• Pulp Faction and the Pulp Faction forums
• Tabula Rasa - Information on Australian comics and creators
• Comics Australia -Commentary and critique on the Australian comics scene
• Phase Two - Online comics shop
• Knight-Edge - Australian urban ninja assassin manga series
• OzTAKU - Australian manga magazine and forums
• Siberian Productions - Australian Independent Publisher
• Australian Cartoonists' Association
• Hayase! Australian Comics Wiki
• SCOTT WILLASEE is THE VOID! online strip & blogspot
• the ART of COMICS cartoon, comic & animation workshops
• Comics Down Under Blog