Posts by Joe Wylie
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Peter I imagine that you're probably familiar with this lovely example. A bit poignant in the circumstances, but what a jewel.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Sacha,
to hold your first book is a pretty cool feeling
Onya
+1
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Hard News: The question of Afghanistan…, in reply to Russell Brown,
So you know who really did it, then? Do tell.
Last time I asked that question I was directed to a website which in turn directed me to a series of other websites. Along with a megaload of mind-numbing minor detail, all featured popup ads with messages such as "Are you still killing yourself with vitamins?"
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
That Patsy Kane strip is a bit of a treat, eh. Rather risqué for its time and, artistically, far superior to the average seaside postcards of half-clad young women?
I reckon Gore was inspired by the British strip Jane. It was still going in the Daily Mirror in the 1950s. A week's worth of Mirrors at a time would be bound up in a yellow cover magazine format with its stablemate the Sunday Pictorial and shipped out to the farther reaches of empire, which is probably where Gore was exposed to Jane's seductive influence.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
do you know much about Ross Gore, who did the "It Happened In New Zealand" strip in NZ newspapers in the 1950s?
Geoff I know nothing at all about Ross Gore, apart from "It Happened in New Zealand" being the weekly highlight of the Evening Post in my childhood. With newspaper comics of any kind being dismally thin on the ground in postwar NZ he was a real standout. I'm pretty sure his stuff would have continued almost up to the mid-1960s. Thanks for the delightful link.
BTW does anyone recall Frontiers of Science, an Australian daily strip that ran in the Evening Post in the 1960s? I was hugely impressed with it back then, with the way it presented cutting-edge ideas clearly in beautifully drawn panels.
It was only after the artist Andre Bresciani died that I realised it was his work, even though I'd worked with him on and off for years in Australian animation. Don't know what you got 'til it's gone.
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Islander,
If tussock had suggested Brethren, especially the extreme ones, nobody would bat an eyelid
Yeah, because those latter-day saints have done pretty well to put over 500 million vital records online without the aid of computers.
BTW the last time I looked they'd retrospectively baptised my dad, but they'd managed to misspell his name. Apart from that the historical NZ passenger lists are pretty good.
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Re, Mormons & computers - Brigham Young University's computer science department has been the pioneering academic research centre for computer animation since the 70s. Dire Straits' Money for Nothing video was created with BYU-developed software.
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Geoff, my comment was in response to Peter's upthread, which your post alerted me to:
The cover image of the book is a good example of this, 1941 we think, part of a series of indigenous women done by Pat Lawlor in the US for Pan American.
Again, the book from Lawlor's library is a nice find.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Pat Lawlor rings a bell: a couple of summers ago I picked up a tiny volume of Victorian verse, in Oamaru. Had his bookplate in it,
A nice find. Unless there were two Pat Lawlors from that era though, I'd be inclined to check whether his name might have come to be associated with any artwork through his career as a writer and occasional publisher. To the best of my knowledge he was never an artist. I believe that he had a city office near the railway station in his later working years when he was NZ correspondent for Packer's Bulletin. I read a couple of his books on early Wellington years ago and enjoyed them immensely.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Russell Brown,
I use that information relatively regularly, actually. It's all in the public domain and generally reliable.
While the information is in the public domain, what little I've accessed didn't appear to be on line anywhere else. Apart from SS's comparatively detailed entry, a general Google of the particular individual yielded two old newspaper court case reports representing a fraction of their apparent offending, and an unanswered question on Old Friends asking if anyone knew how they'd turned out after leaving intermediate school.