cartoonist and illustrator, is a fifth generation Western Australian. He began cartooning in Melbourne and Tasmania; from 1957 he was political cartoonist on the Launceston Examiner and the weekly Launceston Express . In 1969 he returned to Perth to be political cartoonist on its evening newspaper, the Perth Daily News . He won the International Editorial Cartoon Competition organised by the Californian Newspaper Publishers’ Association {between 1957 and 1964} and has also won a Walkley for best cartoon in 1973. An original cartoon c.1980s is in Mitchell Library (PXD 764).
Langoulant published A MAL for all seasons (Panorama Books: Perth, n.d. [1981?]), a collection of caricatures of Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser punning on words that start with 'Mal’, e.g. 'Malaria’. He was then running a graphic arts business 'in a renovated terrace house overlooking a park in West Perth’, was married with four children and the active president of the Western Australian Gold Club. In the 1990s he did a series of Ashe of the Outback books and illustrated Nigel Gray’s The Frog Prince (Cygnet Books, $10.95), a quirky modern variation on the fairy-tale with 'a beautiful Princess in leathers, a chainsaw, a clutch of tadpoles and lots of wet kisses’ ( Imprint 28, spring 1997, 25). A member of Australian Black and White Artists’ Club, he had lots of coloured originals in the Club’s commercial outlet, Sydney’s Hotel Intercontinental Sketches Bar, in the late 1990s.
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
