Colin Colahan b. 1897

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Mid 20th century Melbourne meldrumite painter and a cartoonist.
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cartoonist, illustrator and painter, contributed to the Bulletin circa WWI, e.g. The Payment of Salome (re German head on a platter) 27 April 1916, 13; The Expression Celestial . '[Aussie digger in France] 'BILLJIM: “Say, Gustave, tell me something nice to say to her.”/ GUSTAVE: “Say 'Vous etes ange!’”/ BILLJIM (doubtfully): “But what does 'ange’ mean?”/ GUSTAVE: “Oh, he mean – er – blankee bonzaire!’” 18 November 1917; Diagnosis (re sadistic doctor) 28 February 1918, 10.

Colahan illustrated The Heart of the School: An Australian School Story (Melbourne, J. Roy Stevens, 1920) by Eustace Boylan, an Irish Jesuit priest who was Prefect of Studies at Xavier College, Melbourne, during the period his novel for boys is set. Colahan’s illustration in Niall (p.163) is a line drawing very like a cartoon.

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007