Frants Kantor

Also known as K
  • Designer (Graphic Designer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Contemporary Sydney caricaturist, illustrator and commercial artist who created a scandal when he drew a caricature of the newsreader Anne Fullwood naked for Australian Penthouse in May 1993.

Citations

  • Rae, Richard (1983), 'Cartoonists of Australia’, p 58 ff.

  • (1990), '(article on Kantor’s caricatures)’, Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald, 10-27, pp 7-8.

  • (1993), '(newsreader upset)’, Sydney Morning Herald, 05-18, p 3.

  • (1993), '(Penthouse apologises)’, Sydney Morning Herald, 05-19.

  • Cockington, James (2005), 'Banned: tales from the bizarre history of Australian obscenity’, ABC Books, Ultimo, NSW.

  • (1993), Sydney, NSW: Australian Penthouse, May.

See also

  • 'PORTRAIT: Kantor's cover of Rae's Cartoonists of Australia (1983) shows a cartoonist, evidently a self-portrait, drawing a caricature of a fellow cartoonist (with bow tie and pipe) in a room with comic covers by colleagues pinned on the walls'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists