cartoonist, was born and bred in WA. He came to Sydney and worked on Smith’s Weekly in the mid-1920s to 1930s (five 1935 examples ill. Lindesay 1979, pp. 205, 207, 208, 228, the last of a tramp admonishing a canoodooling couple in the moonlight is the best); ALSO “Yes, every penny she earns she puts on her back” 1933 (with bare-backed female: see file) and original gag about a lion refusing to eat an atheist (Rainbow, p.28). He drew lots of gags about effeminate men for Smith’s in the 1930s and also wrote satirical articles for Smith’s . An English publishing house produced a large volume of Empire comic art in the early 1930s in which leading Australian newspaper artists were given one page each, except George Donaldson who got eight pages. At his peak he lost his sight on a holiday in Tahiti. Despite recovering it within a few days, he was never in full health again (Blaikie, 83-84; ill. 83). Donaldson had more animal cartoons in the Courier Mail (Brisbane) in 1952 (ill. Lindesay 1979, pp.279, 282) and a cartoon strip, 'Capt. Yonsson’, in the Sunday Telegraph .
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
