Jack Gibson b. 1904

Also known as John Shirley Gibson, Gibbie, Jack S. Gibson
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mid 20th century Sydney magazine writer and cartoonist for 'Man'. Journalist Mike Gibson, described him as 'one of the true Bohemians...'a member of the hard working, hard drinking group of journalists and cartoonists who haunted the Cross.'

Citations

  • 'NSW Birth Records: 1985/1904’.

  • 'NSW Marriage Records: 16101/1929; 331/1942’.

  • (1981), 'Kings Cross 1936-1946’, Kings Cross Community Aid and Information Service, pp 97-98, ed. Cameron, Ian A., Macrae, M. and Stevenson, Clare G., Potts Point, New South Wales:.

  • Gibson, Mike (4 May 1980), Sun Herald (Sydney).

  • Lindesay, Vane (1983), 'The way we were: Australian popular magazines 1856 to 1969’, Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press, pp 144-45.

  • Munster, Hans Peter, 'Who’s Who in Satire and Humour Band 1-3’, Basel, Switzerland: Sammlung Karikaturen & Cartoons Basel/ St Alban-Vorstadt 9, vol.2, p.82.

  • Rafty, Tony with Mack, Brodie (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, Sydney, New South Wales: Blaxland Gallery.

  • (1937), 'So this is Surrealism, Giving you the lowdown on Modern Art’, Man, December, p45-46.

See also

  • 'Self-portrait and joke biography, Man, March 1940, 97, photograph Man December 1937, p 7.'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists