Jim Russell b. 1909

Also known as James Newton Russell, Mick Newton
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Prolific cartoonist: took over 'The Potts' from Stan Cross; created "Uncle Dick". In 1924 Jim Russell was one of the founders of the original Black and White Artists' Club.

Citations

  • 'Inkspot’.

  • Simmons, Don (July 2000), 'Stuff cartoons are made of’, The Australian Senior, .

  • Russell, Jim (August 2000), '[Column for The Australian Senior]’.

  • (1988), 'Australian Black-and-White Artists Club Book of Originals’.

  • Blaikie, George (1975), 'Remember Smith’s Weekly? : a biography of an uninhibited national Australian newspaper, born 1 March 1919, died 28 October 1950’, Adelaide, SA : Rigby.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1994), 'Drawing from life : a history of the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales Press.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd edition).

  • Rainbow, Brenda (1998), '“Golden Years of Cartooning” 1920 to 1940: Featuring the works of Stan Cross & more than twenty cartoonists of the same era’, Coffs Harbour, NSW : Bunker Cartoon Gallery.

  • Ryan, John (1979), 'Panel by Panel : a history of Australian comics’, Stanmore, NSW : Cassell Australia.

  • Shiell, Annette (ed.) (1998), 'Bonzer: Australian Comics 1900s-1990s’, Elgua Media, Vic.

  • Shiell, Annette; & Unger, Ingrid (1994), 'Ace Biographical Portraits… 1930s-1990s’, National Centre for Australian Studies.

  • (14 August 1943), 'Artist Teaches Soldiers to Sketch’, Pix, (Sydney, NSW).

  • (1941), 'War Cartoons and Caricatures of the British Commonwealth’, Ottowa, Canada : National Gallery of Canada.

  • Brown, Malcolm (16 August 2001), 'Vale Uncle Dick: Potts artist died after 61 years of everyday laughs’, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW).

  • 'Smith’s Weekly’, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Evening News’, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Referee’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Cunningham, James (16 August 2001), 'Taken over by Uncle Dick’, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW).

See also

  • 'PORTRAIT: self-portrait smoking pipe, Smith's Weekly 15 April 1933, 3, with joke biography by Kenneth Slessor captioned 'Russell, James. Dancer and all that sort of thing.' (He was short and stout as well as a boxer.) A portrait is included in a line-up by by Frank Dunne captioned 'Seeing's Believing - "Smith's" Artists On Parade' 30 July 1932, 7, with description: 'Then there's JIM RUSSELL. Jim'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists