Kate O'Brien b. 18 October 1914

Also known as Kate O'Brien, Kath O'Brien, Kathleen O'Brien, Kathleen Mary Blanche
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Kathleen O'Brien was an illustrator and fashion artist. She studied at Brisbane Technical College and also with J.S. Watkins for three years. O'Brien's comic strip Wanda appeared in the Sunday Telegraph from early 1943 until 1951.

Citations

  • Andersen, Hans Christian, 'Mermaid’, illustrations.

  • Handford, Nourma (c.1956), 'Carloola Backstage – A Career Novel for Girls’, Dymock’s Book Arcade, Sydney, NSW, illustrations.

  • Greenway, Ella (1950), 'Peter Cat’, Colorgravure, Melbourne, Vic, illustrations.

  • Carroll, Lewis (1943), 'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in Australia’, ACP (reprints 1944, 1946 and 1947), Sydney, NSW, illustrations.

  • O’Brien, Kate (c.1948), 'The Judy O’Neill Comic’, Golden Comic, J.S. Wilkinson, (Kilgour, Jack Noel – attributed).

  • (1998), 'Bonzer – Australian Comics 1900s-1990s’, Elgua Media, Melbourne, Vic (Shiell, Annette, ed.), (p.76 illustrates cover of the 1942 [1943?] Wanda the War Girl comic book).

  • Kerr, James Semple (1995), 'Kathleen Mary O’Brien’, Heritage (Kerr, J., ed.).

  • Blanche, Cynthia (1991), '[biography]’, The Home Front Family Album, (Keesing, Nancy, ed.) Sydney, NSW.

  • Paull, Kerry (1990), 'Alice 125 – A Celebration’, pp 32-33.

  • Ryan, John (1979), 'Panel by Panel – A History of Australian Comics’, Sydney, NSW & Melbourne, Vic.

  • Shiell, Annette and Unger, Ingrid (1994), 'Ace Biographical Portraits… 1930s-1990s’, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University, Clayton, Vic.

  • (1943), Sydney, NSW: Sunday Telegraph, 02-07.

  • Blanche, Cynthia, Information and typescript sourced from.

  • Germaine, Max, C-D Rom.

  • O’Brien, Kate (c.1944), 'Wanda the War Girl’, Consolidated Press, Sydney, NSW.

  • O’Brien, Kate (c.1947), 'The Wanda Comic’, Consolidated Press (number 1 in the ' Supercomic Series), Sydney, NSW.

  • O’Brien, Kate (c.1950), 'Wanda’, Consolidated Press (number 5 in the ' Supercomic Series), Sydney, NSW.

  • (1943), Sydney, NSW: Sunday Telegraph, 02-14.

See also

  • 'Heritage, plate 433'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions