Montague Thomas Archibald Wedd b. 5 January 1921

Also known as Monty Wedd
  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Designer (Graphic Designer)
Wedd was a Sydney cartoonist, designer and comic book artist who worked on the nation's earliest animated film "Marco Polo vs the Red Dragon". He also executed covers for pulp fiction, drew trading cards and other emphemera. His obituary cites the establishment of his "Monarch Historical Museum", Dee Why (1960). Early in his career, he also designed selected items of furniture for Corkhill & Lang and Grace Bros., Sydney.

Citations

  • 'World War II Nominal Rolls : Army and RAAF’.

  • Mark Juddery (1 January 2012), 'Monty Wedd’.

  • 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.

  • Rae, Richard (ed.) (1983), 'Cartoonists of Australia’, Marrickville, NSW : View Productions, p.88 ff (long, rather pompous but informative autobiography with examples of work).

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

  • Shiell, Annette (ed.) (1998), 'Bonzer : Australian comics 1900-1990s’, Redhill South, Vic : Elgua Media (Information from Monty Wedd).

  • Shiell, Annette; & Unger, Ingrid (1994), 'A.C.E. biographical portraits : the artists behind the comic book characters : the Australian comic book exhibition, Australian comics 1930s-1990s’, Clayton, Vic : National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University (all from Webb in Rae).

  • (1986), 'Australian Black and White Artists Club book of originals’, Sydney, NSW : Australian Black and White Artists Club / Art Gallery of New South Wales (178.1988.1-102).

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists