comic book artist, drew the comic Piggy Grunter in three Magpie comics published by Frank Johnson c.1946, Champion , Sensational and Exciting . All the other comics included in the books were by men, including Emile Mercier ( Mudrake the Magician and Tripalong Hoppity in the 1st, Wocko the Beaut and Rufus and Rastus in the 2nd), Lock ( Prendergast in the first two), Ron Broadley , Peter and Ross Chapman , Noel Cook , Frank Jessup , Carl Lyon , Colin Robertson and Rhys Williams . (An earlier c.1943 Frank Johnson publication – not a Magpie comic – also called Exciting did not include Shelley but was an all-male production with Tom Hubble as well as the regulars.)
Noreen’s Bunya the Bunyip was included in the Frank Johnson one-shot Magpie comic Fearless (c.1946) along with Moira Bertram 's Jo , but Noreen and Ralph Shelley were the artists given for Bunya the Bunyip in Dauntless (c.1946), which also had 8 comics by men: Dick Alderton and some of the above team (Mercier again did 2). Bunya the Bunyip by Noreen and Ralph Shelley also appeared in the Magpie comic Lucky (c.1946), along with Mercier’s Wacko the Beaut and Mister Moneybags , 2 comics by Broadley and three by Chapman, Jessup and Lock.
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
