Percy Benison b. 1881

Also known as J. Bension, P. Benison
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Early 20th century Sydney cartoonist, comic book artist, illustrator and costume designer. Benison contributed to a number of publications including the Comic Australian, Home and Lone Hand.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 42427/1972’.

  • Kirkpatrick, Peter (1992), 'The sea coast of Bohemia : literary life in Sydney’s roaring twenties’, St Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Or, USA : International Specialized Book Services [distributor].

  • Mills, Carol (1991), 'The New South Wales Bookstall as a publisher’, Canberra, ACT : Mulini Press.

  • Rafty, Tony & Mack, Brodie (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, Sydney, NSW : Blaxland Gallery.

  • Stone, Mick (1998), '[checklist]’, Redhill South, Vic : Elgua Media, in Shiell, Annette (ed.), Bonzer : Australian comics 1900-1990s.

  • Benison, Percy, 'Percy Benison Papers’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales : Mitchell Library, ML MSS 5758 and pictorial material (drawings and newspaper cuttings) ML PXD 651.

  • 'Joan Kerr Archive’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

See also

  • 'Portrait by David Low, Lone Hand 1 June 1914, 30'.
  • 'Self portrait of artist drawing with a block of ice on his head surrounded by empty bottles, Comic Australian 18 June 1912, 2'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists