Peter Harrigan

Also known as Middy, Pete Harrigan
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Late 20th century Sydney and Brisbane cartoonist and illustrator. According to Blaikie, he is notable for thinking up outstandingly good jokes.

Citations

  • Gooding, Janda (Information sourced from) (June 1997), '[cartoon printout]’, Perth, WA: Art Gallery of Western Australia, .

  • Blaikie, George (1966), '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 (1979), 'The inked-in image: a social and historical survey of Australian comic art’, Richmond, Vic.: Hutchinson of Australia (new edition).

  • (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).

  • Coleman, Peter and Tanner, Les (1967), 'Cartoons of Australian history’, Melbourne, Vic.: Nelson, page 183.

  • Rolfe, Patricia (1979), 'The journalistic javelin: an illustrated history of the Bulletin’, Sydney, NSW: Wildcat Press; Gladesville, NSW: distributed by Golden Press, page 302.

  • Swain, David (1981), 'One thing and another’, Canberra, ACT: Brian Clouston, p 148.

  • Information sourced from Gooding, Janda.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists