portrait painter, commercial, advertising and comic-strip artist, poet, writer and salesman, was born in Sydney, son of an advertising executive father and a surgeon and geologist mother. Educated at Sydney Boys’ High and the Julian Ashton Art School, he then worked as a sales rep, selling advertising space for newspapers, magazines and radio stations. He was a camouflage artist during WWII. During the 1940s he worked as comic artist and writer and sometimes self-publisher, signing his comics 'Hub’. He was particularly interested in science fiction, e.g. Desert-Dragon (on 'living fossils’ in Australia) and Raybot .
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
