cartoonist and illustrator, is a fifth generation Western Australian. He began cartooning in Melbourne and Tasmania; from 1957 he was political cartoonist on the Launceston Examiner and the weekly Launceston Express. In 1969 he returned to Perth to be political cartoonist on its evening newspaper, the Perth Daily News. He won the International Editorial Cartoon Competition organised by the Californian Newspaper Publishers’ Association {between 1957 and 1964} and has also won a Walkley for best cartoon in 1973. An original cartoon c.1980s is in Mitchell Library (PXD 764).
Langoulant published A MAL for all seasons (Panorama Books: Perth, n.d. [1981?]), a collection of caricatures of Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser punning on words that start with 'Mal’, e.g. 'Malaria’. He was then running a graphic arts business 'in a renovated terrace house overlooking a park in West Perth', was married with four children and the active president of the Western Australian Gold Club. In the 1990s he did a series of Ashe of the Outback books and illustrated Nigel Gray’s The Frog Prince (Cygnet Books, $10.95), a quirky modern variation on the fairy-tale with 'a beautiful Princess in leathers, a chainsaw, a clutch of tadpoles and lots of wet kisses’ (Imprint 28, spring 1997, 25). A member of Australian Black and White Artists’ Club, he had lots of coloured originals in the Club’s commercial outlet, Sydney's Hotel Intercontinental Sketches Bar, in the late 1990s.
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
