Barry Dickens b. 1949

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
1970s Melbourne illustrator/cartoonist, playwright and writer.
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illustrator/cartoonist, playwright and writer, was born at Reservoir, Victoria. He was a member of the early 1970s theatre and poetry group at Melbourne’s La Mama, and his first play, Ghosts , was produced there in 1974. He contributed humorous articles and detailed line drawings of comically decrepit/degenerate people and social issues to various Melbourne journals. Drawings published in Overland include: “Good gord, a bloody fish!” (two winos fishing in the Yarra River) 57 (Summer 1973), 48; cover no.59 (Spring 1974); [Melbourne] Luna Park face with teeth pulled out (like dentures) no.74 (1979), 22. See file for others, including Fitzroy St, Melbourne (no originals). He wrote and illustrated 'Teeth’, reprinted Michael Sharkey, The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Humour (Melbourne: OUP, 1988), pp.267-269.

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007

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  • theatre and poetry group at Melbourne's La Mama (associate of)
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  • "Good gord, a bloody fish!" (creator of)