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cartoonist and architectural draughtsman, was born Emeric Vrbancich in Austria. In Sydney he drew occasional cartoons for the Sydney Morning Herald from 1965 when, with Martin Sharp under editor J.D. Pringle (beginning his second term), he decorated a new gossip and information column called 'Data’ on page 6 of the Herald (edited by Gavin Souter then Peter Bowers then Helen Frizell). In 1972 he succeeded Eyre junior as one of the SMH’s two resident cartoonists, George Molnar continuing as the other.

Emeric’s untitled original drawing of a tattooed builders’ labourer in a wheelbarrow reading a book entitled Do It Yourself Restoration of Historic Buildings , published Sydney Morning Herald 26 August 1972 (original Mitchell Library PXD 764), was included in the State Library of New South Wales’s 1999 black and white art exhibition along with the original of Bissextile Year! (titles of books in bookshop window being inspected by a cop, including 'Memoirs of a Sexagenarian’, 'Middlesex’, 'Essex’, 'Sussex’, 'Wessex’, 'Beethoven Sextet in E Flat’ & 'The Sexagesimal System’), SMH original, p.2 [1972]. Always signing his work “emeric”, he remained with the Herald until the 1980s. Other examples are: One Man Band 13 December 1972 and Horror Movie? 1 March 1983 (selected by Christine Dixon).

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Writers:

Kerr, Joan

Date written:

1996

Last updated:

2007