G. H. Rolfe

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Cartoonist and illustrator, 1910s. Rolfe did two propagandist lithographic cartoons in the penny anti-Sinn Fein pro-conscription magazine Comment and Cartoons 1/1 (30 November 1917).
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Cartoonist and illustrator, did two propagandist lithographic cartoons in the penny anti-Sinn Fein pro-conscription magazine Comment and Cartoons 1/1 (30 November 1917), edited by Joseph Milner Macmaster and published in Melbourne. In one, a giant hand with a finger pointing to a little man is captioned: 'TO AN ELIGIBLE./ Will you wait until you see every hand pointing at you like this?’ (p.7). The other, 'AWAKE AUSTRALIA!/ “The Enemy is within our gates”’, shows a female armed with a sword blowing a trumpet (p.15). Other cartoonists in this inaugural issue were “Boz” and M. J. Perston .

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Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007

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References [<ExternalResource: Macmaster, Joseph Milner (ed.) (30 November 1917), Melbourne, Vic : in Comment and Cartoons 1/1.>]