George Napier Sprod b. 1919

Also known as Sprod, George Sprod
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Popular Adelaide born, mid 20th century Sydney and London based cartoonist and writer. From his early cartoons to cheer his fellow POWs at Changi, Sprod became one of the most popular London Punch cartoonists of the 1960s.
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Citations

  • Simmons, Don (July 2000), 'Stuff cartoons are made of’, Wyong, NSW : The Australian Senior, p 7, .

  • Sprod, George, 'Chips off a shoulder (anthology)’.

  • Jensen, John (1989), 'Australasian Cartoonists in Britain 1889-1988 (Working Paper 43)’, London, England, UK : Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies.

  • Judd, Craig (1999), 'Australians in black & white : (the most public art)’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1979), 'The inked-in image : a social and historical survey of Australian comic art’, Richmond, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (new edition).

  • Lindesay, Vane (1994), 'Drawing from life : a history of the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales Press, pp 32-33.

  • Paull, Kerry (curator) (1990), 'Alice 125 : A Celebration’, Melbourne, Vic : Carroll Foundation.

  • Rafty, Tony; with Mack, Brodie (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, Sydney, NSW : Blaxland Gallery.

  • Sprod, George (1957), 'The parks of London – wrought iron raillery’, Quadrant 5 [2/1] (summer 1957), pp 39-48.

  • Sprod, George (1989), 'When I Survey the Wondrous Cross : Sydney’s King’s Cross ancient and modern’, Dee Why, NSW : Quincunx Press.

  • (1986), 'Australian Black and White Artists Club book of originals’, Sydney, NSW : Australian Black and White Artists Club / Art Gallery of New South Wales (178.1988.1-102).

See also

  • '"Good on yer, Dig", Sprod by Sprod (illus. Lindesay 1994, 33).'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists

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Related collections
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld. (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld. (collected in)