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cartoonist and travel writer, graduated from the Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture but works as a freelance cartoonist, mainly for magazines, and as a travel writer. He illustrated 2001 An Aussie Odyssey by Mark Carson and the Kooiker Brothers, one of a series of cheap cartoon books published by Humour Australia, Ringwood Vic., 1984. Standard in style and subject, it includes a few environmental cartoons of some interest, e.g. tourists on “Reef Tours”: “Mum… I thought the Great Barrier Reef was full of coral and fish… All I can see are 44 gallon drums!”/ “That’s nuclear waste dear… they ran out of Aboriginal sites to dump them on!!”

A member of the Australian Black and White Artists Club, he has a cartoon in the Club’s Mitchell Library collection and another in the Mitchell, dated 17 December 1985, possibly drawn for the Bulletin . 'Aisbett and Allison’, cartoonists and caricaturists, were listed on the net in 1998 (see Bev Aisbett ). Allison had two cartoons in Rainbow’s Federation exhibition 2001, where he was listed as a category winner in the 1997 Rotary National Cartoon Awards. The road to a united, amicable Federation was not an easy one (p.14) is a historical cartoon of the various state 'Fathers of Federation’ debating Parkes’s 'one people, one flag, one destiny’ slogan.

Writers:

Kerr, Joan

Date written:

1996

Last updated:

2007