Les Tanner b. 15 June 1927

Also known as Leslie Mervyn Tanner
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Influential mid 20th century political cartoonist. Tanner worked as a cartoonist for the Melbourne Age for 30 years as well as contributing to a number of other publications. The controversial 1967 Bulletin issue which attacked the Victorian Government's decision to hang criminal Ronald Ryan, and which featured a cartoon by Tanner, was pulped on the orders of Sir Frank Packer.
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Citations

  • Walsh, R. (1966), 'No Holts Barred’.

  • Tanner, Les, 'Tanner With Words’.

See also

  • 'Self-portrait in 'Australia's magnificent cartoonists', Bulletin 12 November 1985, p 95, (ill. King, p 161).'.
  • 'Self-portrait on front page of the Melbourne Age, 9 June 1976, with Nicholson, Petty, Spooner and Tandberg as 'Australia's finest gallery of cartoonists'.'.
  • '(Rioting crowd burning down building in background and elderly couple in room with packed trunks in foreground): "It's ghastly, Cynthia. We're safe, but they think we're Australians", Bulletin 1963 (ill. Rolfe, 307).'.

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Other occupations
  • News compositor
  • Actor (ANZSIC code: 9002)
  • News compositor
  • Actor