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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  • Pidgeon, Bill (associate of)
  • King, Margaret (spouse of)
  • Tanner, Judy (parent of)
  • Tanner, Mark (parent of)
  • Tanner, Michael (parent of)
  • Horne, Donald (associate of)
  • Hastings, Peter (associate of)
  • Coleman, Peter (associate of)
  • Frith (associate of)
  • Bolte, Henry (Sir) (associate of)
  • Perkin, Graham (associate of)
  • Ryan, Ronald (associate of)
Related stub person groups
  • Black and White Artists' Club (associate of)
  • London Cartoonists' Club (associate of)
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  • Petty, Bruce Leslie (associate of)
  • Humphries, Barry (associate of)
  • Rushton, William (associate of)
  • Spooner, John Henry (associate of)
  • Foyle, Lindsay (associate of)
Related collections
  • National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic. (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • Walkeley Award for Best Cartoon of the Year (received)
  • London Cartoonists' Club award for most promising newcomer (received)
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