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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References [<ExternalResource: Walsh, R. (1966), 'No Holts Barred'.>, <ExternalResource: Tanner, Les, 'Tanner With Words'.>, <ExternalResource: Adams, Phillip (1986), 'Arrest that Cartoonist!', Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin.>, <ExternalResource: Bridges, J.; & Heimann, R. (1988), 'Australia, the Cartoon', Carlton, Vic : McCulloch (biog. & 3 cartoons).>, <ExternalResource: Coleman, P.; & Tanner, L. (1967), 'Cartoons of Australian History', Melbourne, Vic : Nelson.>, <ExternalResource: Coleman, Peter (1966), 'The Joker and the Thief', Crossings 1/2, pp 10-13.>, <ExternalResource: Filmer, V. (1983), Ballarat, Victoria : Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.>, <ExternalResource: Foyle, Lindsay (2001), '(obituary)', Australian, 07-27, p 12.>, <ExternalResource: Germaine, Max (1979), 'Artists and galleries of Australia and New Zealand', Sydney, NSW : Lansdowne Editions.>, <ExternalResource: King, R. (1979), 'The other side of the coin : a cartoon history of Australia', Stanmore, NSW : Cassell Australia (Rev. ed.).>, <ExternalResource: Petty, Bruce; and Spooner, John (2001), 'Obituaries (separately)', Sydney Morning Herald, 07-26, p 30.>, <ExternalResource: Rafty, Tony with Mack, Brodie (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning', Sydney, New South Wales: Blaxland Gallery, September.>, <ExternalResource: Rolfe, P. (1979), 'The journalistic javelin - an illustrated history of the Bulletin', Gladesville, NSW : Wildcat Press, [distributed by Golden Press], p 271.>, <ExternalResource: Stone, Walter (1973), '50 years of the newspaper cartoon in Australia', Adelaide, SA : The News, Adelaide in association with the Art Gallery of South Australia, p 82.>, <ExternalResource: Turner, Ann (2000), Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia (NLA Oral History interviews).>, <ExternalResource: Coleman, Peter (1997), 'The Bulletin, the editor and the Cherry Orchard: A tale of the 1960s', Canberra, ACT : Voices (Autumn) , pp 88-95.>, <ExternalResource: Tanner, Les (1989), 'A war that caught the artists napping', Sydney Morning Herald, 09-12, p 11.>, <ExternalResource: Tanner, Les (1996), ''Margaret (Peg) Tanner' (obituary for his wife)', Sydney Morning Herald, 05-30.>, <ExternalResource: Sydney, NSW: Daily Telegraph.>, <ExternalResource: 'British Commonwealth Occupation Newspaper', Osaka, Japan.>, <ExternalResource: Sydney, NSW: AM.>, <ExternalResource: London, UK; Daily Sketch.>, <ExternalResource: Melbourne, Vic. : Age.>, <ExternalResource: Sydney, NSW: Bulletin.>] [<ExternalResource: Walsh, R. (1966), 'No Holts Barred'.>, <ExternalResource: Tanner, Les, 'Tanner With Words'.>]