Peter Russell Clarke b.

Also known as Peter
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Late 20th century Melbourne cartoonist, illustrator, writer and cook.
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Biography <p>cartoonist, illustrator, writer and cook, was born in Ballarat and claimed to have been reared in Tumut, Sydney, the South Coast, Argalong, Taubingo and Melbourne. He worked as a freelance cartoonist for the Melbourne <i>Age</i>, <i>_Age_ , _Sun News-Pictorial</i>_ and many other papers. From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s he mainly did wrote articles and drew cartoons for the Melbourne <i>_Herald</i>_ (e.g. 1967 change in the bush, ill. Lindesay 1979, 317), including two comic strips in 1973. He wrote and illustrated a cooking page in the Melbourne <i>_Sunday Observer</i>_ in the 1970s and has appeared on TV as a cook (own cooking programs: e.g. <i>_Come and get it, with Peter Russell Clarke</i>_ , ABC, 1980s). Illustrated <i>_The Awful Australian</i>_ by Bob King Crawford (John Walker, North Brighton, Vic., 1969) with cartoons; a coloured one on the cover is signed 'Peter', the rest are unsigned. </p> <p><b>

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