Phil Belbin b. 9 September 1925

Also known as Phillip Bertram Johnstone Belbin, Humph, Duke
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
Late 20th century Sydney painter, cartoonist, comic strip artist and illustrator. A graduate of the East Sydney Technical College, Barr served in the Australian Air Force during WW2 before beginning a 30 year association with K.G. Murray Publications. In 1974 Belbin received a Citation of Merit from the NY Society of Illustrators.
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Citations

  • Shiell, Annette (ed.) (1998), 'Bonzer : Australian Comics 1900s-1990s’, Melbourne, Vic. : Elgua Media/ Binara Publishing.

  • Ryan, John (1979), 'Panel by panel : a history of Australian comics’, Stanmore, NSW : Cassell Australia.

  • Fry, Gavin; & Burke, David (1994), 'Paint on the tracks : Australian artists and the railway’, Sydney : SH Ervin Gallery, National Trust of Australia (NSW).

  • Information sourced from Belbin, C. (Mrs).

  • Shiell, Annette; & Unger, Ingrid (1994), 'Ace Biographical Portraits… 1930s-1990s’, Clayton, Vic. : National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University.

  • 'World War II Nominal Roll’, www.ww2roll.gov.au.

  • Judd, Craig (1999), 'Australians in Black & White : (the most public art)’, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1955), 'Tharunka’, Kensington, NSW : UNSW, Volume 3, Number 3, December, p 9.

  • Budd, Dale; & Wilson, Randall (2006), 'The Sydney ferry book’, Kensington, NSW : UNSW Press.

See also

  • 'b/w Scene of Crime and Waiting Car book illustration of Sydney suburban scenes, signed 'Phil Belbin '46' (ML PX *D68 no.83, Frank Johnson col.) - included in SLNSW Black and White Exhibition'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists

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Related collections
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)