Pyndar Willis

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Colonial period Adelaide cartoonist and caricaturist.
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cartoonist and caricaturist, worked in South Australia on the weekly Port Adelaide newspaper The Portonian , published 1871-81 (scrapbook in the Mitchell Library [ML]). With A.S. Broad he also contributed cartoons to Figaro , a magazine published in 1877 by D. Kinner Brown of Pirie Street, Adelaide (copies in the ML), which began as Peepshow (for five months) and was later re-named South Australian Figaro . Pyndar Willis’s caricatures, Barrister-at-Law and The Honourable John , were included in Figaro 's lithographic series 'Men of the Day’ on 4 July 1877 (Caban p.13).

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007

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References [<ExternalResource: Caban, Geoffrey (1983), 'A fine line : a history of Australian commercial art', Sydney, NSW : Hale & Iremonger.>]