Ron Broadley

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mid 20th century illustrator and commercial pulp fiction artist.
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illustrator and commercial artist, has numerous pulp fiction original drawings in the Frank Johnson collection (Mitchell Library [ML] Px*D68), e.g. Western Rebellion ./ 'As they gathered in the white men’s presents they were shot down by a brutal volley’, no.199; New Guinea Vengeance ./ '“You must be careful of the native boys,” Schwartz warned’ (PxD68/838); Manning River Amazon by C.K. Thompson, no.181 (title page), and no.182 ( Isabella ordered the convict to set her free ). Also original cartoons (ML Px*D69/618), “Hullo – This is the Invisible Mending Co” –’ (invisible man answering telephone) n.d., and another of faceless man on phone to vanishing cream company. Px*D69/587 shows artist with sub-machine gun shooting bullets into giant statue of nude woman.

He drew a big original caricature of Unk White drawing girls (ML).

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

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Related people
  • White, Unk (associate of)
Related collections
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney (collected in)