Sid Black

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mid 20th century Bulletin cartoonist whose work was included in the 1999 exhibitions 'Artists and cartoonists in black and white' at the S.H. Ervin Gallery and 'Australians in black & white : (the most public art)' at the State Library of New South Wales.
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cartoonist, drew cartoons for the Bulletin in the 1940s-50s, including a cross-dressed couple getting married, “But we’re doing it this way for a bit of publicity” 1946. Others include: “Sorry, Sir, I just can’t help it – it’s the environment” 1947 (female working at newsstand of 'true love’ publications); “Fertile country around here, Bert – after that rain EVERYTHING sprouts” (barber shaving the very hairy body of a man) 1947. Mitchell Library (ML) Bulletin originals include two miners, “It’s a uranium outcrop! We’re rich! We’re radioactive!” (Px*D453/123), paid 12 November 1954, published 13 April 1955; wife to husband, “Ever since I got this ultra-contemporary furniture you’ve been uneasy and discontented” (Px*D453/61), paid 27 May 1959; and (landlady to timid elderly man) “Furthermore, you must promise me not to conduct wild rock-'n-roll parties in your room” (Px*D453/21), paid 20 January 1960. His ML Bulletin original of a group of middle-aged women reading 'men only’ magazines and chortling 'Aren’t we NAUGHTY girls!’ was used in the 1999 S.H. Ervin b/w art exhibition, while another about Aborigines trying to buy tickets for John Antill’s Corroboree ballet (published Bulletin 1951) was in the complementary State Library of New South Wales b/w show.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007

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