Syd Nicholls b. c.1896

Also known as Sydney Wentworth Nicholls, Sydney Wentworth Jordan
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Cartoonist, creator of "Fatty Finn".
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Citations

  • 'Smith’s Weekly’.

  • 'Sunday News’.

  • 'Evening Standard’.

  • 'Direct Action’.

  • 'Bulletin’.

  • 'International Socialist’.

  • Ritchie, J. (ed.) (2000), 'Australian Dictionary of Biography’, Melbourne, Vic : Melbourne University Press, Volume 15.

  • King, J. (1979), 'The other side of the coin : a cartoon history of Australia’, Stanmore, NSW : Cassell Australia [Rev. ed.].

  • Lindesay, Vane (1979), 'The inked-in image : a social and historical survey of Australian comic art’, Richmond, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia [New ed.].

  • Rae, Richard (ed.) (1983), 'Cartoonists of Australia’, Marrickville, NSW : View Productions.

  • Rainbow, Brenda (1998), '“Golden Years of Cartooning” 1920 to 1940 : Featuring the works of Stan Cross & more than twenty cartoonists of the same era’, Coffs Harbour, NSW : Bunker Cartoon Gallery.

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

  • Shiell, Annette (ed.) (1998), 'Bonzer: Australian comics 1900s-1990s’, Victoria : Elgua Media.

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

  • 'Sydney Sun’, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Sydney Morning Herald’, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Sun-Herald’, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Sunday Herald’, Sydney, NSW.

See also

  • 'PORTRAIT: George Aria, Syd ("Fatty Finn") Nicholls, published Bulletin August 1932 (ill. Lindesay 1994, 18); Brenda Rainbow's exhibition of original Smith's Weekly cartoons now owned by Sue Cross included (p.50) a caricature of a man as little Lord Fauntle.'.

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)
  • State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld. (collected in)