Whiz

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Colonial period newspaper cartoonist, Whiz was the chief (possibly the sole) illustrator on Innocents in Sydney in 1879.
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cartoonist, was the chief (possibly the sole) illustrator on Innocents in Sydney in 1879, signing crude but extremely lively woodcuts, e.g. two women duelling in the Domain (setting after John Rae ?) for a story, 'A wife’s jealousy – four shots at her rival’ #6 (1879), 88; 'A facetious girl in breeches’ #8 (1879); 'Elopement with a “coloured gentleman”’ #7 (1879), 104; 'The Innocent politely offers his portrait to the public’ #9 (1879), frontispiece (man as Don Quixote running at a windmill labelled 'Hate’ etc.); 'A fight in the Lady Loftus cafe’ #5 (1879), 72.

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

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  • Rae, John (associate of)