Design and Art Australia Online

Joan Kerr observed that the 1935 attribution “seems extraordinarily anachronistic. (Was it being recycled?)”. On verso is partial drawing – quite camp – of what appears to be a koala dressed as a Hollywood cowboy, complete with guns, hat and chaps – possibly related to the “Hollywood” series of drypoints of the early 1930s, which suggests the mid 1930s date of this particular cartoon is correct, although the theme suggests a much earlier gag revisited.