Record ID:
35777337 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1900
  • New Zealand
Death:
  • 1986
Associated with:
  • Australia
Occupations:
  • comic artist
  • illustrator
  • painter
Used for:
  • White, Cecil John, 1900-1986
Notes:
  • Lambiek Comiclopedia (viewed on 23 July 2018) Unk White (1900, New Zealand - March 1986, Australia ; Cecil White was an Australian cartoonist, illustrator and painter, known under the pen name Unk White. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, he came to Sydney in 1922 with the artists Joe and Guy Lynch. He became a well-known member of the bohemian art scene, and contributed regularly to magazines like the Melbourne Punch, The Bulletin, Smith's Weekly and Beckett's Budget. He is the creator of the comic strips 'Freckles' (1928) and 'The Adventures of Blue Hardy' (for Pix magazine, 1938). He also made features like 'Don Taylor & Wix', 'Dr. Evil', 'Blue Hardy' and 'Lost Country' for the often one-shot comic books published by Frank Johnson Publications in the 1940s. By 1944, he became an official war artist and served in the RAAF and Royal Navy in New Guinea, the Pacific and Japan. He was also famous for his watercolor paintings. From the late 1960s Unk White drew many of the architectural drawings in the Rigby Sketchbook series) https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/white_unk.htm
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)80802
  • 000000781998
  • abv08833431
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng
Authentication code:
  • anuc