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Interview with Warren Brown, cartoonist [sound recording] / interviewer, Ann Turner
Bib ID 310129
Format AudioAudio
Author
Brown, Warren, 1965-
 
Access Conditions Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. 
Description 1998 May 7. 
2 digital audio tapes (ca. 122 min.) 
Summary

Brown talks about his family background; childhood in Sydney; early influences; children's books and comic strips; Jannali Boys' High School; interest in history and drawing at school and political arguments in the home. He then talks about working as copy boy for News Limited - "Mirror", "Telegraph" and "Australian"; cadet in "Telegraph" Art Dept.; illustrations and caricatures for "Australian"; move to Wollongong to work on "Illawarra Mercury"; advertising and illustrations; editorial page cartoon 'Warren on Saturday'; comic strip; style influence of Frank Benier and job at "Daily Mirror" on Benier's recommendation. Brown then talks about competition between "Mirror" and "Sun"; merging of "Mirror" and "Telegraph"; cartooning for "Telegraph"; themes; importance of the idea; censorship and self-censorship and Australia's black and white art.

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Preservation and cassette copies made.

Index/Finding Aid Note Summary available (1 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 48 leaves) 
Subjects Brown, Warren, - 1965- - Interviews.  |  Cartoonists - Australia - Interviews.
Occupation Cartoonists.
Other authors/contributors Turner, Ann, 1929-2011

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