Mark Knight interviewed by Ann Turner for the Comic artists and illustrators oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1857682
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Knight, Mark, 1962-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1998 Jun. 5
- 3 digital audio tapes (ca. 143 min.)
- Series:
- Comic artists and illustrators oral history project.
- Summary:
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Knight speaks of working class family background and growing up in Sydney, his schooling where he enjoyed German, biology and art, his early interest in drawing and drew for the school magazine, how he visited the artists on the staff of the Sydney Morning Herald including Rafty, Molnar and Emerick and built up a portfolio of his own work to show the art director at the Herald, his cadetship at the Sydney Morning Herald which was mostly menial work with only two afternoons a week cartooning, the development of his illustrating and cartooning style in particular under the instruction of illustrator Frank Beck, undertook life drawing at Sydney Art College one day a week, his experience illustrating for Sydney Herald and Sun Herald starting with a pocket cartoon for the front page, working as an illustrator for the Herald and Sun Herald in particular filling in when Cook left on holidays, his style much influenced by Tandberg, Mitchell and Cook, the importance of the idea behind the illustration, how he had a serious accident to his hand travelling through Europe especially the art galleries while recovering, resumed his full-time cartooning for the Financial Review in particular travelling to Canberra with the journalists to observe politicians in action, the influence of Geoff Pryor, his move to the Melbourne Herald, his view of censorship and self-censorship on grounds of taste, his travelling experiences such as to the States in 1988 to cover the Bush presidential election, his work patterns to reach his deadlines, his work for Challenge a support group for children with cancer, his work on an animated film for these children, computer graphics incorporating caricatures and portraits.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on June 5, 1998.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Summary available (1 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 54 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Cartoonists
- Other authors/contributors:
- Turner, Ann, 1929-2011, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Comic artists and illustrators oral history project.
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- Creation date:
- 1998
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