Les Tanner interviewed by Ann Turner for the Comic artists and illustrators oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 346798
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Tanner, Les (Leslie Mervyn), 1927-2001, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1998
- 3 digital audio tapes (ca. 119 min.) + transcript
- Series:
- Comic artists and illustrators oral history project.
- Summary:
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Tanner speaks of his working class family background and his childhood in Sydney in the early 1930s-1940s; education in N.S.W. Public schools; access to Grace Brothers and School of Arts libraries; his interest in art, entering into drawing competitions; becoming a packer at Woolworths aged 15 years, then a printer's devil at the Daily Telegraph, his studies at the Julian Ashton Art School; his move from the mail room to the press artists room in 1944 as an illustrator, influence of Bill Pidgeon on his art; his army service with the occupying forces in Japan; Communist Party membership; working for the Daily Sketch (London); the influence the cartooning of Searle had on him; his job with The Bulletin, later on having produced a publication with Peter Coleman entitled Cartoons of Australian History.
Tanner speaks about his job as the Daily Editorial Cartoonist for the Age (Melbourne, 1967); his view of censorship; his travels and drawings in Asia; his long running column in the Saturday Age which became the basis for his publication Tanner with Words; his collection of cartoon entitled Tantalising Years; the influence of technological change on cartooning style.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on June 7 & Dec. 1, 1998 in Fitzroy, Vic.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-206504979
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Summary available (1 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 27 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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- Unpublished
- Creation date:
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