Geoff Hook interviewed by Ann Turner for the Comic artists and illustrators oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1857692
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Hook, Jeff, 1928-2018, 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 Jun. 6
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 93 min.)
- Series:
- Comic artists and illustrators oral history project.
- Summary:
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Geoff Hook, cartoonist, speaks of his family background and his childhood in a Catholic family in Hobart, his education at St. Virgil's Catholic school, his early interest in drawing as there were few prints or books in the house, his mother playing the piano, lack of political discussion in the home until World War II began, apprenticed to his carpenter father but was unsuccessful at it, how he enrolled in the Art Society of Tasmania, his painting and exhibition of watercolour landscapes, clerical work in the Dept. of Labour and Industry and then the Land Titles Office, taking night classes at Hobart Technical College lead to him getting appointed as a cadet press artist with the Hobart Mercury, his part-time cartooning and weekly strip for the Hobart Mercury, influenced by Southey, Benier, Mercier, WEP, McCrae, Rigby, Low and Giles, the importance of the idea behind the cartoon, his move from 1967 to Melbourne's Sun News Pictorial to be their daily Editiorial Cartoonist until 1993 when the Herald and the Sun merged in the Herald Sun and he was joined by Herald cartoonist Mark Knight, censorship and self-censorship, his working routines and themes, illustrating for childrens' and sporting books, his travels in South-East Asia, the United States, Europe on illustrating assignments, his travels to China, his exhibitions of watercolour paintings.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on June 6, 1998 in Melbourne, Vic.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-206500127
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Summary (1 p.) and draft uncorrected transcript available.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Cartoonists
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Comic artists and illustrators oral history project.
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- Creation date:
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