Cathy Wilcox interviewed by Ann Turner for the Comic artists and illustrators oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 272813
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Wilcox, Cathy, 1963-, 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
- 4 digital audio tapes (ca. 219 min.)
- Series:
- Comic artists and illustrators oral history project.
- Summary:
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Wilcox speaks of her conformist middle-class family background and her early interest in drawing, growing up in Sydney, her education at Abbotsleigh Girls' School, her scholarship to undertake drawing at secondary school, how she decided to undertake the Visual Communications course at Sydney College of the Arts, her part-time work for David Jones, the beginnings of her interest in political and social issues, how she undertook freelance drawings at the Sydney Morning Herald, her three years in France illustrating for a children's magazine and travelling Europe, how she continued to illustrate children's books on her return to Australia, how her pocket cartoons lead to full time employment with the Sydney Morning Herald, the influence of other cartoonists particularly Martin and Cook, her view of censorship, editorial cartooning, the attitude of the paper to women cartoonists, her working patterns, the development of her interest in political and social issues.
- Notes:
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Summary available (1 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 73 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- 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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- Until 2068 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1998
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