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Extended Data

DAAO URL

https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gerald-carr

Birth Place

Bendigo, Vic., Australia

Biography

cartoonist, comic strip artist and book illustrator, was born in Bendigo. After studying art at Bendigo Technical College for 4 years, he moved to Sydney and worked for W.G. Grainger Publications lettering all-colour gravure Disney comics. In 1967 he returned to Melbourne, worked for a printing company and advertising agency and started work on his strip Brigette , syndicated from 1969 (published in the Sun Herald 1980). His first comic book, Wart’s Epic , was self-published in Melbourne in 1970 and distributed to the US by mail order. He began drawing Devil Doone for K.G. Murray in 1971 and wrote, illustrated and published his own comic books from 1974. His horror comic series Vampire! was professionally printed for national distribution in 1975. In 1980 he was producing Brigette for the Sydney Sun-Herald and published three one-shots in the 1980s – Brain Master and Vixen , Fire-Fang (1982) and Stock Raider . He also did advertising and book illustration. In 1992 he published Vixen (distributed in Australia and the USA). In 1992 he won a 'cartoon of the year’ award. His strip The Dirty Digger first appeared in Southern Aurora’s Australian War Stories in 1994. According to Kevin Fletcher (review of Bonzer ed. A. Shiell in ABC 109, August 1999, 31-32), Carr has continually self-published a range of science fiction, superhero and horror comics since 1970 and for a time was the only publisher of locally produced comics. Writers: Kerr, Joan Date written: 1996 Last updated: 2007

Born

b. 1944

Summary

Late 20th century cartoonist, comic strip artist and book illustrator.

Gender

Male

Died

None listed

Age at death

None listed