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Latitude
-37.3536857
Longitude
144.5341381
Start Date
1897-01-01
End Date
1987-01-01

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ID
tb9143

Extended Data

Birth Place
Woodend, Victoria, Australia
Biography
cartoonist, illustrator and painter, contributed to the Bulletin circa WWI, e.g. The Payment of Salome (re German head on a platter) 27 April 1916, 13; The Expression Celestial . '[Aussie digger in France] 'BILLJIM: “Say, Gustave, tell me something nice to say to her.”/ GUSTAVE: “Say 'Vous etes ange!’”/ BILLJIM (doubtfully): “But what does 'ange’ mean?”/ GUSTAVE: “Oh, he mean – er – blankee bonzaire!’” 18 November 1917; Diagnosis (re sadistic doctor) 28 February 1918, 10. Colahan illustrated The Heart of the School: An Australian School Story (Melbourne, J. Roy Stevens, 1920) by Eustace Boylan, an Irish Jesuit priest who was Prefect of Studies at Xavier College, Melbourne, during the period his novel for boys is set. Colahan’s illustration in Niall (p.163) is a line drawing very like a cartoon. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography. Writers: Kerr, Joan Date written: 1996 Last updated: 2007
Born
b. 1897
Summary
Mid 20th century Melbourne meldrumite painter and a cartoonist.
Gender
Male
Died
1987
Age at death
90