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Latitude
-27.467778
Longitude
153.028056
Start Date
1954-01-01
End Date
1954-01-01

Description

Sources

ID
tb9c43

Extended Data

DAAO URL
https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gary-clark
Birth Place
Brisbane, Qld., Australia
Biography
cartoonist, lives in Brisbane where he draws the 'Swamp’ comic strip for the Sydney Daily Telegraph ; it won the 1985 Stanley Award for best comic strip. He has published several anthologies: Life goes on in the swamp (Broadway Qld, G. Clark, 1982), Up to the neck in the swamp: selected strips from the swamp (Broadway Qld, Swamp Productions, c.1984), and The official biography of the world’s worst flying student: Ding Duck (Paddington, Qld: Swamp Productions, 1991) – 'annuals’, according to Patrick. Several 'Swamp’ originals are in the SLQ (no.5107 uncat. and undated), including roughs with comments on Clark’s working method, e.g. all are worked out on an A4 pad. Clark also wrote Yumurrkuwa garkman beyanina (Yirrkala Community School Literature Production Centre, 1985: ML Q499.15/311) and, with David A.M. Lea, Aurukun and community planning, 1991-1995, practice and policy: a report for the Manth Thayan Association, the Peninsula Regional Council of ATSIC, and ATSIC Region Office, Cairns (Brisbane, Qld State Office of ATSIC: Peninsula Regional Council, 1995, ML Q307.1209943/1) and Irrmarne community development planning project: preliminary report on first visit, July 1995 (Armidale NSW: David Lea, 1995). Writers: Kerr, Joan Date written: 1996 Last updated: 2007
Born
b. 1954
Summary
Contemporary Brisbane newspaper cartoonist and author.
Gender
Male
Died
None listed
Age at death
None listed