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Latitude
-37.7168415
Longitude
145.0069944
Start Date
1949-01-01
End Date
1949-01-01

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ID
tb9d6f

Extended Data

DAAO URL
https://www.daao.org.au/bio/barry-dickens
Birth Place
Reservoir, Victoria, Australia
Biography
illustrator/cartoonist, playwright and writer, was born at Reservoir, Victoria. He was a member of the early 1970s theatre and poetry group at Melbourne’s La Mama, and his first play, Ghosts , was produced there in 1974. He contributed humorous articles and detailed line drawings of comically decrepit/degenerate people and social issues to various Melbourne journals. Drawings published in Overland include: “Good gord, a bloody fish!” (two winos fishing in the Yarra River) 57 (Summer 1973), 48; cover no.59 (Spring 1974); [Melbourne] Luna Park face with teeth pulled out (like dentures) no.74 (1979), 22. See file for others, including Fitzroy St, Melbourne (no originals). He wrote and illustrated 'Teeth’, reprinted Michael Sharkey, The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Humour (Melbourne: OUP, 1988), pp.267-269. 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. 1949
Summary
1970s Melbourne illustrator/cartoonist, playwright and writer.
Gender
Male
Died
None listed
Age at death
None listed