Allan Salisbury

Also known as Sols
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Contemporary comic strip artist, created the 'Snake Tales' strip which began as 'The Old Timer' in 1978.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
Allan Salisbury
Also known as Sols
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Active Period
  • c.1975- c.2006
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

comic strip artist, draws the Snake strip. It began as The Old Timer and changed to Snake Tales in 1978. There is some speculation that the earlier cartoons may be signed 'SOLS’.

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Australian Black and White Artists Club
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Collections
Citations:
  • (1986), Australian Black and White Artists Club book of originals, (Place: Sydney, NSW: Australian Black and White Artists Club / AGNSW (178.1988.1-102))
  • Salisbury, Allan, [other anthologies]
  • Salisbury, Allan, (c.1985), Introducing Snake, (Place: Horsham, Victoria: Ravette)
  • Hayllar, Tom and Sadler, Rex, (1982), Aussie Humour: Classic Australian humour from Henry Lawson and Lennie Lower to Dame Edna Everage, (Place: Melbourne, Vic.: Nelson, ills p. 90)