cartoonist, initialled Society’s Grim Shadow for War Cry , which was reproduced in Tocsin on 28 June 1900, 5. It shows a woman, 'Luxury’, creating a shadow, 'Want’. There is some speculation that the artist was the Melburnian George Benson (b.1886).

Benson, however, was too young to be the 'G.B.’ who initialled the cartoon Trying to Raise a Flame , published in New Zealand Punch in 1880 (ill. Grant, p.28 as 'G.R.’). The latter, done in a very traditional London Punch caricature style showing 'Betsy Bryce’, a bearded politician in women’s dress, and Mr Punch together in a cooking pot labelled 'Taranaki’, was undoubtedly by a NZ cartoonist.

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Writers:

Kerr, Joan

Date written:

1996

Last updated:

2007