painter and illustrator, illustrated stories in Australia Week-end Book 1 (1942), e.g. drawing for Z.V. Webb’s 'Defeat’; a fat lady running from a fire for 'Fire!’, an article by Eva Linn; a bloodhound jumping at its German owner in order to eat him (but a very cheerful image) for M.W. Peacock’s 'In the Dead of Night’ (a Jewish Concentration Camp horror story), p.68; and a flying man for Don Edwards’s 'My Too Successful Pupil’, 106. Others in no.2 (1943) include p.68 (family looking at moon). In vol.3 (1944) his illustrations are mostly rather dark and straight, with a couple that are more linear, e.g. Yank soldier trying to shoot a dog for George M. Welch’s short story 'Vicksburg’ (60), a woman reading a newspaper for 'Appointment with Death’ by Jonathan Keon; a shopkeeper talking to a client for Gene Dowell’s 'The Great Australian Crime’, p.137 and a waitress pushing a plate onto a soldier’s chest for 'Reaction’ by Robina Sherwood (176). Nos 4 (1945) and 5 (1946) also have numerous small illustrated heads by Kilgour to the stories.

Stone lists 'J. Kilgour’ as one of the two artists who contributed to the one-off Offset Printing Company comic Action (c.1944) along with 'Theo”; he illustrated a story called 'Ronald Keene’. Mick Stone also attributes The Judy O’Neil Comic (c.1947) to Kilgour, but this looks far more like Kate O’Brien (ill. p.145).

Husband of painter Nancy Kilgour .

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Writers:

Kerr, Joan

Date written:

1996

Last updated:

2007