illustrator and cartoonist, did the illustrations in John Fairfax’s Laughter in the Camp ed. Archer Russell (Warwick Boyce, Sydney, 1958), a posthumous collection of Fairfax’s essays (mostly WWII), journalism, book reviews and other occasional writings sponsored by his mother (who signed JK’s copy, 'With Compliments from the Author’s Mother’). Lenore O’Brien’s drawings include cartoons such as a couple in a caravan, a man in a tree trying to catch birds, three blokes in overalls dozing on their brooms (all on dustjacket as well as inside). Many of the illustrations, however, are fairly straight portraits of soldiers and representations of places, scenes and objects. The cartoons aren’t especially well drawn or funny (rather undergraduate and wooden/untaught, in fact).

[Possibly Sybil Lenore O’Brien, née Goodwin, who married Bernard O’Brien, Sydney, 1947, and died Campbelltown, NSW, 1969.]

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Writers:

Kerr, Joan

Date written:

1996

Last updated:

2007