O. Kay

Also known as:
  • O. K. (monogram)
  • Olga Kay (Speculation)
  • Pamela Kay (Speculation)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mid 20th century cartoonist who signed or monogrammed various cartoons in Australia: National Journal and Australia Week-end Book with the initials 'OK'
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
O. Kay
Also known as:
  • O. K. (monogram)
  • Olga Kay (Speculation)
  • Pamela Kay (Speculation)
Gender
Unknown
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Active Period
  • c.1941- c.1944
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

cartoonist, signed or monogrammed ('OK’) various cartoons in Australia: National Journal and Australia Week-end Book . Kay had eight gags in no.1 (1942) including one of soldiers and angels playing quoits with haloes (“I stopped them playing two-up, and now look!”), six in no.2 (1943) including a cannibal joke (80) and one of an angel seeking shelter from AA shells with a priest; two in vol.3 (1944) including one of two old men looking at two female army officers: “Well, Bill, Lord help the Japs when those brawny Scotsmen lay their hands on them”.

[An Olga Kay married Alexis “Timothy” Gorbow Gorback in North Sydney in 1942. There is some speculation that she might be O. Kay. Another possibilty is Bulletin cartoonist Pamela Kay .]

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
Citations:
  • NSW Death Records 4131/1967
  • NSW Marriage Records 24065/1942, 23251/1950
  • (1944), Australia Week-end [Book 3], (Place: Ure Smith, Sydney, NSW)
  • (1943), Australia Week-end [Book 2], (Place: Ure Smith, Sydney, NSW)
  • (1942), Australia Week-end [Book 1], (Place: Ure Smith, Sydney, NSW)
  • Australia : National Journal, (Place: Ure Smith, Sydney, NSW)