Les Tanner b. 15 June 1927

Also known as Leslie Mervyn Tanner
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Influential mid 20th century political cartoonist. Tanner worked as a cartoonist for the Melbourne Age for 30 years as well as contributing to a number of other publications. The controversial 1967 Bulletin issue which attacked the Victorian Government's decision to hang criminal Ronald Ryan, and which featured a cartoon by Tanner, was pulped on the orders of Sir Frank Packer.

Citations

  • Walsh, R. (1966), 'No Holts Barred’.

  • Tanner, Les, 'Tanner With Words’.

  • Adams, Phillip (1986), 'Arrest that Cartoonist!’, Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin.

  • Bridges, J.; & Heimann, R. (1988), 'Australia, the Cartoon’, Carlton, Vic : McCulloch (biog. & 3 cartoons).

  • Coleman, P.; & Tanner, L. (1967), 'Cartoons of Australian History’, Melbourne, Vic : Nelson.

  • Coleman, Peter (1966), 'The Joker and the Thief’, Crossings 1/2, pp 10-13.

  • Filmer, V. (1983), Ballarat, Victoria : Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.

  • Foyle, Lindsay (2001), '(obituary)’, Australian, 07-27, p 12.

  • Germaine, Max (1979), 'Artists and galleries of Australia and New Zealand’, Sydney, NSW : Lansdowne Editions.

  • King, R. (1979), 'The other side of the coin : a cartoon history of Australia’, Stanmore, NSW : Cassell Australia (Rev. ed.).

  • Petty, Bruce; and Spooner, John (2001), 'Obituaries (separately)’, Sydney Morning Herald, 07-26, p 30.

  • Rafty, Tony with Mack, Brodie (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, Sydney, New South Wales: Blaxland Gallery, September.

  • Rolfe, P. (1979), 'The journalistic javelin – an illustrated history of the Bulletin’, Gladesville, NSW : Wildcat Press, [distributed by Golden Press], p 271.

  • Stone, Walter (1973), ’50 years of the newspaper cartoon in Australia’, Adelaide, SA : The News, Adelaide in association with the Art Gallery of South Australia, p 82.

  • Turner, Ann (2000), Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia (NLA Oral History interviews).

  • Coleman, Peter (1997), 'The Bulletin, the editor and the Cherry Orchard: A tale of the 1960s’, Canberra, ACT : Voices (Autumn) , pp 88-95.

  • Tanner, Les (1989), 'A war that caught the artists napping’, Sydney Morning Herald, 09-12, p 11.

  • Tanner, Les (1996), ''Margaret (Peg) Tanner’ (obituary for his wife)’, Sydney Morning Herald, 05-30.

  • Sydney, NSW: Daily Telegraph.

  • 'British Commonwealth Occupation Newspaper’, Osaka, Japan.

  • Sydney, NSW: AM.

  • London, UK; Daily Sketch.

  • Melbourne, Vic. : Age.

  • Sydney, NSW: Bulletin.

See also

  • 'Self-portrait in 'Australia's magnificent cartoonists', Bulletin 12 November 1985, p 95, (ill. King, p 161).'.
  • 'Self-portrait on front page of the Melbourne Age, 9 June 1976, with Nicholson, Petty, Spooner and Tandberg as 'Australia's finest gallery of cartoonists'.'.
  • '(Rioting crowd burning down building in background and elderly couple in room with packed trunks in foreground): "It's ghastly, Cynthia. We're safe, but they think we're Australians", Bulletin 1963 (ill. Rolfe, 307).'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists