M. J. Perston

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Early 20th century political cartoonist
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cartoonist, drew the cover of the penny, anti-Sinn Fein, pro-conscription magazine Comment and Cartoons 1/1 (30 November 1917) edited by Joseph Milner Macmaster, published Melbourne. His “NOW, Australia, Choke the Brute!” shows an allegorical female Australia attempting to throttle a wolf labelled 'Disloyalty’. The same issue contained his Go Slow I.W.W. Sinn Fein Anti-Britishers pro German Disloyalist , a weaker drawing of man blowing a giant bubble captioned: 'It’s not a bomb, it’s a BLADDER. Prick it with YES, Dec. 20.’ Other cartoonists on the magazine were “Boz” and G.H. Rolfe.

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Kerr, Joan Note:
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007

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