Pyndar Willis

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Colonial period Adelaide cartoonist and caricaturist.
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cartoonist and caricaturist, worked in South Australia on the weekly Port Adelaide newspaper The Portonian, published 1871-81 (scrapbook in the Mitchell Library [ML]). With A.S. Broad he also contributed cartoons to Figaro, a magazine published in 1877 by D. Kinner Brown of Pirie Street, Adelaide (copies in the ML), which began as Peepshow (for five months) and was later re-named South Australian Figaro. Pyndar Willis’s caricatures, Barrister-at-Law and The Honourable John, were included in Figaro's lithographic series 'Men of the Day’ on 4 July 1877 (Caban p.13).

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

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