Design and Art Australia Online

Poster, 'You need Medibank – Medibank needs you’, offset print on paper, cartoon designed by Bruce Petty, printed for Australian Council of Trade Unions by Industrial Printing and Publicity Company Limited, Richmond, Victoria, Australia, 1975-1976

Portrait format poster in yellow and black print on white paper depicting 'The Medimess’ cartoon in which the large multi-footed, multi-headed and multi-handed, banner waiving, 'Medimess’ monster stomps 'Medibank’, a goggled, gloved and masked medical practitioner, into the floor. A figure wearing dark sunglasses stands to the right of the 'Medimess’ monster, pumping gas into a sleeping Australia. Across the top above the cartoon in black print reads 'You need medibank – medibank needs you’ and below the cartoon is 'support medibank and medibank private’ in black and white .

Read more: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=319724#ixzz1PnH6rY1p
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial