Will Donald

Also known as Will J. Donald, William John Donald, Bill Donald, Will D.
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Early 20th century cartoonist and comic book artist.

Citations

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art, vol 2, p 122’, facsimile reprint, 1980.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1979), 'The inked-in image’.

  • Dunstan, Alan Katen (November 1994), '“Broke-N-Ill The Writing on the Wall”: Cartoons from around the “Lock-Out” 1909-1910’, Broken Hill, New South Wales: Broken Hill Art Gallery, .

  • Donald, Will (c.1940), 'Dad, Dave and Daisy: The New Aussie Comic’, Sydney, New South Wales: NSW Bookstall Company, also dated 1917.

  • Muir, Marcie, 'vol.1 no.2057’.

  • Donald, Will (1917), 'Kids’ Cannon’, Sydney, New South Wales: W. Penfold.

  • Donald, Will, 'The Man in the Silent House’, Sydney, New South Wales: NSW Bookstall Company.

  • Donald, Will, 'Island of Amazement!’, Sydney, New South Wales: NSW Bookstall Company.

  • Donald, Will, 'Captain Katseye’, Sydney, New South Wales: NSW Bookstall Company.

  • Donald, Will (c.1940), 'Mystery Island’, Sydney, New South Wales: NSW Bookstall Company.

  • Donald, Will (c.1940), 'Skelt Dorgan’s Treasure’, Sydney, New South Wales: NSW Bookstall Company.

  • Donald, Will (c.1940), 'Rod the Reckless’, Sydney, New South Wales: NSW Bookstall Company.

  • Donald, Will (c.1940), 'Special Messenger’, Sydney, New South Wales: NSW Bookstall Company.

  • Donald, Will (c.1940), 'Meet Hitler’, Sydney, New South Wales: NSW Bookstall Company.

  • Donald, Will (1940), 'Hitler’s Dream’, Sydney, New South Wales: NSW Bookstall Company.

  • Information sourced from Gibbney.

  • King, Jonathon (1979), 'The other side of the coin : a cartoon history of Australia’, Sydney, NSW : Cassell (revised edition).

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Victoria (2nd edn).

  • Mills, Carol (1991), 'The New South Wales Bookstall as a Publisher’, Canberra.

  • Ryan, John (1979), 'Panel by panel : a history of Australian comics’, Stanmore, NSW : Cassell Australia,.

  • Senyard, June (1991), 'Labor in cartoons : Cartoons of the Australian Labor Party in Victoria 1891-1990’, Melbourne, Vic : Hyland House.

  • Shiell, A. (ed.) (1998), 'Bonzer: Australian Comics 1900s-1990s’, Victoria: Elgua Media.

  • Shiell, Annette and Ingrid Unger (1994), 'Ace Biographical Portraits… 1930s-1990s’, Clayton, Victoria: National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University.

See also

  • 'Self portrait, Gadfly 18 Dec 1907, 15; good original self-portrait with aged self holding out a cup for pennies behind young self seated drawing, captioned: "I'm Not A Futurist Artist So Don't Wait Until I'm Old. Give Us A Few Bob NOW!" National Library of Australia, Canberra'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists