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Cartoonist with bite, Dinah Priestley
Murdoch: The Cartoons of Sharon Murdoch Sharon Murdoch (with commentary by Melinda Johnston) Potton and Burton, $40.00, ISBN 9780947503239 Anne Tolley crouches watchfully inside a beneficiary’s uterus, high heels digging into the soft pink flesh, her two fists blocking the…
Tagged with: Dinah Priestley, Issue 118, Melinda Johnston, Potton and Burton, Sharon Murdoch, Winter 2017
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Pretence and defence, Melinda Johnston
Bromhead: Scratching a Living Peter Bromhead Penguin Books, $38.00, ISBN 9780143574200 In the Cartoon Archive at the Alexander Turnbull Library there is a marvellous ink caricature captioned “The loveable fun-loving Monsieur Bromhead”. Drawn in 2001 by caricaturist Dinah Priestley (a…
Tagged with: Issue 116, Melinda Johnston, Penguin Books, Peter Bromhead, Summer 2016
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
A quality of incision, Megan Dunn
Lateral Inversions: The Prints of Barry Cleavin Melinda Johnston Canterbury University Press, $55.00, ISBN 9781927145470 Lateral Inversions: The Prints of Barry Cleavin contains over 120 colour plates and is a beautifully produced book that affords serious consideration to Barry Cleavin’s…
Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Canterbury University Press, Issue 105, Megan Dunn, Melinda Johnston
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review