Stop Laughing: This Is Serious! The Life and Work of Stan Cross ( creator of The Potts comic strip )

Vane Lindesay

ISBN 10: 0522849806 / ISBN 13: 9780522849806

Published by Melbourne University Press,, Australia, 2001

About this Item

Illustrated with Stan Cross's cartoons, b/w photos. Neat owner name top rh fep o/w unmarked very good hb/dw.

Seller Inventory # 005131

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stop Laughing: This Is Serious! The Life and Work of Stan Cross ( creator of The Potts comic strip )
• Publisher: Melbourne University Press,, Australia
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0522849806
• ISBN 13: 9780522849806
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1 kilogram
• Seller catalogs:
  • Australiana
  • Humour

About this title

Synopsis

The black-and-white art of Stan Cross, cartoonist and comic-strip creator, was known and loved throughout Australia for over 50 years. The creator of Wally and the Major and the Potts, his most famous work is the cartoon “For gorsake, stop laughing: this is serious!” This book contains 140 classic images from Stan Cross’s oeuvre and sets his life in the context of the remarkable history of black-and-white art and cartooning in Australia.

About the Author

Vane Lindesay is an artist, writer, and book designer. He is author of The Inked-In Image and Drawing From Life. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.