Cappy Crepuscule’s debut

Old-fashioned music with an old-fashioned twist as Cappy Crepuscule and his Rhythm Boys reprise a classic old Australian song in their uniquely idiosyncratic ‘Like it or not and see if we give a hoot’ fashion, with illustrations by Emile Mercier, Sydney’s most popular cartoonist from the 1940s to the 1980s, together with paintings and drawings by Linzee Nold and Michael Armstrong.

Emile Mercier rediscovered

Emile Mercier was possibly Australia’s best-loved cartoon humourist.

He created many satirical characters and parodies of comic heroes of the period, all presented in his unique Australian colloquial style.

His serialised stories ran through such a diversity of comic book titles from wartime through the 1940s that it seems unlikely that many readers could have followed every episode.

The collections in these books are a partial attempt to redress this, and perhaps help to rescue some of Mercier’s work from the unjustified oblivion which ensnares so much of our “popular culture”.

Emile Mercier Rediscovered Book 1

Emile Mercier Rediscovered Book 2

Five complete big serials from the 1940s
ISBN 9780648099642

Emile Mercier Rediscovered Book 3

Six big stories from the 1940s
ISBN 9780648099659