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.
Category: Emile Mercier
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