Comics

Date: [2000-2009]

From: Watkins, Gareth, 1972-: PrideNZ collection

By: New Zealand AIDS Foundation; New Zealand. Ministry of Health

Reference: MS-Papers-12747-03

Description: Printed ephemera from the 2000s collected by Gareth Watkins for PrideNZ. Comprises: - New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) testing and counselling information card - '...and then he kissed me...' NZAF fold-out informational comic strip - Ten assorted photographic postcards from getiton.co.nz and NZAF - 'Flatout Pride' Community Radio Hamilton information card - 'Takataapui' NZAF fold-out booklet - 'Bullfighter's Guide' NZAF booklet - 'Preventing HIV infection' Ministry of Health brochure, October 2005 - 'HIV+ Men's Retreat 2007' brochure - 'UNI Q's queer guide to Wellington' brochure, circa 2006 - Three orders of service for Daniel Fielding (19 October 2005), Jonathan Spencer Dennis (29 January 2002), and Roderick Bruce MacLeod-Morrison (30 November 2002) - 'Gay activist discovered fulfilment in remission' newspaper article, about Daniel Edmund Fielding, circa 2005 - 'The Awhina Centre has moved' flyer, 2008 - Sister Paula Antoinette Bretkelly funeral programme, 3 September 2008 - 'Homophobia is prejudice or discrimination against gay or Takatāpui people. Who are you hurting? He aha te utu?' campaign information Title taken from label in original enclosure. Arrangement: Delivered to the Library in a plastic sleeve labelled "2000s inc. a couple of DVDs" inside file box one. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 26 pieces of ephemera.. Transfers: 'Pacific Voices' disc removed from original enclosure is at Library reference OHDVD-0324.. Processing information: Material removed from plastic sleeve and rehoused in archival enclosure for conservation and storage purposes. Plastic sleeve not retained by Library.

Date: 2009-2019

By: Laing, Sarah Elizabeth, 1973-

Reference: ATL-Group-00943

Description: Collection comprises original works by fiction writer and graphic artist Sarah Laing. Includes original comics of Laing's autobiographical webcomic 'Let me be Frank' (2009-2019); a partial manuscript of 'Mansfield and Me' (2016); illustrations from Laing's novel 'The Fall of Light' (2013); and eight sketchbooks which complement these three works. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 5 original cartoon(s) water colour and pen on A4 paper. 2 box(es). Processing information: Most recent accrual to this collection has not yet been processed by staff.

Date: 2015

By: Mouldey, Gavin, active 2015

Reference: Eph-C-LITERATURE-2015-01

Description: Poster announcing a programme of events at Wellington City Library where one could "meet Weta's Chris Guise, Sunday Star Times cartoonist Sharon Murdoch, Moth City creator Tim Gibson and Sarah Laing of Victoria University Press". The poster shows a comic illustration by G Mouldey of Dittybox.co.nz. There is a reference to more details on the website at wcl.govt.nz/comicfest. The names of sponsors and related interest groups appear at the lower edge: Pikitia Press, Unity Books, Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Book Council, Wellington City Council, Graphic. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 420 x 297 mm.

Date: 1900 - 1902

Reference: A-470-003

Description: Shows two young Dutch men, 'Dirk' and 'Hans', smoking pipes while being painted black and dressing in the native garb of islanders of the 'Nieuw-Zeeland', putting on a performance before a Dutch audience, primarily women and children. The sheet concludes with an irate mother, demanding her money back and dragging her young son away from the theatre Other Titles - The counterfeit natives [translation] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured series of 16 wood engravings, each 73 x 57 mm, on sheet 400 x 295 mm Provenance: Purchase: Antipodean Books, Garrison, New York, July 2015

Date: 1984

From: Various artists :[Posters advertising performances by popular music groups, singers, musicians, and rock bands performing in New Zealand in 1984].

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Popular-1984-15

Description: Shows a comic strip about characters called Dennis, Wax Max and Pauline. A shoot-out is involved. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print with colour highlights, 601 x 430 mm.

Date: 1984

From: Various artists :[Posters advertising performances by popular music groups, singers, musicians, and rock bands performing in New Zealand in 1984].

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Popular-1984-07a

Description: Shows two semi-abstract multi-eyed figures overwashed with colour. Exhibited in 'Wellingtonzone: 50 years of popular music' exhibition curated by Clark Stiles and Rhonda Grantham at the Turnbull Room, National Library of New Zealand, 27 June - 6 October 2002. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, with felt pen and dye wash, 595 x 430 mm.

Date: 2011 - 2012

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to roads, road building and maintenance, motorways in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-ROAD-2011-01

Description: Booklet in comic strip style, criticising the proposed motorway to the Wellington airport, and championing an electric rail system. Critical of the New Zealand transport Agency and Infratil. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 175 x 149 mm. Provenance: The item was created by Tim Bollinger who gave it to Michael Brown.

Date: 2010, 2018-2020

By: Orchard, Samuel, 1984-

Reference: ATL-Group-00437

Description: Selection of comics created for Rooster Tails, an autobiographical webcomic by Sam Orchard about "life as a queer transguy" in Aotearoa. Originally published at www.roostertailscomic.com. Sam Orchard is a New Zealand comic artist and illustrator, and creator of the webcomic, "Rooster Tails" (2010 - onward), which explores transgender and queer experience and identity. Quantity: 88 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2001-2012

By: Buist, Grant, 1973-; Capital times (Newspaper)

Reference: DC-Group-0041

Description: Cartoons by Grant Buist who writes Jitterati (a satire on latte sipping cafe values; as well as contemporary political and social developments) for the weekly Wellington City newspaper The Capital Times. Includes several main characters including Jaimee Buchanan (a redhaired librarian), Debbie (a blonde PA) and Tony (a Maori actor). Occasionally the cartoon strip is visited by other Buist cartoon characters including Fitz (a pink psycho-bunny) and Brunswick (a yellow rodent). Part of the NZ Cartoon Archive Grant Buist (born 1973 in Wellington), is a New Zealand cartoonist and animator who produced the cult comic strip Brunswick from 1993 to 2003, and Jitterati from 2001. Jitterati was first published in Wellington's City Voice newspaper, which folded suddenly in 2001. From there, Jitterati was picked up by the Capital Times, until the Capital Times closed down in April 2013, after 540 episodes of the cartoon strip. In June 2013, the Wellington magazine, FishHead began publishing Jitterati comics. Quantity: 491 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1997

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[8 original strip cartoons drawn for Metro magazine ca 1996-1997].

Reference: A-129-124

Description: Cartoon comic strip shows two trampers in the Fiordland region. One tells the other about an antisocial former DOC employee, Hugh Woolston, who had been in these parts looking for the South Island kokako, and they wonder what became of him. Behind a tree a man in fur skin waits, and kills both trampers with his knife, thus ensuring that noone will ever find the orange wattled South Island kokako, as they perch on his arm in this sanctuary which he calls "the last of Paradise!". Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 67 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and coloured pencil on sheet 297 x 420 mm.

Date: 2010

From: [Ephemera up to octavo size relating to rental cars, taxis and taxi services]

By: Horrocks, Dylan, 1966-; Papakura District (N.Z.). District Council

Reference: Eph-A-MOTOR-HIRE-2010-01

Description: Pamphlet in the form of a comic strip story about Stu and Zoe who leave a party, both having been drinking. After some discussion and consideration of the disastrous consequences of drink driving, they decide to take a taxi. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on pages of pamphlet folded to 211 x 150 mm. Provenance: Collected in Auckland in September 2010.

Date: 2000-2018

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DC-Group-0035-03

Description: "Just Practising" cartoon strip featuring the trials and tribulations of Dr Hal and Dr Dolly as they tackle the day to day realities of general practice. Part of the NZ Cartoon Archive

Date: 1987 - 1993

By: New Zealand Public Service Association; Robinson, Barbara, active 1990s

Reference: Eph-D-PSA-1990-01

Description: Poster expressing the value that working women have to the community. The central "female" logo frames a map of New Zealand. Around the sides are illustrations of women engaged in various work: microscopist in a laboratory, receptionist, housewife, recreation guide, political activist demanding EEO, computer inputter, and cinematographer. Other Titles - Public Service Association Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 595 x 420 mm.

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Hiscocks, Eceldowne Frederick, 1879-; Clark, Laurence, 1949-; Silver, Burton Frederick Roux, 1945-

Reference: A-461-001/014

Description: Quantity: 14 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, varying sizes Provenance: Donation: Mr Don Milne, Auckland, August 2013

Date: 1990

From: Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951- :[Illustrations, sketches and design drawings for publications. 1970-2000]

Reference: C-146-016/066

Description: Set of pencil drawings for "Terry and the last moa" by Bob Kerr and Stephen Ballantyne. Other related design drawings, text and watercolours are housed at: C-144-001/094. Quantity: 51 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by Bob Kerr, Wellington, in 2006.

Date: 1968 - 1978

By: International Wool Secretariat; Evans, Norma Mae, 1924-2017

Reference: Eph-D-WOOL-1970s-01/07

Description: Includes: Wool has natural affinity for dye - keeps its colour beauty (shows sheep drinking red wine (3 copies) Wool has natural insulation ... is warmest (Shows sheep on a toboggan) Wool has natural flame-resistance - is safest (Shows sheep wearing a fireman's helmet and medal) Wool has natural elasticity - is most comfortable (Shows sheep bouncing over hurdles) Wool naturally absorbs moisture vapor - never feels clammy (Shows sheep playing tennis) Wool has natural beauty - looks best (Shows sheep painting a picture) (3 copies) Wool has natural drape - tailors best (3 copies) Date possibly estimated from "Wool; a history of New Zealand's wool industry", by Bill Carter and John MacGibbon (Wellington, 2003), page 287. Quantity: 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, 710 x 505 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1950

By: Paterson, Alan Stuart, 1902-1968; Angus, Don, active 1938

Reference: E-961-q

Description: A series of cartoons in strip form, covering a variety of topics, including: the outbreak and resulting ongoing conflict of World War II; farming issues; taxi drivers being likened to ships' captains; parliamentary debates; sports, including horseracing, golf and rugby; regularly-appearing characters called 'Our Uncle James' and 'Litte Eric'; rabbit-fur coats in men's fashion; growing vegetables in flower containers; and swimming in the sea as recreation, amongst other local and national topics Other cartoonists represented in the scrapbook include Don Angus and 'BIM' (one cartoon each; the cartoon by Angus ia also at A-312-2-003l, and is digitised) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Newspaper cuttings adhered to paper [50 p], cover of card and attached with staples, 345 x 235 mm (cover) Provenance: Donation: Christine Clement, Te Puke, August 2014

Date: 1997

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[8 original strip cartoons drawn for Metro magazine ca 1996-1997].

Reference: A-129-128

Description: Cartoon comic strip two paramedics leanig over a young man who has fallen, possibly from a second storey balcony, and is lying in blood or a spilled can of red paint. They give him an injection, and he feels himself to be falling through textures and patterns, landing with a "Whumph!". The male paramedic covers him with a grey blanket and says "He's gone". Other Titles - Second storey Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 65 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and gouache on sheet 300 x 420 mm.

Date: 1997

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[8 original strip cartoons drawn for Metro magazine ca 1996-1997].

Reference: A-129-125

Description: Cartoon comic strip shows an elegant thin-faced man about to drink some green liquid in a glass. After he has drunk it he turns green, skeletal, monstrous and finally sinks down, coming out of the fit, and combs his hair as he proceeds to the broadcasting studio, where he has become a jovial roundfaced television sports presenter, Philip Leishman. Other Titles - Phillip Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 66 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and coloured pencil on sheet 297 x 420 mm.

Date: 1997

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[8 original strip cartoons drawn for Metro magazine ca 1996-1997].

Reference: A-129-127

Description: Cartoon comic strip shows an erect ape coming across a plot of toadstools in a forest. He exclaims "Garg!" and eats several, but begins to feel strange, and hallucinates that the forest trees are snakes and skulls. He regurgitates the toadstools into a streaming pile on the ground, and feels puzzled "Garg?" Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 71 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and coloured pencil on sheet 300 x 420 mm.