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

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: 1996

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

Reference: A-129-122

Description: Cartoon comic strip shows Douglas Myers, executive of Lion Nathan, heading home to his house and watching the television news which reports on violence in a city hotel, fatalities caused by drunk drivers, and the correlation between domestic violence and alcohol. His face is expressionless. The last frame shows an impassive Myers standing in front of a Lion Breweries sign, being asked by reporters how his wealth makes him feel. Other Titles - Tonight's 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-129-128

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.

Date: 1996

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

Reference: A-129-123

Description: Cartoon comic strip shows figures rising from their graves, and making their way in the dark as a group, towards a garage. Inside a band is practising (guitarist, bass guitarist with punk hairdo, drummer and vocalist). The dead demand that the noise be kept down so that they can rest. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 96 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-129-129

Description: Cartoon comic strip shows a car accident where a mother drives herself an her son over a narrow road from a cliff. The doctor advises her husband that she has suffered ten years' memory loss and therefore does not recognise her son when he visits. He brings her a present while she is doing the dishes; she is self-absorbed and self-pitying. His face has two sides, one young and blond, the other green, horned, scarred, fixated on drugs. Later he wanders the dark streets. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 64 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-129-126

Description: Cartoon comic strip shows an imagined scene in the year 2025, in the pink interior of a railway carriage full of punk passengers. An elderly punk woman gets on and is offered a seat. She responds by hitting the offerer over the head with her cane, calling him a "cheeky young bastard!". In her youth, people showed less respect for their elders. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 68 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and gouache on sheet 300 x 420 mm.