Optimism

Date: 2009 - 2010

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: Mary Potter Hospice (Wellington, N.Z.); Stevens, Graham, active 2009

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2010-02

Description: Calendar contains twelve openings, each with a photograph of older people engaged in enjoyable and sociable activities and tasks. The calendar was the idea of Margaret Pulman, and was produced with the help of Dot Stevens, Graham Stevens, Jeanette Murphy and Geraldine Sellens. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Calendar of twelve openings, 210 x 297 mm.

Date: 31 December 2009

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-354

Description: Shows a hour glass for the 2000s in which there is rocks instead of sand inside it. A man is inside the hour glass and is being squashed by the rocks. He says that it is best to have the 'glass half full' outlook. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - 3112A12CARTOON Thursday cartoon [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 230 x 340 mm

Date: 1980

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-721

Description: There are three scenes in this cartoon. In the upper scene a husband looks excited as his wife tells him they are going to buy Christmas presents. In the lower left he continues to look delighted as his wife asks him for money to buy the ideal present for him. In the lower right he is telling the bank teller how hilarious it is to withdraw money from his account. Extended Title - What better time to be cheerful than with the season of good cheer rapidly approaching? Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 450 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1982

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-102

Description: Shows five scenes in which people are finding ways of being optimistic about the economic situation: being sure of price rises in an uncertain world, raising prices on beer and tobacco only twice a year instead of three times, only ten years to go until Think Big projects are established and tax cuts can occur, inflation running at 15 per cent, not 'galloping', and Muldoon not admitting that his growth strategy isn't working. Extended Title - Well, even if he hasn't indicated anything much in the way of change for the tax payer, we could all have a go at not being pessimistic in the coming year Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 450 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1977 - 1978

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Editorial cartoons. [1970-1978].

Reference: B-124-020

Description: Shows four panels of a couple entering a tunnel, walking through eagerly towards a light, only to find it is an artificial electric light illuminating the sign "You are now entering 1978", and an arrow to indicate that one must continue along the tunnel. Other Titles - You are now entering 1978 Published in the New Zealand herald, ca 1 January 1978. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil, 270 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by the cartoonist in 1993.

Date: 1974

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-371

Description: Cartoon shows five vignettes: a businessman predicts bright prospects if his office-based golf putting practice can bring good results on the course; another businessman predicts a dismal six months while his mother-in-law is staying; another hopes to cushion financial setbacks with a win at the races and asks the interviewer for a racing tip; one is more worried about the 1974 financial situation and begs for a dollar; another believes in living for the present and offers his secretary a diamond bracelet along with dinner and drinks at his apartment. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on sheet 389 x 336 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1989

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Editorial cartoons, ca 1993

Reference: A-291-001

Description: Shows a caricature of Labour MP David Caygill, pulling his mouth into a smile with the fingers of both hands. Other Titles - New Zealand herald, 11 February 1989 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 225 x 292 mm.

Date: 1979 - 1980

From: Wrathall, Bill, 1931-1995 :[Editorial cartoons 1973-1991]

Reference: A-289-056

Description: Shows the old year 1979 as an old bearded man retiring from the stage where he and the stage have been pelted with rotten missiles. He advises a little girl dressed as 1980 not to sing "Look for the silver lining". The kiwi at lower right suggests: "How about 'Somewhere over the rainbow'?" Extended Title - New Zealand truth Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 393 x 304 mm.

Date: 2006

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0000685

Description: A government minister sits reading a newspaper article in which a 'dip' in econimic activity is predicted. The minister imagines New Zealand as a little car that bumps over a hole in the road. Beside him sits 'Albert Doomsayer' who also reads the article but he imagines the little car falling into a gaping crevasse. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0002981

Description: President George Bush is seen sitting in a cinema seat clutching a drink in a paper cup. He calls out to someone that he has good feelings about the film he is about to see, 'Iran, the sequel'. Refers to the inceasing possibility that Bush will order an invasion of Iraq, as a sequel to the invasion of Iraq. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0010562

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Records for the cartoons in this collection have not been enhanced by a full 'scope and contents' as they are essentially self-explanatory and can be searched by key word. They do have subject headings. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0006053

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The politician had great hopes of accomplishing something when he first entered politics but twenty years later and he is still not a billionaire. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0010090

Description: In the first of two frames a researcher takes a poll on whether New Zealanders expect to find themselves in a better or worse financial position in the next 12 months. A man over whom looms a huge black cloud of doom and gloom economic reports mutters that they cannot get any worse. In the second frame the reporter cheerfully reports that New Zealanders stay optimistic about their bank balances. Refers to the recession that has hit New Zealand in the wake of the global economic crisis. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0005767

Description: Shows a hour glass for the 2000s in which there is rocks instead of sand inside it. A man is inside the hour glass and is being squashed by the rocks. He says that it is best to have the 'glass half full' outlook. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2003

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0001415

Description: 'The politician' cartoon strip. It is a Monday morning and as he climbs the the steps to parliament the Minister feels expansive and curiously joyous. His adviser rapidly deflates the optimism by handing him a paper listing the awkward questions for the week. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2003

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0008081

Description: "Jitterati" cartoon strip. Shows Tony singing in the rain wearing a raincoat and holding an umbrella. His song is about being freezing and drenched and tax but having one small consolation, which he can't remember and has to ask Jaimee. Extended Title - "And the IRD deducts a large percentage of my pay... there's one small consolation that gives me through the DAY, cos' I've got - uh, Jaimee? What have I got?" "You mean you started the song and you didn't KNOW?" Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017242

Description: Text across the top of the cartoon reads 'You know you live in Christchurch when...' Six cameos follow reading 'You can stir a cup of coffee without a spoon' - a cup of coffee is shaken; 'after 30 years you finally know your neighbours' - a group of people get to know one another; 'the latest fitness craze is sandba' - a couple shovel a heap of liquefaction to music from their transistor; 'everyone gets to drive a slalom' - someone weaves along a road avoiding cracks and mud in their car; 'there's a craze in "unique garden features"' - a longdrop has been dug in the garden; and lastly 'you have tea under a doorframe' - a couple eats and drinks under a doorframe for safety. Context - the Christchurch earthquake of 22 February 2011. Published in The Press Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0002570

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The politician is standing at a podium making a speech. He says that people are saying that things can't possible get any worse. A colleague beside him adds that the government loves a challenge. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024697

Description: Shows a man looking at a news placard which states that New Zealand is the fourth most optimistic country in the world. The man thinks to himself, 'We'll rank number one in the next study'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0027238

Description: Cartoon shows United Future party leader, Peter Dunne, acclaiming 'Re-born again'. A shackle around his ankle reads 'United 2013 no Future' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).