Space ships

Date: 1981

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-135-822

Description: Shows the American space shuttle, Columbia, whizzing through space past the Russian space ship. The Americans have just missed colliding with the Russians and the American cosmonaut's complaints sound like someone complaining about a bad car driver. The Columbia was on it's second mission into space after it's launch was delayed by bad weather. It's first mission was 12-14 April 1981. Extended Title - Two Russian cosmonauts have been in space since March 12 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and white gouache, 482 x 325 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1981

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-336-037

Description: Caricature of two aliens in a space ship. Refers to reports that a space ship crashed in the desert of New Mexico near the town of Roswell in July 1947. This cartoon illustrated a letter to the editor responding to an article the Auckland Star had published 4 February 1981 about the Roswell incident. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card 190 x 250 mm Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1994

Reference: A-302-148

Description: Shows a man talking to an alien about where they have landed. The man gives a variety of different responses and in the final scene the aliens fly off in their space craft not knowing where they were. Refers to the great New Zealand name-change debate. Other 1994 Qantas media awards cartoons at H-232 Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: [ca 1975-1983]

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

By: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003; Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: A-454-410

Description: New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon and Leader of the Opposition Bill Rowling heads are floating against a black background. Their heads resemble spaceships. Caption reads “An Apollo and a Soyuz that appear unlikely to achieve docking…”. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing, 245 x 210 mm

Date: 1984

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-136-275

Description: Shows a NASA space shuttle in space. Outside the shuttle an astronaut is towing some space debris on ropes but the pilot is telling him it doesn't belong to the United States. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink and crayon on paper, 262 x 388mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1970

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

Reference: B-137-106

Description: Shows two astronauts looking out of a spaceship, the Gemini-8, as they disengage from their empty fuel tank, and seeing a passing satellite "billboard" advertising Joe Danks' panel-beating service. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone 300 x 430 mm, on sheet 368 x 530 mm.

Date: 1975

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :60 cartoon photocopies published 1975 - 1976 in Sunday News.

Reference: H-358-014

Description: Shows a terrified man running towards Rowling and screaming about an alien invasion. In his haste he has dropped his walking stick. In the distance is an invasion of space crafts which are attacking a city. Rowling very calmy says "Thank God". Refers to Rowling looking for a way out of Parliament. Extended Title - "Thank God" Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1966

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

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-395

Description: Apollo 9 is hurtling through space and passes a space vehicle containing a woman modelling an outfit with the note 'by La Parisienne fashion house'. The comment by an astronaut is that model was mistaken for module. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil, 318 x 454 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1966

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

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-386

Description: A single scene shows an astronaut peering out of a window of the Gemini 11 spaceship, asking ground control again for a description of the Agena target vehicle. Their craft is surrounded by space junk and various satellites, etc. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil, 286 x 395 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 2013

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0026446

Description: Cartoon shows two aliens flying in a spaceship looking at a brightly lit orange lamp. Caption reads 'Help! What's that strange light over Blenheim?' 'Don't panic...it's only a Chinese lantern' Context: refers to sightings of lights over Blenheim which had in some instances proven to be Chinese lanterns, but were earlier believed to be extraterrestrial beings Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0018245

Description: Text reads 'Last shuttle lift-off delayed'. A man rushes with a can of 'gas' towards an enormous space shuttle. Context: Detecting an electrical failure, NASA announced a scrub of the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour less than four hours before liftoff Friday morning (29 April 2011), saying the mission would be delayed at least three days. (www.azcental.com - 30 April 2011) Endeavour completed its final mission with a landing at the Kennedy Space Center at 6:34 UTC on June 1, 2011.Over its flight career, Endeavour flew 122,853,151 miles and spent 299 days in space. (Wikipedia) Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1964

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; New Zealand. Department of Health; R E Owen (Firm)

Reference: Eph-C-DENTAL-1964-01

Description: Poster shows a boy in the spacesuit walking across a lunar landscape with a various anthropomorphised foodstuffs: egg, orange, apple, banana, cqrrot, milk bottle, tomato,cheese, bread, cutlet and silverbeet. With the group walks a toothbrush. Behind the group is a spacecraft labelled Moonbase Airlines Corp[oration], and a roadsign indicates that the group is walking towards Moonbase, and a fluoridated water supply. In the sky hangs Earth with the North and South American continents facing. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 500 x 370 mm. Provenance: Previously pinned up at Taupo Primary School.

Date: 1991

From: The Crawlspace Records Collection; popular music posters. 1980-2002.

By: Flying Nun Records

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-CR-1991-02

Description: Poster shows two white spaceships, one large and one small, against a dark background covered with a pattern of smaller spaceships delineated in pink. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on laminated poster. Physical Description: Screenprint on poster, 553 x 386 mm (laminated) Provenance: Donated by Crawlspace Records in 2003.

Date: 2008

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0006159

Description: Shows a wharf with Kaikoura supermarket in the background. A couple of workers and a seal stand and stare from behind a pile of boxes and cartons with labels such as 'Frozen chook', 'pies' and 'squiggle tops' as a policeman talks to a grinning man about the huge freight truck that he has driven off the pier into the sea. The man says that after he read the news that a Russian space cargo ship had been dumped in the South Pacific after completing its mission, he decided 'what the heck' and followed suit with his freight truck. Refers to a news item that stated that 'Russia's Progress M-63 space cargo ship was successfully 'buried' on Monday at a spaceship cemetery in the southern Pacific'. Published in Shipping Gazette. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0003961

Description: Two extraterrestrials in a spacecraft watch as Earth burns up. One comments to the other that this is what one might expect from carbon-based life forms. Refers to global warming. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0000906

Description: The scene is a park in the evening as dark approaches. A spaceship has landed and the man delivering census forms wonders if the two little aliens will still be here on Tuesday. Tuesday 7 March is census day for New Zealanders. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1985

From: Various artists :[Posters advertising performances by popular music groups, singers, musicians, and rock bands performing in New Zealand in 1985].

By: Phillipps, Martin, 1963-

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Popular-1985-06

Description: A poster promoting a New Zealand tour by the band The Chills, showing roundfaced smiling figures in two space ships. Design is black and white on a red background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - M.P. 17.6.85; Recto - beneath image - (In felt pen): Coming soon Halley's Comet Tour 85. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Screen print and felt pen, on poster 593 x 425 mm.

Date: 2009

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0011251

Description: Spaceships manned by little green men fill the sky. Those closer to the ground appear to be sucking up human babies. One of the spacemen says that if anyone complains they should be told that overpopulation and destruction ofthe environment were similar excuses used for the culling of the Kaimanawa horses. Probably refers to the problem of overpopulation. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0011936

Description: Shows an outdoor toilet of the old-fashioned New Zealand sort, which stands on the surface of the moon with an American flag and a spade stuck into the soil nearby. In the distance is Earth from which a voice comes telling the space shuttle that orbits between Earth and the moon to divert to the moon because the 'boys of '69 left equipment to cover such emergencies'. Text above reads 'Astronauts deal with flooded toilet in orbit'. Refers to just such an emergency though what really happened was that Mission Control advised the astronauts to hang an "out of service" sign on the toilet until it could be fixed. In the meantime, the six space station residents had to get in line to use their one good toilet. And Endeavour's seven astronauts were restricted to the shuttle bathroom. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012479

Description: The cartoon shows a flying saucer arriving on earth and assuming that the mountains of plastic garbage are the earthlings. The words 'Destruct 9' appear across the rubbish. Reference to the problem of the amount of rubbish generated by the population and how it should be managed and dealt with. The words 'Destruct 9' refers to the film 'District 9' directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson - about an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth ... Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).