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Australian Women
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Cullen, Jean ( - 1950) |
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| Cartoonist, Illustrator and Journalist | |||
| Died: 1950 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | |||
Jean Cullen was an illustrator and humourous artist who worked for Smith's Weekly in the period 1941-1950. She also created the teenage cartoon character 'Pam' for the Brisbane Courier Mail , a character that Marie Horseman continued to develop after Cullen took her own life in 1950. In 1945, Cullen published an adult illustrated book that was quickly banned called Hold that Halo,or, How to lose it in ten easy lessons. The comic narrated the trials and tribulations of a young woman during the second word war and was a stark commentary on the sexual double-standard as it applied to women. |
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Hold that Halo, or, How to lose it in ten easy lessons (On the frontispiece) Adam and Eve have caused these rhymes An' this is how it all began This halo's lass took Ma's advice This halo'd charmente oh! was poor This halo'd heiress found wealth a bore Another with halo, alas! without vim, (A picture of a school marm reading books called 'Say yes and like it' and 'How to have it' accompanies this verse) This girl had a halo but not for long, I've told you solme secrets of gals good and bad, So the moral is written for all girls to see: Events
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| Sources used to compile this entry: Australian Journalists' Club, Black and White Exhibition: Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning, Presented on the occasion of the Journalists' Club quarter century presentation, Catalogue of work of cartoonists on display in the exhibition, August 1964; Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au; Kerr, Joan, Artists and Cartoonists in black and white: the most public art., S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust of Australia, Sydney, 1999. | ||
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Published by National Foundation for Australian Women on Australian Women's Archives Project Web Site Comments, questions, corrections and additions: awap@womenaustralia.info Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 23 December 2008 http://womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE3781b.htm |