Stan Cross

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Stanley George Cross (1888-1977) was born in the United States but was known an Australian strip and political cartoonist who drew for Smith’s Weekly and The Herald and Weekly Times.

Cross is famous for his iconic “For gorsake, stop laughing: this is serious!” cartoon as well as the Wally and the Major and The Potts cartoon strips.

[edit] References

• Conversation with Stan Cross (sound recording) / as interviewed by Hazel de Berg, 18 August 1969

• ACE biographical portraits: the artists behind the comic book characters: the Australian comic book exhibition, Australian comics 1930s-1990s, touring Australia during 1995/96 / edited by Annette Shiell and Ingrid Unger (1994, ISBN 0-7326-0829-5)
• Australian humour in pen and ink / Stan Cross (1921)
• Golden years of cartooning 1920-1940: Stan Cross and 23 other artists whose work appeared in Smith's Weekly / Brenda Rainbow (1998, ISBN 0-9586271-0-X)
• Stop laughing, this is serious!: the life and work of Stan Cross, 1888-1977 / Vane Lindesay (2001, ISBN 0-522-84980-6)
• Wally and the Major / Stan Cross
• John Ryan collection of Australian comic books, ca. 1940-1960 (manuscript)

[edit] External links

• Lambiek.net - Stan Cross
• Carl Lyon - Wally and the Major cartoons for The Herald and Weekly Times - held and digitised by the National Library of Australia