Monty Wedd
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Monty Wedd (born 1921) is an Australian comic artist, animator and author.
Wedd attended the East Sydney Technical College and has worked as a lithographic artist, and drawn for advertising and strip cartoons. His work has appeared in a range of Australian newspapers, including Sydney Daily Mirror, Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Territorian and Sunday Mail.
Strips include: Bert and Ned, Tod Trail, Kirk Raven, Ned Kelly, The Scorpion, Sword and Sabre, Captain Justice, Ben Hall and The making of a nation.
Cartoon characters include: Dollar Bill and Speedwell Steve.
[edit] References
- Interview with Monty Wedd, artist and author (sound recording) -interviewed by Ros Bowden, 3 November 1995 LOL
- 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)
- The making of a nation: commemorating Australia's Bicentenary / written and illustrated by Monty Wedd (1988+, ISBN 0-7316-4706-8)
- Stamp stories / Monty Wedd (1970)
- Stamp oddities (1969)
- Australian military uniforms, 1800-1982 / Monty Wedd (1982, ISBN 0-949924-12-1)
[edit] External links
- Lambiek.net - Monty Wedd
- Monty Wedd
- Australian cartoonist creator of Captain Justice and The Scorpion / Greg Ray
- Scorpion / Australian Superheroes
