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- Title
'Truth and Time Against the World's Wrongs': Montagu Scott, Jim Case and the Lost World of the Brisbane Worker Cartoonists.
- Authors
Dyrenfurth, Nick
- Abstract
In a 1920 book celebrating the famed labour movement cartoonist Claude Marquet, his long-time editor, Henry Boote, told of how, 'every week tens of thousands of men and women derived from [his] vivid imagery keen satire instruction on all the vital questions'. This was a compliment Boote might have paid to a number Marquet's cartooning comrades: the Brisbane Worker duo of Montagu Scott and Jim Case, or the well-known London-based Australian Will Dyson. Comparatively speaking, the Queenslanders have been neglected by labour historians. Yet, beginning with Scott, the Worker cartoonists set the stylistic and thematic template for the likes of Marquet and Dyson. Unashamedly populist, with a fiercely racialist take on working-class politics, their propaganda constituted an important part of the precocious success enjoyed by the Queensland and federal Labor parties before the catastrophic events of World War I.
- Subjects
BRISBANE (Qld.); QUEENSLAND; SCOTT, Montagu; CASE, Jim; CARTOONISTS; POLITICAL cartoons -- History; LABOR press; LABOR movement
- Publication
Labour History, 2010, Issue 99, p115
- ISSN
0023-6942
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5263/labourhistory.99.1.0115