A. Stuart Peterson Australia
- Born
- 1900 in Australia
- Died
- 1976 in Australia
- Age
- 75-76 years
- Credited for
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art
- Also known as
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Archibald Stuart Peterson
A.S.P. (common alternative)
Stewart Peterson (common alternative)
Stuart Peterson (common alternative)
Biography
Peterson studied at the National Gallery Schools in Melbourne.
He contributed to Smiths' Weekly and The Bulletin in the twenties and was editorial cartoonist on the New Zealand Free Lance from 1927 to 1934, before returning to Australia.
He freelanced during the mid thirties, including doing illustrations for many stories in The Australian Women's Weekly and The Australian Woman's Mirror. His cartoons also appeared in The Bulletin and were often syndicated nationally.
In 1938, he started at the Sydney Sun and Sunday Sun, initially filling in for Tom Glover and then taking over as The Sun's chief political cartoonist upon Glover's death in September 1938.
From early 1939 until its end in January 1940, Peterson took over Glover's half-page weekly strip in Sunbeams, 'Skeeter and His Magic Ring', a children's fantasy in the UK comic tradition of text beneath images. He then created the new full-page strip 'Jeff Justice, the Junior Ace' for The Sun (14 January 1940 - 19 May 1940).
From 1940, he also drew various similar sport-focused strips with regularly changing titles, such as 'Stuart Peterson at Randwick' (1940), 'Stuart Peterson Storms Court' (1941), 'Peterson's Penpoints' (1946-1947), 'Show Pieces' (1947), 'Sporting Library' (1947-1948) and 'Silly Point' (1950-1951).
Peterson is known for his caricatures, particularly of sporting personalities, during the thirties and forties, many reprinted in newspapers across Australia.
Peterson illustrated a number of further stories for The Australian Women's Weekly from 1962 to 1965.
Notes
In 1949, The Sun reported that British religious monthly 'The Bible Speaks to Britain' was seeking to arrange for 'cartoonist Stuart Peterson to create a number of strips, based on Bible stories, for the new magazine' (see trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230935391).
The first episode of Skeeter credited to Stuart Peterson is 9 April 1939, along with a new strip title block. It is likely some advance strips were on file at the time of Glover's death or someone ghosted for Glover during the period after his death.
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