Cartoons

gorgeous

Kaz Cooke’s Gorgeous, winner of 1994 AFI award for short animated film. Starring Hermoine the Modern Girl and Deirdre the Bad Fairy’s voice of feral low self esteem. With the voices of Judith Lucy, Kris McQuade, Lynda Gibson, Lorin Clarke and featuring Mick Molloy convincingly saying “Phwoaaarrr”. 10 minutes. Produced by Sharon Connolly, Film Australia National Interest Program.

lola montez: take her advice

In 1858 a book called ‘The Arts of Beauty & Hints to Gentlemen on the Arts of Beauty’ was published by Lola Montez, the bombastic, whip-wielding, touring champion Spider-Dance exhibitioniste and bit-on-the-side for King Ludwig of Bavaria.

I added some cartoons, and Text Publishing brought the book out again in 1997 as a dear little hardback. Sadly, it’s now out of print. I’ve rummaged in the vault to find some of my favourite cartoons from the book, presented with “captions” provided directly from the advice of Miss Montez.

More info on “The Arts of Beauty”