Left to Right: My sister Sheryl, Brother Doug, Sister Flo - Late 1960s at a guess.
- A Happy Birthday today to my (only) brother Doug. I have included my favourite photograph of childhood (above), most likely taken by our father. One of the endearing memories of those long-ago days of things we did together: Doug and I kneeling on the floor in our bedroom, facing the bed. On the bed we were flicking through 'reading' one of my father's magazines. It was either a copy of Gags and Gals or perhaps Laughs and Lovelies or even Face and Figure, all then published by Sydney publisher KG Murray. We were trying to make some sense of the humorous cartoons in the magazines and laughing uproariously pretending we understood. The girls? As you know, blokes only read these magazines for the articles; well, Doug and I only 'read' them for the cartoons. Really.
I am not sure if KG Murray (publisher of MAN Magazine) gave Copyright ownership to their artists, or if they were all work for hire artists. Phil Belbin drew this September 1964 cover under the nom-de-plume of 'Humph'.
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