Bluey and Curley

Bluey and Curley
First appearance1939
Created byAlex Gurney

Bluey and Curley is an Australian newspaper comic strip written by the Australian artist, caricaturist, and cartoonist Alex Gurney.[1]

Few original Bluey and Curley strips are held in public collections, because Gurney often gave the original art work of his caricatures, cartoons, and comic strips to anyone who asked.[2] Following Gurney's death in 1955, the strip was taken over by Norm Rice in early 1956, but he died in a vehicle accident that year. Bluey and Curley was then taken over by cartoonist Les Dixon who drew it for 18 years until he retired in 1975.

  1. ^ Compare the simpler graphic style of the earliest, war-time strips ([1]), with the much later far more developed style of the 1955 version ([2] plus [3]).
  2. ^ For example, The Talk of the Town:The Tax Paradox, The (Adelaide Mail, ((Saturday, 7 October 1933), p.7; [4].