Cecil John White known under the penname Unk White, was an Australia

Australia

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n cartoonist born in Auckland, New Zealand.

He came to Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 in 1922 with the artists Joe and Guy Lynch and was soon immersed in the bohemian scene there.

He was a regular contributor to Australian magazines, notably Melbourne Punch

Melbourne Punch

Melbourne Punch was an Australian illustrated magazine founded by Edgar Ray and Frederick Sinnett, modelled closely on Punch of London which was founded just fifteen years earlier....

 and The Bulletin

The Bulletin

The Bulletin was an Australian weekly magazine that was published in Sydney from 1880 until January 2008. It was influential in Australian culture and politics from about 1890 until World War I, the period when it was identified with the "Bulletin school" of Australian literature. Its influence...

, also Smith's Weekly

Smith's Weekly

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 and Beckett's Budget.

He drew a comic strip The Adventures of Blue Hardy for Pix magazine.

He was a foundation member of the Black and White Artists' Club and its first secretary.

In 1944 Unk was accredited as an official war artist and saw active service with the RAAF and Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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in New Guinea, the Pacific and Japan.

He was also a highly regarded painter in watercolours.

Publications

• Unk White's Laugh Parade Frank Johnson, Sydney 1940
• Unk White's Second Laugh Parade Frank Johnson, Sydney 1940
• Unk White's Giggles Pinnacle Press, Sydney 1943

illustrations for Rigby Sketchbook series (pub. Adelaide) inc.:

• The Rocks, Sydney by Olaf Ruhen, 1966
• Sydney Harbour Sketchbook by R Sriber, 1968
• Auckland Sketchbook by M H Holcroft, 1969
• Norfolk Island Sketchbook by R Sriber, 1969
• New England Sketchbook by Peter Newell, 1970
• Ballarat and Western Goldfields Sketchbook by John Bechervaise, 1970
• Bendigo and Eastern Goldfields Sketchbook by John Bechervaise, 1970
• Hawkesbury River Sketchbookby Frank Cayley 1970
• Blue Mountains Sketchbook by John Bechervaise, 1971
• Nineteenth Century Sydney Sketchbook by Tess van Sommers, 1974
• Paddington Sketchbook by Patricia Thompson 1975
• Queensland Sketchbook by Peter Newell, 1976
• Historic Sydney Sketchbook by Olaf Ruhen, Patricia Thompson, 1977 ISBN 0727002767