Cartoon Show

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29878, 19 July 1962, Page 7

Cartoon Show

On show at Hay’s for the remainder of the week is a collection of original cartoons by Minhinnick. which was shown at the Auckland City Art Gallery during the recent Auckland Festival. It has been said that the tradition of illustrative and didactic art retains its greatest vitality in the field of the cartoon, and it is a view worth considering. Certainly. Minhinnick must have done more than any other single man to shape the NewZealand public’s images of its political leaders. There must be many who, because of years of seeing Minhinnick’s cartoons, visualise Mr Nash as still having a moustache The exhibition covers 30 years. Minhinnick’s general style has changed little in this time, but there has been a gradual increase in the assurance and individuality of his drawings until now- the wit of his line matches the wit of his ideas. Like most cartoonists, he fails when he is called to comment on tragedy or official events, when he falls back on the manipulation of threadbare symbolism. But he makes us see the comedy of everyday affairs, and he has probably w’on more support for the “New Zealand Herald’s” views over the years than all its leader writers.