View AccountGall, Ian Stuart (1904 - 1981)
Ian Gall original cartoon artwork.
Ian Gall was born in Brisbane, Australia. School-time doodling led Ian Gall to take up art classes at the Brisbane Technical College as he abandoned the idea of dentistry as a career. The Brisbane Courier published occasional cartoons by Gall in the 1920s, covering political issues such as the Queensland government surplus (1923) and the strike by members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia (1928). Gall spent some time in Melbourne and Sydney drawing for the Bulletin (illustrating the joke page) and Smith’s Weekly. Returning to Brisbane, he illustrated the covers of pictorial supplements for two newspapers. He was employed at the Telegraph for six years before joining the Courier-Mail, where his initial three-a-week output quickly increased to daily cartoons. Renowned for his wartime depictions, in 1946-48 Gall was chief cartoonist for News of the World in the United Kingdom. At the urging of his wife and children he returned to Brisbane and the Courier-Mail in 1948. After Nils Josef Jonsson’s death in 1963 Gall took over his comic strip featuring Radish the horse, and for some time also produced an adventure strip, `Dare Dalton’. He retired as the paper’s cartoonist in 1969, but contributed a Saturday strip until 1972.