Hallett, Charles

Charlie Hallett was a small thin ex-Digger working as a shipping clerk on £4 per week in 1919 when he sent an unsolicited cartoon to Smith’s Weekly.

It lampooned the ship-owners in the fight they were having with workers on the waterfront and was published by editor-in-chief Claude McKay in October. The day it was published Charlie Hallett arrived at Smith’s office, having been sacked because of it. Taken on to do a cartoon a £5 a week. Hallett also drew cartoons for the Sydney Guardian . His signature “Hallett” is often quite illegible, ending in a “Z” form with a very thick base line.

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