Fil Barlow b. 1963

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Contemporary Brisbane children's book illustrator, comic strip artist and puppeteer. Barlow was 12 when his first printed comic - 'Fudsey' - ran for four weeks in a Sunday paper. Before establishing his own publishing house, Zoonimedia, in 1992 Barlow worked as a puppeteer on the children's television show 'Alf' in California.

Citations

  • Barlow, Fil, 'Zooniverse Comic’.

  • Shiell, Annette (ed.) (1998), 'Bonzer: Australian Comics 1900s-1990s’, Melbourne, Vic. : Elgua Media/ Binara Publishing.

  • Rae, Richard (ed.) (1983), 'Cartoonists of Australia’, Marrickville, NSW : View Productions.

  • Shiell, Annette; & Unger, Ingrid (1994), 'Ace Biographical Portraits… 1930s-1990s’, Clayton, Vic. : National Centre for Australian Studies.

  • Information sourced from Barlow, Fil.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists