Alexander George Gurney was an English artist, caricaturist, and cartoonist born at Pasley House, Stoke, Devonport, England, famous for his creation of two famous Australian comic strips: Ben Bowyang,
Alex Gurney in 1939
Alex Gurney (second from left) presenting the original art work of a Bluey and Curley comic strip to soldiers of the 2/12th Battalion in New Guinea, 5 March 1944.
The Bulletin was an Australian weekly magazine based in Sydney and first published in 1880. It featured politics, business, poetry, fiction and humour, alongside cartoons and other illustrations.
Front cover of the 22 February 1890 edition
J. F. Archibald and John Haynes, imprisoned in Darlinghurst Gaol in 1882 for not paying the costs in the Clontarf libel case