Series 01: Original drawings of Kolo the Koala from the comic strip "Little Kolo and his Mummy" / drawn by Sheila Hawkins

PXD 884

series

c.1940s

Graphic Materials, Drawings

414367

Drawings - 12 ink drawings on 4 cardboard strips - 21 x 56 cm. or smaller - 3 drawings (frames) per strip
Drawings - 9 pencil drawings on 3 paper strips - 16 x 56 cm. or smaller - 3 drawings (frames) per strip

1. "Little Kolo and his Mummy" by Sheila Hawkins No.1 [no captions]
2. No.3. Lit C. always asks M-y to pull his cart at this corner - bcause - he - likes - running on the walls
3. 10. Hosing on lawn at home. At home after the holidays Kolo feels hot & cross and wishes he was still at the sea - but his Mummy has a good idea - and Kolo is soon happy again
4. Little Kolo and his Mummy - No.10 [drawn and captioned as for 3]
5. 12. Little Kolo & his Mummy. Kolo likes helping his Mummy make the beds - because - well - beds are such fun
6. Little Kolo and His Mummy - No.14. Little Kolo's Mummy helped him to write to Santa Claus - for something he specially wanted. Santa must have got the letter - because when Kolo woke up on Christmas Day - there IT was !! Clever Santa!
7. Little Kolo and his Mummy. No.44 by Sheila Hawkins. Kolo asks his Mummy to buy some pretty fish because he's sure they only want a good swim

Numerical ordering of artist as inscribed on the drawings

"Little Kolo and his Mummy" was published in Mother magazine in the late 1950s through till the early 1960s. Each strip was 3 frames depicting Kolo's domestic adventures. It ran for 3 years and 3 months until the format of the journal changed and it was dropped
Hawkins varies the spelling of the koala's name between Little Kolo and Little Colo, sometimes abbreviated in these drawings to Lit C.

Name & address of artist inscribed on reverse in ink (1,4,7)
Incomplete Mother magazine publication dates inscribed on front or reverse