Michael Connerty traces Jack B Yeats’ output of comics and comic-strip art
Jack B Yeats was producing sequences of images in comic strips from a young age. A sale of Yeats family material by Sotheby’s in 2017 included examples of comic-strip work executed by Yeats when he was only twelve years old. He may have been introduced to comics by his older brother William Butler, who reportedly showed him work by WG Baxter, one of the artists behind Victorian cartoon ‘superstar’ Ally Sloper.
Stephanie McBride explores Deirdre Brennan’s photographic response to James Joyce’s Ulysses
