Livingstone
Hopkins
was
born in 1846. He worked for the Daily
Graphic,
New York's first illustrated newspaper. He worked for Joseph
Keppler and Puck Magazine before
joining James Wales when he decided to
start The Judge in 1881.
Hopkins moved to Australia where he worked for the Sydney
Bulletin
and established himself as the country's leading cartoonist. Hopkins
died in 1927.
The Secret of England's Greatness: 5d per hour
Livingstone Hopkins, The Australian Bulletin (August, 1889)
(1) David
Low went to work with Livingstone Hopkins on the Sydney Bulletin
in 1909.
The men behind the Bulletin, notably Jules Francois Archibald,
a master journalist, and William Macleod, an artist with solid business
ability, had made it a major policy of their paper to encourage native
Australian talent. The supply of poets and writers began to flow almost
immediately. That of comic artists and caricaturists had to be primed
at first by a couple of importations, Livingstone Hopkins (Hop) from
America, and Phil May from Britain.
The Bulletin was radical, rampant and free, with an anti-English
bias and a preference for a republican form of government. No more
imported governors nor doggerel national anthems, no more pompous
borrowed generals, foreign titles, foreign capitalists, cheap labour,
diseased immigrants, if the Bulletin could help it.
