Anyone doubting the comic strip's potential as an educational and instructional medium would surely cast aside such doubts upon rediscovering the
'Frontiers of Science', an Australian comic strip that was syndicated to over 600 newspapers worldwide between 1961-1982.
The brainchild of Professor Stuart Butler (School of Physics, University of Sydney) and journalist and filmmaker, Bob Raymond, Frontiers of Science was conceived as a means of explaining scientific phenomena and documenting aspects of scientific history, in a compelling, visual manner. Butler served as the scientific consultant on the series, while Raymond wrote the scripts for each daily installment.
Frontiers of Science was well-served by two accomplished illustrators;
Andrea Bresciani, an expatriate Slovenian-Italian artist who spent much of his working life after World War II in Australia, and David Emerson, a prolific Australian cartoonist and painter, who took over as illustrator on the series in 1970.
The University of Sydney Library has recently launched the
Frontiers of Science website, which features an online archive containing the first 200 episodes of the comic strip, along with biographical information about the series' creative personnel. This website is a handsomely formulated tribute to one of the unsung success stories of Australian comic strip art, which remains as informative and enlightening today as it did when it first appeared nearly 50 years ago.
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