John Dixon, Air Hawk and the flying doctor

Resource Information

The work John Dixon, Air Hawk and the flying doctor represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

John Dixon, Air Hawk and the flying doctor

Statement of responsibility

written and drawn by John Dixon ; edited by Nat Karmichael

Title variation

• John Dixon's Air Hawk and the flying doctor
• Air Hawk and the flying doctor

Creator

• Dixon, John, 1929-

Contributor

• Karmichael, Nat

Author

• Dixon, John, 1929-

Editor

• Karmichael, Nat

Illustrator

• Dixon, John, 1929-

Subject

• Biographies
• Comic books, strips, etc. -- Australia
• Comics (Graphic works)
• Dixon, John, 1929-
• Illustrators -- Australia -- Biography
• Literature and stories - Comic strips and books
• Magic and sorcery - Clever people
• Race relations - Representation - Literature
• Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Rural health services -- Australia -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Aeronautics in medicine -- Australia -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography

Genre

• Comic books, strips, etc
• Biographies
• Comics (Graphic works)
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

This title includes 5 complete Air Hawk adventures from the 1970s. It is also a biography of John Dixon based on recollections of his family and friends from over the years. It contains an interview including his memories of the times he worked on the strip, as well as his unique approach to work and an award winning article sharing a short history of the Australian comic book scene in the early 1960s to give context to the medium when John Dixon's Air Hawk was in its infancy. Includes fictional pictorial representations of Aboriginal people

Member of

• AIATSIS Comic Collection

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

741.5994

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Target audience

adolescent