Michael Atchison, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian cartoonist
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Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Michael Atchison
- Michael Plant Atchison (4 August 1933 – 16 February 2009) was an Australian cartoonist who worked for the South Australian Advertiser for over 40 years. He was born in Sandringham, Victoria and moved to South Australia with his family in 1939.
- He was educated at Glenelg Primary, then King's College, a boys' school which later became the co-ed Pembroke.
- He attended Adelaide Teachers' College and embarked on a teaching career.
- He married fellow Teachers' College student Olga and together left for England in 1960, where he worked as a freelance artist, contributing to magazines including Punch as well as working as art director for a London advertising agency.
- They moved to Sydney in 1967. He began work at The Advertiser in 1967 as the eventual replacement (Robert Hannaford intervened) for Pat Oliphant who had left for a career with the Denver Post in 1964.
- And like Oliphant, he was to illustrate the frequent prose and poetic contributions of his great friend Max Fatchen.
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