Stan Cartoons Archive

Some of the best

Here are a few of the STAN cartoons which have appeared to be very popular.

The first is about the famous SILLY OLD BUGGER (SOB) comment made by the Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, to a local pensioner during a visit to the Westland mall, and published on 4 October 1989. I thought we ought to make the spot a tourist attraction with various souvenirs of the event.

Then there was the famous WHITE cartoon. At the time the comment was made that Whyalla could survive without its largest employer, BHP. The cartoon was completely blank, suggesting that without BHP Whyalla wouldn’t exist. People kept ringing me up after this was published, a few puzzled and thinking the paper had forgotten to add the cartoon to the title block, others getting the joke.

Another cartoon people ask me for copies of, especially when friends or workmates are leaving town, is the one below, which seems to say it all.

Seeing as I designed the Whyalla City Council Logo, it seemed OK for me to use it in a cartoon when it was suggested that Hummock hill be lit up at night.

In June 2000, Whyalla Airlines flight 904 crashed into Spencer Gulf on a flight from Adelaide to Whyalla, killing all seven passengers on board plus the pilot. This was the first STAN cartoon in thirty years not to have a title heading and the only cartoon not signed.

In 2002 there was some discussion about the origins of the word WHYALLA. These were my suggestions.

If other places can have a theme song, why not Whyalla. This was my suggestion from June 2006.

In July 2007 the 2006 census results were coming in and the WHYALLA NEWS was running a series of articles on Typical Whyalla Residents. It seemed to me that a cartoon on a typical Whyalla dog was called for.

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This is the home page of Whyalla artist Stephen Stanley. If you’ve lived in Whyalla in the past or are a current resident, the editorial cartoons on this website will be of great interest to you, as they record almost all of the significant (or just amusing) events that have happened in Whyalla since the early 1970s.

This site is a humorous snapshot of the history of Whyalla, seen through the eyes of the local editorial cartoonist. Browse and enjoy!