page_title: Will Dyson
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Will Dyson / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Cartoon of 1919 predication on what the Treaty of Versailles will do in 20 years by Will Dyson
context_page_description: William Henry Dyson was an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist. In 1931 he was regarded as 'one of the world's foremost black and white artists', and in 1980, 'Australia's greatest cartoonist'.
context_section_description: Before moving from Australia to London, Dyson was a caricaturist for The Bulletin and occasionally for Melbourne's Herald newspaper, he drew with a 'cruel and biting' style.
  During World War I, Dyson became known for his war cartoons, with a satiric tone.  He was commissioned as a lieutenant and sent to the Western Front, the 'mission was to make characteristic drawings of life in the trenches', making him Australia's first war artist.  The frontline experience impacted him, changing his cartooning direction from the militarists to the 'sufferers'.  Dyson later engaged in a debate with General Sir John Monash about his drawing of Diggers:
  (Monash) I think artists like Will Dyson, Norman Lindsay, and others have failed to reproduce the typical 'Digger' face. They make him a gaunt, haggard man with harshness written on every facial line. They're wrong! 
  (Dyson) Some bitter things have been said about the digger, but so far nothing so bitter as Sir John Monash's statement that, in the matter of looks, the digger is "mostly a sweet-faced, round-faced mamma's boy." 
  English writer H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was part of his professional circle.  He returned to Australia from 1925 to 1930, to the about-to-be-sold Melbourne Punch.  He later was the chief cartoonist for the Daily Herald in London.
caption: "Peace and Future Cannon Fodder"
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