For Higher Smileage - National Benzole (1957)

1950sInnovation and Technology

3 Jan

Written By Zara Picken

Year: 1957

Format: Print Advert

Illustrator: John Hanna (1919-1992)

Client: National Benzole

Details: The artwork for this 1957 National Benzole magazine advert is signed ‘Hanna’. This is the signature of John Hanna (1919-1992).

Hanna was born in Melbourne, Australia and started working as a satirical cartoonist at the age of 20. He emigrated to England in 1947, where he worked in the art department of advertising agency SH Benson.

Hanna became a freelance illustrator in 1950. He returned to Australia in the 1960s to work as an art director, before once again turning freelance.

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