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Frontiers of Science

The University of Sydney
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Copyright for Frontiers of Science is retained by Miriam Butler and Angela Raymond. For reproduction queries please contact the Rare Books Library.

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Frontiers of Science was an illustrated comic strip of 'science fact' which was conceived and published in Sydney Australia, and syndicated worldwide through over 600 newspapers.  As of October 2012, the Frontiers of Science collection contains digitised images of 200 weekly comic strips. The strips were scanned as TIF files and are presented online using Thickbox and Zoomify Design.  

The original Frontiers of Science strips ran from 1961 to 1982. The series was co-written and produced by Professor Stuart Butler from the University of Sydney School of Physics and journalist and film-maker Bob Raymond. The early art work in the series was by Andrea Bresciani, continued later by David Emersen.

Publisher pulls and some of the original art work is located and archived in the Rare Books and Special Collections Library in Fisher Library at the University of Sydney. Digitisation and web site developed in association with Sydney eScholarship at the University Library. Indexing of the strips by Professor Peter Harrowell, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Sydney. Digitisation funded by the Science Foundation for Physics at the University of Sydney.
 
 

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