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'Min' – Gordon Minhinnick

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Gordon Minhinnick, known as 'Min', was the pre-eminent New Zealand cartoonist from the mid-1930s through to the 1960s. Despite 'retiring' in 1976, he continued having cartoons published until 1987. In the accompanying sound clip Minhinnick discusses the 'corrosive'  nature of cartooning as a form of political commentary.

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New Zealand Herald

Reference: Minhinnick, Min’s sauce: cartoons from the N.Z. Herald 1970-1976. Auckland: Wilson and Horton, 1976

by Gordon Edward George Minhinnick

Sound file from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives Nga Taonga Korero. Any re-use of this audio is a breach of copyright. To request a copy of the recording, contact Sound Archives Nga Taonga Korero (Gordon Minhinnick/Reference number ID 23385)

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Ian F. Grant, Cartooning – Cartoonists at home and abroad, 1900 to 1950, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/speech/41735/min-gordon-minhinnick (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ian F. Grant, published 20 May 2013.