Ian C. Thomas aka Ian T., is a long-term Australian comics artist and cartoonist. He created Australia's first minicomic

Minicomic

A minicomic is a creator-published comic book, often photocopied and stapled or with a handmade binding. In the United Kingdom and Europe the term "small press comic" is equivalent with minicomic reserved for those publications measuring A6 or less...

 (in 1978), produced Maelstrom (1982) and contributed to the early Australian anthology

Comics anthology

Comics anthologies collect works in the medium of comics that are too short for standalone publication.- U.S. :- UK :British comics have a long tradition publishing comics anthologies, often weekly...

 Reverie, as well as a comic strip in Melbourne newspaper City Extra.

Ian T's recent work has appeared widely in Australian comics, including OzTAKU

OzTAKU

OzTAKU is an Australian community for manga style artists & cartoonists. Whilst spread out along the Australian East coast, it's centrally administered from Melbourne, Australia.-Community:...

(Moth & Tanuki black-and-white series), The Ink music comic, Xuan Xuan, Pirates and Tango

Tango (comics)

Tango is a comics anthology published in |Melbourne, Australia by Cardigan Comics. As of December 2009, there have been nine issues of Tango, published intermittently since 1997, and an additional compilation The Tango Collection, published in 2009 by Allen & Unwin.-Overview:Tango is described as...

, as well as the book Operation Funnybone (2005). Among other comics, he recently drew Dillon Naylor

Dillon Naylor

Dillon Naylor is an Australian cartoonist, illustrator and toy designer. He is the creator of the comic strip Batrisha the Vampire Girl, which appeared for six years in the children's magazine K-Zone and was the basis for two children's books...

's Rock 'N' Roll Fairies for Total Girl magazine (Sept. 2005-Aug. 2006) and a Moth & Tanuki color series for Mania magazine (Jan.-Summer 2007).

External links

• Ian T.