Jolliffe's cartoons enjoyed great success with the Australian reading public. Saltbush Bill ran "in Pix magazine for almost 50 years from 1945" and his other series experienced similar success. Personal life From 1932 Jolliffe was married to the Scottish-born May H. Clark. She died in Chatswood in 1993. Their daughter Margaret ("Meg") had died in 1989. He died on 16 November 2001 at the age of 94. His funeral service was held at Ourimbah on the Central Coast of New South Wales. Honours and awards 2009: Member of Hall of Fame of the Australian Cartoonists' Association 1998: Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for "service to art as a cartoonist and illustrator" 1985, 1986: Stanley Award: "Single Gag Cartoonist of the Year" 1960, 1961: Sydney Savage Club Cartoonist Award See also Bush carpentry Minties Slab hut References Further reading Books and magazines by Jolliffe Corroboree : Aboriginal Cartoon Fun, Cremorne [N.S.W.] : E. Jolliffe [1946] - online copy at State Library Victoria Books about Jolliffe and his work ACE Biographical Portraits: The Artists Behind the Comic Book Characters: The Australian Comic Book Exhibition, Australian Comics 1930s-1990s, Touring Australia During 1995/96 / edited by Annette Shiell and Ingrid Unger (1994, ) Joan Kerr, Artists and Cartoonists: In Black and White, Sydney: S. H. Ervin Gallery, 1999 Annette Shiell and Mick Stone, eds., Bonzer: Australian Comics, 1900s-1990s, Redhill South, Melbourne: Elgua Media, 1998 Richard Rae, Cartoonists of Australia, View Productions, 1983. Toby Burrows and Grant Stone, eds., Comics in Australia and New Zealand: The Collections, the Collectors, the Creators, New York, London, Norwood (Australia): The Haworth Press, Inc., 1994, p. 28 Vane Lindsay, Drawing From Life: A History of the Australian Black and White Artists' Club, Sydney: State Library of NSW Press, 1994 Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning, The Journalists’ Club, 1964 Graeme Cliffe, From Sunbeams To Sunset. The Rise And Fall Of The Australian Comic Book (1924-1965), Margate Beach: Ozcomics, 2019 Frederick Luis Aldama, Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia, University Press of Mississippi, 2020, pp. 56–57 Vane Lindsay, The Inked-in Image, Melbourne: Hutchinson of Australia, 1979 John Ryan, Panel by Panel: A History of Australian Comics, Melbourne: Cassell Australia 1979 External links Conversation with Eric Jolliffe (sound recording) - interviewed by Hazel de Berg on 18 November 1974 Interview with Eric Jolliffe, bush cartoonist and comic strip artist (sound recording) - interviewed by Ros Bowden., 5 December