Author(s): Ian Dougherty

New Zealand | Biography

Shooting Folly as it Flies is the first biography of New Zealand’s first political cartoonist, the Dunedin engraver and artist, James Brown, and reproduces and places in their historical context all of his surviving cartoons, many of which have not previously been published. They constitute a rare visual record of and a remarkable and enduring commentary on the factional and fickle world of settler politics in nineteenth century New Zealand.