Vale Peter Mitchell, cartoonist and more
Former cartoonist, songwriter, folk singer, bookseller and latter-day recluse, Peter Mitchell, died last December. I knew him, but not well. I remember him mostly for his quirky cartoon contributions to The Newcastle Herald. But as with most people, there was more to him than met the eye. It was somewhere about the mid-1980s when Peter Mitchell's cartoons suddenly began appearing in The Newcastle Herald. In those days, the Herald's Saturday Magazine was still quite substantial, full of fine reading material and a bevy of regular features that made it a staple for many Newcastle people. To…
