Quentin Hankey Traitor

In the early 1980s Ball developed a new character, stringy-haired, middle-aged Quentin Hankey, specifically to probe the New Zealand social scene. For a few months in 1981 he published a Hankey-centred political cartoon in the New Zealand Mail, which savagely attacked the government’s response to the 1981 Springbok tour, and he revived the character for the illustrated novella Quentin Hankey: traitor(1986). In this satirical Cold War fantasy, a Labour government declares New Zealand an independent republic, only to have it overthrown by force by the National Party backed by the American military. The story culminates in a Russian nuclear attack on New Zealand. Like ‘Stanley’, Quentin Hankey parodied social attitudes and stereotypes, taking aim at greedy conservatives, American foreign policy, and impractical left-wing protest movements, among other things.

Please note this copy has light creases on the cover.

ISBN: 9780474002267

Size: Trade Paperback, 72 pages

Publisher: Reed

Published:  1896