Chester Gould was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains.
Hornsby is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia, approximately 23 kilometres (14 mi) north-west of the Sydney central business district. It is the administrative centre of the local government area of Hornsby Shire.
James Charles Bancks was an Australian cartoonist and commercial artist, water and illustrator best known for his comic strip Ginger Meggs.
Ron Vivian was an Australian cartoonist who is perhaps best known as having drawn Ginger Meggs after the original creator, Jimmy Bancks died in 1952.
Lloyd Piper was an Australian cartoonist and art teacher, best known as the third artist to take on the iconic Australian comic strip, Ginger Meggs, which he drew from 1973 until his death in 1983.
James Lawrence Kemsley OAM was an Australian cartoonist who was notable for producing the comic strip Ginger Meggs between 1984 and 2007.
The Australian Cartoonists' Association (ACA) is the Australian professional cartoonists' organisation and was established on 17 July 1924 as the Society of Australian Black and White Artists. It was the first association of newspaper artists in the world.
The following lists events that happened during 1921 in Australia.
The twenty-cent coin of the Australian decimal currency system was issued with conversion to decimal currency on 14 February 1966, replacing the florin which was worth two shillings, a tenth of a pound.
Australian comics have been published since 1908 and Australian comics creators have gone to produce influential work in the global comics industry,
The Sunday Mail is an Adelaide newspaper first published on 4 May 1912 by Clarence P. Moody. Through much of the 20th century, The Advertiser was Adelaide's morning broadsheet, The News the afternoon tabloid, The Sunday Mail a vehicle for covering weekend sport, and Messenger Newspapers covering community news.
Jason Chatfield is an Australian cartoonist and stand-up comedian, based in New York City. At 23 he became Australia's most widely syndicated cartoonist, appearing daily in over 120 newspapers in 34 countries. His art spans the disciplines of comic strip, gag cartoon, editorial cartoon, book illustration, caricature and commercial art. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Variety, Airmail, WIRED, The Weekly Humorist, and Mad magazine. At 26 he was elected president of the Australian Cartoonists' Association, and later served as the 36th President of the National Cartoonists Society. He is the youngest person to hold both positions since the organizations began.
Kenneth Albert Emerson was an Australian cartoonist and comic strip creator. He is best known for writing the comic strips The Warrumbunglers and On The Rocks. Emerson was the son-in-law of cartoonist Eric Jolliffe.
Tristan Bancks is an Australian children's and teen's author, with a background in filmmaking and acting. As an actor, he is known for his role as Tug O'Neale on Home and Away between 1992 and 1994.
Sydney 'Syd' Wentworth Nicholls was an Australian cartoonist and commercial artist, best known for the long-running comic strip Fatty Finn.
Fatty Finn was a popular long-run Australian comic strip series, created in 1923 by Syd Nicholls. It ran in syndication until the creator's death in 1977.
James Banks may refer to:
Michael James Latimer was a British television stage and film actor who later in his career turned to writing, directing and producing.
Editors Press Service was a print syndication service of columns and comic strips that was in operation from 1933 to 2010. It was notable for being the first U.S. company to actively syndicate material internationally. Despite surviving for more than seven decades, EPS was never a large operation, characterized by comic strip historian Allan Holtz as a "hole-in-the-wall outfit."
