Friday 8 February 2008

Ginger Meggs


I grew up enjoying the cartoon Ginger Meggs which relates the life of a 12 year old red headed Aussie boy; hence the nickname Ginger.

I read where Ginger Meggs has been a cartoon tradition since 1921 and he has been 12 years old for all those 87 years. The fourth cartoonist to draw him was James Kemsley who drew the cartoon from 1984 but he died last December. The replacement is Jason Chatfield and at 23 years he is by far the youngest to draw Ginger. Jason's first Ginger Meggs cartoon will appear tomorrow. Looks like Ginger will be moving into the 21st century.

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