Artists
James C Bancks (dec.) created, wrote, drew and syndicated Ginger Meggs from 1921-1952
[In the interim, there were a years worth of strips to run while another artist was found.
Ron Vivian (dec.) wrote and drew Ginger Meggs from 1953-1973
Lloyd Piper (dec.) wrote and drew Ginger Meggs from 1973-1983
James Kemsley (dec.) wrote, drew and syndicated Ginger Meggs from 1984-2007 On 3 December 2007, James Kemsley, cartoonist for Ginger Meggs for 23 years, died at his home in Welby, New South Wales. In the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honour lists, the Australian Government posthumously recognised Kemsley for his efforts with the Medal of the Order of Australia.
Jason Chatfield now writes, draws and syndicates Ginger Meggs since 2007. The strip remains widely syndicated today, appearing in over 120 newspapers in 34 countries.
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“The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs.... Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)
“The past is interesting not only for the beauty which the artists for whom it was the present were able to extract from it, but also as past, for its historical value. The same goes for the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty in which it may be clothed, but also from its essential quality of being present.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)