Happy 100th Birthday, Ginger Meggs!
Today marks the 100th anniversary of Ginger’s first appearance in print, on 13th November 1921.
The first appearance of Ginger Meggs in “Us Fellers”, Sunday November 13, 1921.
Ginger has undergone many different transformations in the past century, all the while maintaining his true Aussie larrikin spirit.
The editor of The Sunday Sun, Eric Baume claimed in 1935 Bancks had “created a post-war character which was to sweep the Commonwealth and New Zealand. Ginger Meggs is the most human character created by any caricaturist in the second and third decades of the century. Not because Ginger is loved by the 280,000 readers of The Sunday Sun is this assertion made, but because the sheer Australian characteristics of the lad have endeared him to readers of newspapers in every part of this country and of New Zealand.”
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To commemorate the anniversary, A special strip will be appearing this weekend as a homage to Bancks’ very first panel of Us Fellers, with the gang playing that very same cricket game…
