West Australian Jason Chatfield has taken over drawing the popular Ginger Meggs cartoon.
After the death of James Kemsley, the fourth cartoonist to draw Meggs, responsibility for the kid with a knack for being in the right place at the wrong time rests with Jason Chatfield, 23, a close friend of Kemsley.
Chatfield, who works from his home studio in Tuart Hill, has been asked to take over the strip, which was first published in 1921
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Information about the comic strip: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Meggs
More information about Jason can be found on his website: www.jasonchatfield.com .
Information about other West Australian cartoonists can be found on the Australian Cartoonists’ Association: http://www.abwac.org.au/membersearch/your_local_cartoonists__locality_guide/western_australia/index.php
Some early West Australian cartoons:
Convicts at work, 1867 (003100d)
Political cartoon The Conference, ca 1925 (032720PD)
Paul Rigby 1974 (360888PD)
Also, some West Australian cartoonists are included in the ‘Behind the Lines 2007 : The Year’s Best Cartoons Exhibition’: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_2007_the_years_best_cartoons/
See our catalogue for our holdings of West Australian cartoonists and information about them.
