James Lawrence Kemsley OAM (November 15, 1948 – December 3, 2007) was an Australian cartoonist who drew Jimmy Bancks' original creation, Ginger Meggs. Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia on 14 February 1975 "for the purpose of according recognition Events 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. James Charles Bancks, or Jimmy Bancks (born Enmore, Sydney, 10 May 1889, died Point Piper, Sydney, 1 July Ginger Meggs is the longest-running Australian Comic strip; it features the escapades of the title character a red-haired pre-pubescent boy with considerable
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Childhood
James Kemsley was born in the Sydney suburb of Paddington but lived for a few years with his parents and sister in New Guinea where his father served as mastor of patrol boats. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 He then attended the Roman Catholic boarding schools Sacred Heart and Chevalier, which were situated in the New South Wales town of Bowral. He then lived for a while with his father in Traralgon in Victoria. [1]
Early TV and Acting Career
James Kemsley's background was in acting and television. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Kemsley was known to children's television audiences as "Skeeter the Paperboy", an on-screen cap-wearing persona that he portrayed as a cast member of The Super Flying Fun Show, and then as host of Skeeter's Cartoon Corner in Sydney and Melbourne, both on the Nine Network. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian television network based in Willoughby, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney
The daily afternoon program offered a mix of US-based cartoons (such as Wacky Races, Scooby Doo and The Archies), with viewer competitions. Wacky Races is an animated television series from Hanna-Barbera, about a group of 11 different cars racing against each other in various road rallies with each driver Scooby-Doo is a long-running American animated series produced for Saturday morning television in several different versions from 1969 to the For the self-titled syndicated version of the 1968-1978 animated television franchise of which The Archies were a part please see The Archie Show. One of his tag lines on the telephone with viewer contestants who were unsuccessful was "golly gosh". When Kemsley left in 1973, John Farnham took over the time slot. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. John Peter Farnham, AO (born July 1, 1949) is a British-born Australian pop Singer.
In 1973 Kemsley compered a variety program on the Nine Network titled Junior Cabaret. He also appeared in the ABC TV mini-series The Cousin From Fiji and Seven Little Australians. Seven Little Australians (1894 is a classic Australian children's novel by Ethel Turner.
Kemsley studied acting at the Independent Theatre of Dramatic Art from 1969 - 1972 under Doris Fitton and attended the Playwright Forum at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1973 under the directorship of David Whittaker. Dame Doris Alice Fitton Mason DBE, CBE, OBE ( 3 November 1897, Manila Philippines to Walter Fitton and his wife Janet The National Institute of Dramatic Art ( NIDA) is an Australian national training institute for students of Theatre, Film, and Television He went on to write three successful children's plays, "The Land Of Coloured Dreams", "Once Upon A Time. . . And All That" and "The Magical Adventures of Puck".
Kemsley left Channel Nine and then studied in England at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in 1979. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA) in Bloomsbury, London, is generally regarded as one of the most prestigious Drama schools in the world
Cartoonist
In 1984 Kemsley was invited to take over the syndicated comic strip, Ginger Meggs, and several comic books featuring the character have since been published. Ginger Meggs is the longest-running Australian Comic strip; it features the escapades of the title character a red-haired pre-pubescent boy with considerable
He has also contributed to The Traralgon Journal, Adelaide's Sunday Mail, Sydney's The Sun-Herald, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Telegraph. Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 This article is about the Australian newspaper For the newspaper in Biloxi Mississippi see The Sun Herald. The Sydney Morning Herald ( SMH) is a daily Broadsheet Newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. Kemsley has twice served as the President of the Australian Cartoonists' Association.
Awards include the 2001 Stanley Award for Cartoonist of the Year, presented by the Australian Cartoonist's Association. The Australian Cartoonists' Association is the Australian professional cartoonists' organisation and was established in 1924 In 1990 & 2004, Kemsley received the Stanley for Comic Strip Artist, as voted by his peers. Under Kemsley's pen and Atlantic Syndication's marketing, "Ginger Meggs" now appears in newspapers in over 120 newspaper in 30 countries.
He suffered motor neurone disease and died in his hometown Bowral, aged 59, in 2007. The motor neurone diseases (or motor neuron diseases) (MND are a group of progressive neurological disorders that destroy Motor neurones the cells that control voluntary Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. [2] He is survived by his wife, Helen and three children.
On 9 June 2008, in the Queen's Birthday honours, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), with effect from 24 September 2007. Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia on 14 February 1975 "for the purpose of according recognition [3]
References
Sources
Select Bibliography of Kemsley's Books
- The Pocket Frogin' (Commercial Publications 1981 London)
- Ginger Meggs at Large (North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1985).
- A Look Inside Ginger Meggs (Melbourne: Budget Books, 1988).
- What's My Name Mean? (North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1987).
- The Infamous Adventures of Ginger Meggs (North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1987).
- Kemsley's T'rific Trivia (Melbourne: Budget Books, 1988).
- Wake Up, Ginger Meggs (North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1989).
- The Cartoon Book (Sydney, New York: Scholastic, 1990).
- The Cartoon Book 2 (Sydney, New York: Scolastic,1994)
- Images of Bradman with Peter Allen (Sydney: Allen and Kemsley, 1994).
- Some Day's You're a Legend - Some Days You Ain't (Sydney: Allen and Kemsley, 1995).
- When You're Into Graffiti - The Writing's On The Wall (Sydney: Allen and Kemsley, 1998).
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