Jason Chatfield ([b. Perth, 1984]-) is an Australian editorial and comic strip cartoonist and stand-up comedian, based in Melbourne, Victoria. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing Cartoons Traditionally much of this work was and still is humorous and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes He has been cartooning professionally since 2003. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. His work covers the areas of Political Cartoons, Commissioned Caricatures, Live Caricatures as entertainment at corporate events, and internationally published book illustrations.
In 2005, Chatfield won the Australian Bill Mitchell Award for up-and-coming cartoonist of the year.
Cartooning legend Paul Rigby set up meetings for Chatfield with some of the world's best cartoonists when he flew to New York in 2006. This led to Chatfield meeting such cartooning royalty as Mort Drucker (MAD Magazine), Tom Richmond (MAD Magazine), Sy Barry (The Phantom), Stan Goldberg (Archie), Bill Gallo (New York Daily News),Nancy Beimann (Disney), Bunny Hoest and John Reiner (Howard Huge/Laugh Parade), Rick Stromoski (Mullets), Arnie Roth (The New Yorker) amongst several others.
Chatfield took over writing and drawing the iconic internationally syndicated comic strip Ginger Meggs in 2007, becoming the strip's fifth artist, succeeding James Kemsley (a close friend and mentor). 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 Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. James Lawrence Kemsley OAM ( November 15 1948 &ndash December 3 2007) was an Australian cartoonist who drew Jimmy Bancks Kemsley wrote to the Bancks family to secure approval for Chatfield to succeed him. James Charles Bancks, or Jimmy Bancks (born Enmore, Sydney, 10 May 1889, died Point Piper, Sydney, 1 July Ginger Meggs appears today in over 120 papers in 32 countries worldwide.
He was elected WA Vice President of the Australian Cartoonists' Association in 2006, and then became National Deputy President in 2007. Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. The Australian Cartoonists' Association is the Australian professional cartoonists' organisation and was established in 1924
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