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James Charles Bancks (10 May 1889 – 1 July 1952) was an Australian cartoonist best known for his comic strip Ginger Meggs . Biography. James Charles Bancks was born in Enmore, New South Wales, Australia on 10 May 1889, the son of an Irish railway worker, John Spencer Bancks. [1] .
James Charles (Jim) Bancks (1889-1952), cartoonist, was born at Enmore, Sydney, on 10 May 1889, son of John Spencer Bancks, an Irish railway-porter, and his wife Margaret, née Beston.
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James (Jimmy) Charles Bancks. Born Enmore, New South Wales 1889. Died Sydney, New South Wales 1952. By Lindsay Foyle. On October 9, 1921, The Sunday Sun in Sydney introduced a children’s section edited by the author Ethel Turner. Called Sunbeams it contained a collection of stories, poetry, drawings and letters.
James Charles (Jim) Bancks, creator and artist of the Ginger Meggs comic feature which appeared weekly in the Sunday Sun for 29 years, died suddenly early this morning at his Point Piper home, aged 63.
cartoonist and illustrator, was born on 26 May 1889 at Enmore, Sydney, son of a cleaner on the railways. He grew up at Hornsby, then part of Sydney’s rural fringe, leaving school at 14 to work as a part-time lift driver, wool clerk and office boy but practising drawing in his spare time.
James Charles Bancks (1889 – 1952) was an Australian cartoonist best known for his comic strip Ginger Meggs. His first illustrations were accepted and published by The Comic Australian in 1913, followed by The Arrow in 1914.
Jim Bancks was the creator of the iconic cartoon strip ‘Ginger Meggs’ - capturing not just a suburban Australian childhood, but in Ginger Meggs, an unmistakably Australian character - ‘part larrikin, part battler, part philosopher and part humourist’.
