Ginger Meggs, a popular long-run Australian comic strip, was created in the early 1920s by Jimmy Bancks. The strip follows the escapades of a red-haired prepubescent mischief-maker who lives in an inner suburban working-class household.
Bancks died 1 July 1952, from a heart attack. Ron Vivian took over the strip, followed by Lloyd Piper, James Kemsley and Jason Chatfield.
source: Ginger Meggs Blog
A Ginger Meggs cortoon strip made for an exhibition appeared at the Worlds Funniest Island comedy festival on Cockatoo Island in Sydney in 2009.