James Charles Bancks b. 26 May 1889

Also known as Jim Bancks, Jimmy Bancks, James C. Bancks, J. Banks
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Popular and influential mid 20th century Sydney and Melbourne cartoonist and illustrator. Bancks is best known as the creator of Ginger Meggs and for a time he was Australia's highest paid black-and-white artist, receiving £80 a week in the 1920s.

Citations

  • Murray, Alec (November 1946), 'B.P. Magazine’.

  • Clifford-Smith, Silas (7 January 2009) 'Information sourced from’.

  • 'Joan Kerr Archive’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, 1977 biography by Barry Andrews.

  • Andrews, B. G. (Barry) (1979), 'Bancks, James Charles (1889 – 1952)’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, Melbourne University Press, pp 163-164.

  • Bancks, James C. (1929), 'The Sunbeams Book. More Adventures of Ginger Meggs. Series 6’, Sydney, NSW : Sun Newspapers Ltd.

  • Foyle, Lindsay (1997), 'Ginger Meggs’, Australian Black and White Artists Club.

  • Hall, Ken G. (1983), 'Profile’, Marrickville, NSW : View Productions, in Rae, Richard (ed.), Cartoonists of Australia.

  • Horgan, John (ed.) (1978), 'The Golden Years of Ginger Meggs’, Menindie, NSW : Souvenir Press & Brolga Books.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1979), 'The inked-in image : a social and historical survey of Australian comic art’, Richmond, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (new edition).

  • Poole, Philippa (ed.) (1979), 'The Diaries of Ethel Turner’, Sydney, NSW : Lansdowne, (paperback edition 1998), pp.332-33.

  • Rafty, Tony; with Mack, Brodie (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, Sydney, NSW : Blaxland Gallery.

  • Ryan, John (1979), 'Panel by Panel : A History of Australian Comics’, Stanmore, NSW : Cassell Australia.

  • Anon (1946), 'Bancks : Creator of Ginger Meggs’, Sydney, NSW : Pix, 11-30, pp 22-23, 11, 30.

  • (1952), 'City’s last tribute to artist Jim Bancks’, Sydney, NSW : Daily Telegraph, 07-03.

  • (1952), 'Vale Jimmy Bancks’, Sydney, NSW : Bulletin, 07-09.

  • (1952), 'Cartoonist J.C. Bancks dies’, Sydney Morning Herald, 07-02.

  • (1952), 'Artist dies at 63’, Sydney, NSW : Daily Telegraph, 07-02.

  • (1952), 'Jim Bancks, Ginger were inseperable’, Sydney, NSW : Daily Telegraph, 07-02, p 5.

  • Andrews, Barry (1982), 'Ginger Meggs : His Story’, Melbourne, Vic : Kibble, in Dermody, Susan; Docker, John; & Modjeska, Drusilla (eds), Nellie Melba, Ginger Meggs and Friends : Essays in Australian cultural history, pp 211-33.

  • 'Joan Kerr Archive’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, 1977 biography by Barry Andrews.

  • Bancks, James C. (1943), 'More Adventures of Ginger Meggs : Series 20. Sunbeams Book’, Sydney, NSW : Associated Newspapers Ltd.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1994), 'Drawing from life : a history of the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales Press.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1997), 'Jim Bancks (1889-1952)’, Inkspot 28 (Spring), pp 30-3.

  • Ryan, John (1999), 'Bancks, James Charles (1889-1952)’, Philadelphia, PA, USA : Chelsea House, in Horn, Maurice (ed.), The World Encyclopedia of Comics (revised and updated), vol.1, pp 109-10.

  • Sydney, NSW : Comic Australian.

  • Sydney, NSW : Bulletin.

  • Sydney, NSW : Lone Hand.

  • Sydney, NSW : Home.

  • Tuner, Ethel (ed.), 'Sunbeams’, Sydney, NSW : Sunday Sun.

  • Melbourne, Vic : Sun News-Pictorial.

  • Melbourne, Vic : Evening Sun.

  • Melbourne Punch.

  • Melbourne, Vic : Table Talk.

  • Sydney, NSW : Sunday Telegraph.

  • Aedy, Richard (2005), ''Comic Relief ?’ (interview with Lindsay Foyle about Ginger Meggs)’, ABC Radio National, 06-30.

See also

  • 'Harry Julius caricature of Bancks c.1920s (original ML, Bulletin collection)'.
  • 'Harry Wann caricature of Bancks (ill. Lindesay, Inkspot p.33)'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists