Ron Vivian b. 19 February 1914

Also known as Ronald Charles Vivian
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Ron Vivian was a mid 20th century Sydney cartoonist who is credited with keeping "Ginger Meggs" in print after the sudden death of Jim Bancks. Vivian drew the comic fo Sydney's Sunday Telegraph for 21 years without acknowledgement until his own death.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records 50303/1973’.

  • Rae, Richard, '1983’, p.82, ff (reminiscence by Alex King).

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

  • Daily Telegraph, Sydney, NSW.

  • Australian Women’s Weekly, Sydney, NSW.

  • Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'World War II Nominal Roll : RAAF’, www.ww2roll.gov.au.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists