cartoonist, served in the
RAAF in Australia and New Guinea during
WWII. On his return he was appointed to the Victorian Air Board where he illustrated many
RAAF magazines before returning to civilian life. He worked as an artist for Sir Frank Packer’s
ACP, drawing political cartoons for the
Daily Telegraph c.1949-50 (examples Rae, p.83) and illustrations for the
Australian Women’s Weekly and other Consolidated Press publications. According to Alex King, when
Jim Bancks died suddenly in 1952, Packer held a competition among several artists to select a suitable person to continue to draw
Ginger Meggs. Vivian’s entry was chosen. He drew the comic for ACP’s
Sunday Telegraph for 21 years, without acknowledgment, until his own death in 1973.
Married with two daughters. His hobbies were carptentry and sailing, and he built, over many years, a 32 foot yacht entirely with his own hands.
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
