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y separately published work icon Ginger Meggs series - author  
Alternative title: Us Fellers
Date: 2008-
Date: 1984-2007
Date: 1973-1983
Date: 1953-1973
Date: 1921-1952
Issue Details: First known date: 1921... 1921 Ginger Meggs
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'Ginger Meggs, under the name of Us Fellers, was first published in 1921 on the 'Sunbeams' pages of the Sunday Sun ... Us Fellers alternated with a number of other comics for several months, and it wasn't until March 12, 1922, that it took up its position on the front page and became a weekly feature ... Ginger had been one of the boys in the first episode of Us Fellers. By the end of the year, Bancks had manoeuvred him to be the centre of attention.'

Lindsay Foyle, 'The Most Important Boy in Australia', Ginger Meggs website, http://www.gingermeggs.com/
Sighted: 17/09/2008

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Ginger Meggs Ginger Meggs: The Movie Michael Latimer , ( dir. Jonathan Dawson ) Australia : John Sexton Productions , 1982 7432509 1982 single work film/TV children's

'Based on the Ginger Meggs comic strip, this is the colourful story of an optimistic 11-year-old growing up in Australia in the 1950s.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 2/6/2014)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1921
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Related Works

The Adventures of Ginger Meggs Ray Lawler , Agnes Fulton (composer), 1952 single work musical theatre children's
y separately published work icon The Golden Years of Ginger Meggs, 1921-1952 J. C. Bancks , John Horgan (editor), Medindie : Souvenir Press and Brolga Books , 1978 Z232633 1978 selected work short story Compilation of the 'Ginger Meggs' comic strips by J. C. Bancks.
y separately published work icon Ginger Meggs at Large : Based on the Stories and Characters of Bancks James Kemsley , London Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1985 Z203492 1985 single work children's fiction children's adventure
y separately published work icon It's Sunday, Ginger Meggs James Kemsley , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1988 Z203696 1987 single work children's fiction children's adventure
y separately published work icon The Infamous Adventures of Ginger Meggs James Kemsley , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1987 Z203388 1987 selected work children's fiction children's adventure
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Works about this Work

Comic Strip Larrikin Ginger Meggs to Paint Town Red Linda Morris , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 July 2015; (p. 11)
Ginger Meggs Still Drawing in the Fans after 90 Years Tim Barlass , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 13 November 2011; (p. 25)
This Meggs Show Isn't Lost in Translation Claire Low , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 October 2009; (p. 18)
Little Red Terror Claire Low , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 September 2009; (p. 4-5)
WA Twist to New Look Ginger Meggs 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 February 2008; (p. 10)
y separately published work icon A Birthday Celebration for Ginger Meggs : Congratulations to the Little Aussie Battler Ginger Meggs Souvenir Book Robert Holden , Sydney : Blaxland Gallery , 1986 Z1089424 1986 single work criticism Exhibition catalogue researched and written by Robert Holden.
More Adventures of Ginger Meggs Robert Holden , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Way , January 1987; (p. 31-33)
Chatfield Has Very Big Shoes to Fill - His Friend Kemsley's Scott Richardson , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 16 December 2007; (p. 34)
Meggs Will Make Us Laugh Another Day Frank Crook , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Daily Telegraph , 11 December 2007; (p. 51)
At 86 Not Out, a Century Nears for an Aussie Icon Ray Cassin , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 8 December 2007; (p. 3) Ray Cassin talks with Jason Chatfield about the need to keep twelve-year-old Ginger Meggs fresh for modern readers and the challenges posed by having the comic strip tranlslated across languages and cultures.
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