Australia’s
Favourite
Little Battler!
Since 1921
AUSTRALIA’S
OLDEST BOY
Meggsie’s 102nd Birthday
Ginger Meggs is Australia’s longest-running comic strip. It was created in 1921 by Sydney cartoonist Jimmy Bancks. 5 cartoonists and 102 years later, kids and grown-ups alike are still reveling in the rambunctious adventures and comical capers of the red-headed larrikin kid who never gets old.
NEW BOOK
AVAILABLE NOW!
Four fresh stories to celebrate the one and only Ginger Meggs!
Celebrating 100 years of the iconic character and Aussie legend Ginger Meggs, these four brand new and original stories are written by Tristan Bancks, the great-great nephew of creator Jimmy Bancks, and illustrated in full colour by the current Ginger Meggs comic-strip cartoonist, Jason Chatfield.
Kids and grown-ups alike will revel in the rambunctious adventures and comical capers of the ginger kid who never gets old.
RIGHT ON
THE MONEY!
Four brand new Limited Edition Ginger Meggs Centenary Dollar Coins from the Royal Australian Mint.
To celebrate the 100th birthday of Ginger Meggs, the Royal Australian Mint has released two limited-edition coloured coin sets. Each coin set includes two coloured uncirculated $1 coins that feature our lovable mate, using original artwork from 1921 and 2021.
A SCAMP ON A STAMP!
New Ginger Meggs Centenary Stamps from Australia Post
In September, Australia Post celebrates 100 years of the distinctive and ever-youthful Ginger Meggs. Its commemorative stamp issue features the work of three of the stellar cartoonists who have illustrated Ginge since he made his entry onto the pages of Sydney’s Sunday Sun in 1921: Jimmy Bancks, James Kemsley and Jason Chatfield. The handsome young Ginge appears not just in the stamp designs but also in a host of philatelic products, including a minisheet, stamp pack, first day cover, a maxicard set and two stamp and coin covers, housing coins produced by the Royal Australian Mint.
MEET THE GANG!
Learn all about Ginger’s Friends, Foes, Family & Frienemies…
“Ginger Meggs is like Australia’s Peter Pan. Most of us can recognise in him our own youth, but unlike him, we had to grow up.”
— John Curtin
Australian Prime Minister, 1942
ZOOM WITH GINGER
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COLLECTOR’S CORNER
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