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gingermeggs · Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 162

Who is Tiger Kelly?

khmerhit · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:27 am Post subject:

Who is gingermeggs? Laughing

kh

lozwich · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 1536

I know the answer to that one!!

Ginger Meggs was a cartoon in newspapers in Australia quite some time ago, can't remember exactly when, maybe post WWII. Maybe he still is in some newspapers, I don't know. But he was a rotten little b a s t a r d, a cheeky mongrel, something akin to Dennis the Menace, but more intelligent. (As so many of us Australians are compared to our US counterparts... Wink

)

As for Tiger Kelly, absolutely no idea.

Lozwich.

johnslat · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 2:54 pm Post subject: Hold that Tiger

Dear gingermeggs - You Beaut,

Would this be the "Tiger Kelly" you referred to?

"Tiger Kelly.
Index entry (p. 24, 74) in Panel by Panel : A History of
Australian Comics, by John Ryan (Stanmore, NSW : Cassell
Australia, 1979). -- Index by John Melloy. -- Call no.:
PN6790.A8R9"

And, aha, he's your nemesis:

http://www.kaleden.com/articles/481.html

"Ginger Meggs - larrikin, battler and comic book hero - was created by cartoonist James Charles Bancks 78 years ago. He first appeared in 1921 as Ginger Smith in the Sydney Sun newspaper - one of the characters in the comic strip Us Fellers. Six months later he had become Ginger Meggs, and had acquired Mike the dog and a younger brother, Dudley. He also had a best mate called Benny, a girlfriend called Minnie Peters, and a rival for her affections, Eddie Coogan. In around a year of Ginger first appearing, the entire cast of the comic strip had been introduced, including his nemesis Tiger Kelly."

Love that Google!

Regards,
John

gingermeggs · Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 162

Well Googled, johnslat...1 bottle of Taishan finest beer is indeed winging its way to you....even as we speak. I remember reading these comics way back in the 40s...regularly ran in most newspapers.
Lozwich...I agree with the "intelligent" bit. but Ginge was never a little "bathplug"....now, how about "Bluey and Curly" ?

lozwich · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 1536

Ermmmm... no offence Ginge, but I wasn't actually around in the 40s... Embarassed

I just know the cartoon as a cultural thing in Oz, and because the media and stuff is my particular area of expertise. I'm sure that in the papers now he's not a terribly charming character - or at least that's what the adults in the strip think of him.

Who are Bluey and Curly? Or is that just showing my age again? Wink

gingermeggs · Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 162

Yep, Lozwich...showing your age...or lack of it!!! Bluey and Curly.....
http://www.oldcmp.net/bluey.html

johnslat

Dear gingermeggs,

"1 bottle of Taishan finest beer is indeed winging its way to you....even as we speak."

Good thing I have friends who still partake, since I've been dry for almost 3 years now. And, after 40 years of guzzling with the best of them, the wonder is that I made it this far.
Regards,
John

lozwich · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 1536