James Lawrence Kemsley OAM (15 November 1948 â€" 3 December 2007) was
an Australian cartoonist who was notable for producing the comic strip
Ginger Meggs (originally created by Jimmy Bancks) between 1984 and
2007.James Kemsley was born in the Sydney suburb of Paddington, but
lived for a few years with his parents and sister in New Guinea where
his father served as mastor of patrol boats. He then attended the
Roman Catholic boarding schools, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College
(1958â€"60) and Chevalier College (1961â€"62), both located in Bowral,
New South Wales. He also attended the Christian Brothers College at
Rose Bay (1962â€"63). Afterwards he lived for a while with his father
in Traralgon, Victoria.Kemsley attended the Independent School of
Dramatic Art, North Sydney (1968â€"71) as well as a National Institute
of Dramatic Art Playwright Forum in 1973 and a RADA Professional
Workshop in London in 1979.Kemsley's background was in acting and
television. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Kemsley was known to
television audiences as "Skeeter the Paperboy", an on-screen
cap-wearing persona (who once said his full name was Amos Skeeter - a
play on "a mosquito") that he portrayed as a cast member of The Super
Flying Fun Show, and then as host of Skeeter's Cartoon Corner in
Sydney and Melbourne, both on the Nine Network. James Kemsley Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter