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
