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Cartoonist James Kemsley, who penned the Ginger Meggs comic strip for more than 20 years, has died after a two-year battle with motor neurone disease. He was 59.
Kemsley was the fourth cartoonist to draw the comic strip about the precocious red-haired boy named Ginger.
He took over production of the comic in 1984, and was widely credited with transforming the Sunday strip to a daily format and expanding readership to more than 120 newspapers around the world.
