Les Lumsdon

Leslie Lumsdon (16 October 1912 – 1977) was a popular Australian cartoonist for the Newcastle Morning Herald.

Personal life He was born on 16 October 1912 in Abermain, New South Wales. He married his wife Vera on 1 July 1938. Then he got a job at the advertising department at the Hustler's store in Maitland. He spent two years in New Guinea where he made extra money drawing postcards which were popular with American troops. the Muswellbrook Chronicle and the Gippsland Times. From July 1944 a mouthless boy named Nipper began to appear in cartoons published by the Burnie Advocate.

In 1946 he was hired by the Newcastle Herald as a cartoonist. 50 years of the newspaper cartoon in Australia in 1973 at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning, 11 September 1964 - 19 September 1964, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales Lake Macquarie City Library, Speers Point, New South Wales National Trust of Australia (NSW), Sydney, NSW