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William Ellis Green OAM (12 August 1923 – 29 December 2008), who signed his cartoons WEG, was an Australian editorial cartoonist and illustrator who drew the Australian Football League premiers posters from 1954 until his death. ==Biography== Born on 12 August 1923, father unknown, Green whose real name was Ian changing it by deed poll to William. Green grew up in Essendon. Torn between becoming an architect or a cartoonist after leaving Essendon High School, he studied architecture at the Melbourne Technical College, because his mother warned: "You'll starve if you're a cartoonist."() At the age of eighteen he enlisted in the Australian Army, where was attached to the 15th Brigade Army Intelligence in New Guinea. He drew cartoons that were published in the Army's newspaper. Following his discharge from the army at the end of World War II Green resumed his architectural studies but he abandoned architecture in favour of a postwar rehabilitation art course at the National Gallery of Victoria, where his tutors included Sir William Dargie. During this time he submitted cartoons to ''The Herald'', when the paper's political cartoonist, Sammy Wells, went on holiday for six weeks in 1946 Green was ask to fill in for him. His work appealed to the editor-in-chief, John Williams, and in 1947 Bill was invited to join the Herald staff permanently. He continued to be a political cartoonist for ''The Herald'' until he retired in 1986, after 40 years in that role. Green was responsible for introducing the daily 'pocket' cartoon, Weg's Day, a single column topical comment humorously presented, that appeared for the first time in 1949 and continued in the Herald front page for thirty-eight years. On 14 May 1949 Green married Joan Hettie Currell in Milton, Queensland. Green continued working as a caricaturist and illustrator with his work appearing in cricket books by Max Walker, on stamps and in children's books. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Ellis Green」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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