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[Downunder Dan]

Ambrose Dyson came from a creative family - his father, Ambrose Dyson Sr, was a cartoonist; his uncle Will was a wartime artist, and is unle Ted was a writer for the Bulletin magazine. But he grew up poor, his father having died by the time Ambrose was five, and he left school at the age of 14, providing manual labour to support his mother. In his late 20s he studied at and became a cartoonist. His biggest publication was 'The calamitous career of Dictator Bob', a million copies printed, as part of the campaign to defeat a referendum to outlaw communism in Australia. (Dictator Bob was a caricature of Bob Menzies, the Prime Minister of Australia.)The referendum was defeated. Ambrose died in the year following that referendum, aged 43.

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