James Charles Bancks (10 May 1889 – 1 July 1952) was an Australian cartoonist and commercial artist, water and illustrator best known for his comic strip Ginger Meggs.

Throughout this period he was studying art under Dattilo Rubbo and Julian Ashton and supplying freelance cartoons to the Sunday Sun.

On 15 October 1931 Bancks married Jessie Nita Tait[2] (daughter of theatrical entrepreneur, Edward Joseph 'E.J.'

Bancks died on 1 July 1952 from a heart attack at his home in Point Piper, New South Wales.

On 27 April 2023, a plaque to commemorate Bancks was formally unveiled at a ceremony at Woollahra Libraries attended by Councillor Richard Shields, Councillor Mary-Lou Jarvis, Kellie Sloane - Member for Vaucluse, Bancks' descendants, cartoonists, and Library local history staff.