[3] He attended primary schools in the Sydney suburbs of Drummoyne and Balmain before moving to Cobargo in 1918 with his family,[3] on a venture of stripping wattle bark, trapping rabbits and share dairy farming.
In 1929 Dixon returned to Sydney working as a blacksmith's striker for six months[3][4] before joining the Vacuum Oil Company[2] as a truck driver.
[3] He enlisted in the Australian Army on 22 January 1942 in Gladesville, New South Wales but was discharged three months later on 5 May 1942[1] as his earlier injuries prevented him from wearing a tin hat.
[2] He then became Art Editor for the Sydney Production unit of The Courier-Mail,[3] where he remained until February 1957 when he took over responsibility for Bluey and Curley, following the death of Norman Rice in a car accident on 31 December 1956.
[3] During his time on Bluey and Curley Dixon gradually altered the art style and introduced new characters including 'Jazzer', a swagman; and 'Trotters', an old reprobate, to assist in the strip's popularity.
They were the archetypal Aussie blokes who didn't give a bugger about anyone.Dixon also created the comic strips, Little Trump and Phill Dill[3] (about a man "whose life zigzags from one bumbling crisis to another"[6]).
In his retirement, Dixon drew a strip, Sandy Lakes,[5] about a hale and hearty pensioner, which was published in the Central Coast Express Advocate[2] in 1976[4] and ran for thirteen years.