Peter Ledger

In addition to studying art, Ledger worked with surveying teams in the Australian outback, hunted deer for the government in New Zealand, was a professional scuba diver, a leathermaker, and a gourmet cook.

He raced motorcycles, flew hot air balloons, was a body builder, and in later years became a private pilot.

Ledger rose to the top as an illustrator in Australia, famous for his intricate airbrush work[2] and fantasy images.

[9] One of his contributions to the comic book field was the fully painted and airbrushed work on the series, Weirdworld: Warriors of the Shadow Realm.

[12] It was a coffee table art book of Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times, as written and drawn by Carl Barks.

As a team, they produced a number of comic book stories such as Carlos McLlyr[9] and The Sisterhood of Steel graphic novel.

In 1988, Ledger and his wife travelled to Bonn, Germany to have his limited edition aviation print signed by famous German World War II ace, Adolf Galland.

Ledger's wife Christy Marx includes an account of his death in a biographical article on her official website.