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 on the paper's front page for 38 years.
The posters, generally featuring a caricature of the winning club's mascot smiling gleefully, continued to sell around 100,000 copies each year.
[4] The family of the late cartoonist release a grand final poster every year in his memory from artwork supplied by Green before he died.
[5] Green died on 29 December 2008 at the Maroondah Hospital; he was survived by his wife Joan, daughter Lynette, and son Ian.
[6][7] In June 2001, Green received the Medal of the Order of Australia "for service to art as a cartoonist and illustrator, and to the community, particularly through the Good Friday Appeal of the Royal Children's Hospital.
"[8] In 2003, he received the Jim Russell Award from the Australian Cartoonists' Association in acknowledgement of his lifelong contribution to the profession of cartooning.