What is John Dixon (cartoonist)?
'''John Dangar Dixon''' (20 February 1929 &ndash; 7 May 2015) was an [[Australia]]n [[comic book]] [[artist]] and [[writer]]. He was best known for his [[comic strip]] creation, ''[[Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors]]'', which ran from 1959 until 1986. Dixon was born in [[Newcastle, New South Wales|Newcastle]], [[New South Wales]]. He moved to the [[United States]] in the 1980s. In 2012, he was diagnosed with [[Dementia with Lewy bodies|Lewy body dementia]] (LBD), a type of [[dementia]] related to [[Parkinson's disease]]. He was married to Sue and had two children. Dixon had a [[stroke]] on 18 April 2015 at his home in the U.S. state of [[California]]. He died on 7 May, aged 86.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comicoz.com/comic-related-news/john-danger-dixon-1929-1915|title=John Danger Dixon: 1929-1915|publisher=ComicOz|last=Karmichael|first=Nat|date=7 May 2015|accessdate=9 May 2015}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dixon, John}} [[Category:1929 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Artists from New South Wales]] [[Category:Australian cartoonists]] [[Category:Comics artists]] [[Category:Writers from New South Wales]] [[Category:People from Newcastle, New South Wales]] {{Bio-stub}}