Nils Josef Jonsson, originally from Sweden and via a few years in New Zealand, settled in Australia in 1918. He became a prolific Australian cartoonist working for Smith’s Weekly from 1924 until it closed in 1950. Jonsson was best known for Uncle Joe’s Horse Radish which appeared in colour for many of the years it ran (1951 - 1963) and was syndicated across Australia. This strip featured in the Christmas Sun Children’s Supplement of 1954.