WHALLEY Peter
Some Of It Was Fun. Dust jacket.
“What is really amazing is that he was able to make a living freelancing at a time when there weren’t any freelance cartoonists in the country.” Roy Peterson
He was a freelance a cartoonist who appeared in magazines like The Star Weekly, Weekend and Maclean’s and produced the books listed below. In 1965 at the Second International Salon of Cartoons in Montréal he shared the top prize in the editorial cartoons division with Victor Weiz.
He did film strips for the National Film Board. In his later years he turned to sculpture, building his own foundry.
He was born about 1921 in Brockville Ontario. He lived in Halifax and spent four years travelling the world as a ship’s wireless operator. He went to Montréal in 1945 studied painting for two years and began selling cartoons. From the late 1940’s to his death, he and his family resided in Morin Heights, Québec in a rebuilt homesteader’s house known locally as Whalley’s Folly. His chief hobby was playing the oboe. He died September 18, 2007 in a hospital in St Jérôme Quebec at the age of 86 years.
WORK:
CARTOONIST:
BOOK GRAPHIC:
Content humour & Cover book front & back:
Great Moments In Canadian History, Captions by John Robert Colombo. Hounslow Press, 1984.
Man on the Wire, Mussen Book Co. Ltd., 1963.
Content humour & Cover dust jacket front & back + endpapers
Broom Brush & Bucket, The Good Old Days of Mrs. Beeton’s Housewifery, Ryerson Press, 1965. Whalley produced cartoons spoofing various instructions in a 19th century housekeeping book
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC:
Content humour & Cover book front:
Northern Blights. Cart., Peter Whalley. Writ., Mary Geggie. Upbank Press, 1972. Geggie wrote about poets. Whalley caricatured the painters.
PERIODICAL TEXT ANTHOLOGY:
Content:
Feature cartoon:
Maclean’s, 15 Dec. 1954: “Peter Whalley’s Old Fashion Christmas Cards”: 21-24.
Panel cartoon:
Maclean’s, 16 Apr. 1965: “I Remember School Days: No. 10, Report Card”: 38.
ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK TEXT:
Content memoir Cover dust jacket:
Some Of It Was Fun, Writ., Wallace Reyburn. Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1949. Dust jacket
Content humour & Cover dust jacket:
There’s a lot of it going around. Writ., Eric Nicol. Doubleday Canada Ltd., 1975.
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC:
Content collections & Cover book front & back:
Colombo’s 101 Canadian Places, Col., John Robert Colombo. Hounslow Press, 1983.
Content collections & Cover book front :
Colombo’s Last Words: The Dying Words of Eminent Canadians. Col., John Robert Colombo. Highway Book Shop, 1982.
Content collections & Cover dust jacket front:
Colombo’s Little Book Of Canadian Proverbs, Graffiti Limericks & Other Vital Matters. Col., John Robert Colombo. Hurtig Publishers, 1975.
Content humour & Cover book front:
An Uninhibited History Of Canada, Writ., Eric Nicol. David Hackett, 1959.
Canadian Politics Unplugged. Writ., Eric Nicol. Houndslow Book/Dundurn Press, 2003.
Content humour & Cover dust jacket :
Canada Cancelled Because Of Lack Of Interest. Writ., Eric Nicol. Hurtig Publishers, 1977.
Russia, Anyone?: A Completely Uncalled For – History of the U.S.S.R., Writ., Eric Nicol. Harper & Row Publishers, 1963.
Say, Uncle: A Completely Uncalled For History of the U.S., Writ., Eric Nicol. Harper & Row Brothers, 1961.
PERIODICAL TEXT ANTHOLOGY:
Cover front:
| Maclean’s,…: | ||
| 27, Sept. 1958 | 8, Nov. 1958. | |
Content essay:
Maclean’s, 5 July 1958: “Why I hate doctors.” Writ., Hugh Garner.: 27.
Weekend, 9-22, 30 May 1959: “What Do You Know About Poisons.” Writ., Harriet Crittenden. 12-13.
SOURCE:
Article book:
The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1979: 253.
Some Of It Was Fun, Writ., Wallace Reyburn. Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1949: Dust jacket.
GALLERY:
From Man On The Wire, 1963: Back cover and front cover.
From There’s a lot of it going around.1975. Front cover.