CONSTABLE Mike
“Cartoonists work by the sweat of their hand and the work of their brow.” The Hecklers: 234.
Born 1943 in Woodstock Ontario.
He studied sculpture at the Ontario College of Art and later sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa. He co-founded and was editor of Guerilla, a Toronto underground newspaper that ran from 1969 through 1974. As the same time, he freelanced for, Canadian Tribune, The Financial Post, Maclean’s, Saturday Night, This Magazine, Toronto Life, The Toronto Star and other magazines in Canada and the U.S. He was editor of Piranha a humour magazine.
In 1977, he was one of the founders of Union Art Services, a co-operative mailing service of graphics and cartoons which went out to about forty-five labour publications. From 1980, he has curated art at Partisan Gallery and since 1990 worked in animation.
Outside of graphic arts he has been involved as a designer, director and performer in street theatre.
WORK:
CARTOONIST:
BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content editorial cartoon:
Best Canadian Political Cartoons, 1983. Ed., N.M. Stahl. For., David Rosen. McClelland & Stewart
Ltd. Sept. 1983.
Best Canadian Political Cartoons, 1984. Ed., N.M. Stahl. For., Robert LaPalme. McClelland & Stewart
Ltd. Sept. 1984.
Portfoolio, The Year 85 In Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux & Alan King. Writ., Charles
Gordon. Ludcom Inc. 1985.
Portfoolio, The Year 86 In Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux. Writ., Charles Gordon. Ludcom
Inc. 1986.
Portfoolio, The Year 87 In Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux. Ludcom Inc. 1987.
1988 Portfoolio, The Year In Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux. Writ., Charles Gordon.
Eden Press. 1988.
Portfoolio: 1989 in Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux. Writ., Charles Gordon. Macmillan of
Canada, 1989.
| Portfoolio …: The Year in Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux. Writ., Charles Gordon. Macmillan
of Canada, …. |
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| 6: 1990. | 7: 1991. | 8: 1992. | 9: 1993. |
| Portfoolio…: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Ken MacQueen
Macmillan of Canada, …. |
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| 10: 1994. | 11: 1995. | 12: 1996. |
| Portfoolio …. The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Jay Stone
Macmillan of Canada, … |
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| 13, 1997. | 14, 1998. |
PERIODICAL TEXT:
Content editorial cartoon:
The City, Toronto Star Sunday Magazine, Sept. 23, 1979: 30.
Saturday Night, 111-2, March 1996: “What you need to cruise the infobahn”: 72.
Saturday Night, 111-4, May 1996: “Dating and Mad Cow Disease”: 26.
This Magazine, May/June 1979: 28.
Toronto Life, 23-12, August 1989: “Underground cinema”: 18-19.
Toronto Life, 33-16, November 1999: “Why Basement Apartments Are So Great”: 63.
SOURCE:
Article book:
The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1979: 233-
234.
Portfoolio, The Year 85 In Canadian Caricature.1985: “Mike Constable”: 199.
Portfoolio 14: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons.1998: “ Mike Constable”: 144..
GALLERY:
Saturday Night, April 1996, 100.
Toronto Life, 33-16, November 1999: 63.