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 Guerilla, a Toronto underground newspaper that ran from 1969 through 1974. As the same time, he freelanced for The Toronto Star, Saturday Night, The Financial Post, Maclean’s, Canadian Tribune and other Toronto publications. He was editor of Piranha a humour magazine.
In 1977, he was one of the founders of Union Art Service, a co-operative mailing service of graphics and cartoons which went out to about forty-five labour publications.
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, …. | |||
| 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, …. | ||
| 10: 1994. | 11: 1995. | 12: 1996. |
| Portfoolio …. The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Jay Stone Macmillan of Canada, … | |
| 13, 1997. | 14, 1998. |
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.