JEFF BUCHANON
This adventure strip was created by Gordon Johnston, cartoonist and illustrator and Gordon Dewar a parliamentary reporter for the Ottawa Journal. It was launched, 19 May 1960 by the Toronto Telegram News Service at $18 per week and underwent four months of trial runs in three provinces. With the success of these runs it was syndicated by the Toronto Telegram News Service, 17 October 1960 and began in the Toronto Telegram on February 6, 1961, when Buchanan begins his second adventure in British Columbia. It lasted only until 11 August 1961. It appeared in 15 Canadian newspapers including the Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Journal, Price George [B.C.] Citizen, Regina Leader Post, St John’s [Nfld] Telegram, Sudbury Star, Sydney [N.S.} Post, Victoria Colonist, and Winnipeg Free Press. It was sold to La Presse of Montréal who did their own translation.
Jeff Buchanon was a national correspondent at the Parliamentary Press Galley who roamed the country looking for stories. It seems though he spent much more time fighting criminals. In one story he cleaned up a gang of racketeers in “Montreal, the gay Paris of North America”. In another he was fighting terrorists in British Columbia.
SOURCE:
Article periodical:
Inks: Cartoon & Comic Arts Studies, 4-2, May 1997: “An Introduction to the Canadian Newspaper Comic.” Writ., Kenneth Barker: 18-25.
Maclean’s, 28 Jan. 1961: “The small but lively propaganda war of comic strips.” Writ., David Lewis Stein: 54.
Punch In Canada, 23 Oct. 2008: “Jeff Buchanan.” Writ., John Adcock.
University of Western Ontario Alumni Gazette, 29 June 2009: “Canadian comic artist Gordon Johnston found inspiration in historical facts.” Writ., Jeet Hee
Archive:
The Gordon Johnston papers at the Western University London Ontario.
GALLERY:
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