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OHRT, H. B.

OHRT, H. B.

Was part of the artistic team at Hillborough Studio but did not transfer to Bell Features & Publishing when Hillborough ceased operations.

WRITER:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:                                                                          Published by Hillborough Studios.

Content serial:

Triumph Adventure Comics…:. “Spanner Preston: Spies of the Airways”:… Illus., Léon James. Black & white
1-1, Aug. 1941.: 1-16. 1-2, Sept. 1941.: 15-29. 1-3, Oct., 1941: 1-11. 1-4, Nov. 1941: 26-37. 1-5, Jan.1942: 44-53.

Triumph Adventure Comics, 1-6, Feb. 1942.: “Spanner Preston: Spies of the Airways.” Writ., unidentified probably H. B. Ohrt. Illus., unidentified probably Léon James: 1-11.

Triumph Adventure Comics …: “Tang: The Story of the Western Range”… Illus., René Kulbach. Black & white
1-5, January 1942: 54-63. 1-6, February 1942: 54-63. .

O’HENLEY John

O’HENLEY John

Born 1923. He cartooned several information panel series for Bell Features & Publishing.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

All published by Bell Features & Publishing Co.

Content panel information:

Active Comics,…: “The Flight Parade:…”: …. Black & white.
2, March 1942:: “Francois Pilatre de Rosier”:16.

3, no date: “ Pioneer Passengers”:16

 4, no date: “Andre Jacques Garnerin”: 30

Active Comics, 2, March. 1942: “Humour”: 52 Black & white.

Active Comics, 2, March. 1942: “Oddities Strange and Unusual Things” :17.Black & white.

Active Comics, 4, no date: “On The Road”: 11. “Black & white.

Active Comics…: “Phoney Laws”:…. Black & white.
1, February. 1942: 49. 2, March. 1942: 50

O’DONNELL Liam

O’DONNELL Liam

C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE OF PERSON\O\O'Donnell Liam, Case Of Slim Stampede,2015, 142.jpg                                      Tank & Fizz: The Case Of The Slime Stampede. 2015: 142.

Born in Northern Ireland, at 5 years old he migrated with his family to Canada.

He studied media at Ryerson University and worked in the film industry  in Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

In 1999, with the publication of his first book, System Shock he left the film industry to focus on writing. He developed educational radio plays for the BBC and adapted TV scripts for Kids Can Press.

He has created graphic books for A & C Publishers, Owl Magazine, Scholastic Canada, Stone Arch Books, Capstone Books and Orca Books Publishers. They have included the “Max Finder Mystery Series” with a variety of illustrators including Michael Cho, the “Graphic Adventure Series” with illustrator Mike Deas and the “Geeked Out Mystery Series” done by O’Donnell himself.

In 2016 he graduated with a Masters Degree from the Early Childhood Studies program at Ryerson University. In addition to teaching grade 1 students, he is an External Collaborator at Ryerson University’s EDGE Lab exploring the use of video games as learning tools for children and is a founding member of GamingEdus a group of educators using video games to help learners.

WORK:

WRITER:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content novel:

Ramp Rats. Illus: Mike Deas. Orca Books, 2008.

Soccer Sabotage. Illus: Mike Deas. Orca Books,2009.

Wild Ride. Illus: Mike Deas. Orca Books, 2007.

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content story:

Max Finder Mystery: Collected Case Book: v. 1. Illus., Michael Cho. Owlkids Books Inc., 2010.

Max Finder Mystery: Collected Case Book: v. 3. Illus., Michael Cho. Bayard Books Canada Ltd., 2007.

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC:

Content story:

Tank & Fizz: The Case Of The Missing Mage. Illus., Deas Mike. Orca Book Publishers 2017.

Tank & Fizz: The Case Of The Slime Stampede.. Illus., Deas Mike Orca Book Publishers 2015.

SOURCE:

Internet:

“Liam O’Donnel” https://liamodonnell.com/. Accessed5 February 2021.

ODJICK Jay

ODJICK Jay

Born in Rochester New York, U.S.A. grew up in Maniwaki Québec.

This author and producer is best known for his superhero creation “Kagagi” which has appeared first as a mini comic called The Raven then in a graphic novel called Kagagi; The Raven and finally an animated television miniseries on the specialty channel APTN. Jay was the chief writer, lead designer and executive producer. It is among the first Canadian superhero television series to be produced and broadcast.

WORK:

WRITER:

 BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

Moonshot The Indigenous Comics Collection, v.3. Avani/Inhabit Education Books Inc., 2020: “In Our Blood”. Illus., David Cutler: 58-66.

 CO-WRITER & ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

Moonshot. The Indigenous Comics Collection. Alternate History Comics Inc., 2015: “First Hunt.” Co-writ., Joel Odjick: 139-145.

SOURCE:

 Book graphic:

Moonshot. Alternate History Comics Inc., 2015: “Biographies”: 173.

                                                                                                   

 

OBOMSAWIN Diane

OBOMSAWIN Diane

Born in Montréal but raised mostly in France.

In her twenties, she moved permanently to Montréal, where she pursued a career in graphic design, illustration sculpting and editorial cartooning. In her thirties she moved into animation and graphic story telling. She has published two books with Drawn & Quarterly: Kaspar and On Loving Women.

In 2016 the Ottawa International Animation Festival gave her the “Best Animated Short” for J’aime les filles.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story graphic:

Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years …. Drawn & Quarterly, May 2015: “Callisto.” Trans., Helge Dascher: 95-101.

PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story graphic:

Canadian Notes & Queries, 97, Fall 2016: “The North Wing, Episode Sixteen: Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit Novels: Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel, as adapted by Diane Obomsawin”: 32-33.

ILLUSTRATOR:

 PERIODICAL TEXT ANTHOLOGY:

Content essay:

 Saturday Night, 111-2, March 1996: the goods on the tube”. Writ., Mark Kingwell: 69.

SOURCE:

Article book:

BDQ: Essays & Interviews On Quebec Comics. Ed., Andy Brown. BDang/Conundrum, 2017: “The Sacred & The Profane: Obom On Making Comics In Montreal.” Interviewer & Trans., Helge Dasher: 208-214.

 

OAKLEY Mark

OAKLEY Mark

While in Toronto, He created a serial “Thieves and Kings” which first appeared in September 1994.

It has since been published in both periodical and book formats. He moved to Wolfville Nova Scotia where he continued to work on “Thieves and Kings” and in addition created a cartoon strip “Stardrop” for Grapevine, the community newspaper. It has been collected into a book.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content serial & Cover book front:

Thieves & Kings, vol. 5. I Box Publishing, 2004.

Content strip & Cover book front:

Star Drop. I Box Publishing, 2010.

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content serial & Cover:

Thieves & Kings ..: Car., Mark Oakley. I Box Publishing.
1, Sept. 1994.

2, Nov. 1994.

3, Jan. 1995.

4, Mar. 1995.

5, May. 1995.

6, July 1995.

7, Sept. 1995.

8, Nov. 1995.

9, Jan. 1996.

 10, Mar. 1996.

11, May 1996.

12, July 1996.

13, Sept. 1996.

14, Nov. 1996.

15, Jan. 1997.

16, Mar. 1997.

17, May. 1997.

18, July 1997.

19, Sept. 1997.

 20, Nov. 1997.

21, Jan. 1998.

22, May. 1998.

23, Aug. 1998.

24, Oct.r 1998.

25, 1999.

26, 1999.

27, May 1999.

28, July 1999.

29, Oct. 1999.

 30, Jan. 2000.

31, Apr. 2000.

32, July 2000.

33, Oct. 2000.

34, Jan. 2001.

35, May. 2001.

36, Sept. 2001.

37, Jan. 2002.

38 April 2002.

39, July. 2002.

 40, Oct. 2002.

41, Mar. 2003.

DISC AUDIO CD

Artwork (including graphic story):

Thieves and Kings presents Riverwolf. Car. & Illus., Mark Oakley. Comp., Performance & Production Tony Davis. I Box Publishing/Riverwolf.

SOURCE:

Article periodical:

Comics Journal, 184, February 1996: “Thieves & Kings #9 Review.” Writ., Ray Mescallado: 54.

VRIL BOTHERHOOD

VRIL BOTHERHOOD

This Nazi organization and its Canadian opposition the “Allied Enigmas” were both created by the Cloudscape Comics Group and thread through various stories in Epic Canadiana v.1 and Epic Canadiana v.2.

The Vril Brotherhood grew out of a Munich based group of occultists called the “Thule Society”, so named because of their belief in a legendary arctic city called “Thule” was which supposed to be the center of supernatural powers which would make Germany “Master of the World”. The “Thule Society” was disbanded in the 1920’s but was reorganized as the underground “Vril Brotherhood”. “Vril” refers to a mystic power.

Much of the success against the Vril Brotherhood was achieved by Prime Minister Mackenzie King and his “Shadow Cabinet” which was familiar with the supernatural. It was apparently destroyed by the “Allied Enigmas”. But was it?

SOURCE:

Article book:

Epic Canadiana, v.1.Ed., Bevan Thomas. Cloudscape Comics Society, 2013: “Vril Brotherhood.” Writ., Bevan Thomas: 151.

GALLERY:

C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE CARTOON\IMAGE CARTOON V\VRIL BROTHERHOOD, Epic Canadiana 1, 151.jpg                                                                                              Illus., Kamil Ginatulin. Epic Canadiana, v.1. 2013: 151.