VAUGHAN-JAMES M.

VAUGHAN-JAMES Martin

$C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE OF PERSON\V\VAUGHN-JAMES, Martin, The Cage, 1975, fc.jpg$ Photo by Noddy McCoy. The Cage, 1975: Dust jacket.

Born 5 December 1943 in Bristol, England, and lived in Australia for much of his youth he came to Toronto in 1969. Here he drew occasional illustrations and editorial cartoons for the magazine Saturday Night, and The Toronto Star. He is remembered for the four publications listed below which are consider seminal pioneering works in the development of the graphic novel.

The Cage was begun in Toronto in 1972 with the bulk of it done during 1972 to 1973 while Martin and his wife Noddy were living in Paris. It was completed in Toronto in February 1974. The ruins in Yucatan and central Mexico inspired parts of this book.

He moved to Belgium where he pursued a career as a fine arts painter. He also wrote two novels Night Train (1989) and Tomb of Zwaab (1991).

He died 3 July 2009.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

PERIODICAL TEXT ATHOLOGY:

Content strip cartoon:

The Canadian Forum, LII-625, February 1973: 30.

Saturday Night …

… October 1970: 30.

… February 1971: 24.

ILLUSTRATOR:

PERIODICAL TEXT:

Content essay:

The Canadian Forum, April 1976: “Cultural Nationalism … ”. Writ., D. Duffy: 10. “Artist as Double Agent”. Writ., Vera Frenkel: 40.

WRITER & ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Elephant. New Press, 1970.

The Cage. Coach House Press, 1975. An edition of 1500 copies.

The Park. Coach House Press, 1972.

The Projector. Coach House Press, 1971.

VISUAL ARTIST:

PERIODICAL TEXT:

Content drawing:

The Canadian Forum, L-600, January 1971: 343.

SOURCE:

Article book:

The Cage. Car., Martin Vaugh-James. Coach House Press, 1975. Back page & dust jacket.

The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd.,1979: 252.

GALLERY:

$C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE BY CARTOONIST\V\VAUGHN-JAMES Martin, Elephant, 1970, fc.jpg$ Elephant, 1970: Front cover.

$C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE BY CARTOONIST\V\VAUGHN-JAMES Martin, The Projector, 1971, fc..jpg$ The Projector, 1971: Front cover.

$C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE BY CARTOONIST\V\VAUGHN-JAMES Martin, The Park, 1972, fc.jpg$ The Park, 1972: Front cover.

$C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE BY CARTOONIST\V\VAUGHN-JAMES Martin The Cage, 1975, fc.jpg$ The Cage, 1975: Front cover.

A black and white drawing of a cartoon Description automatically generated The Canadian Forum, January 1971: 343.

A comic strip of two people Description automatically generated The Canadian Forum, February 1973: 30.

A person holding a pile of frames Description automatically generated with medium confidence The Canadian Forum, April 1976: 10.

VARLEY Fredrick

VARLEY Fredrick Horsman

Member of the Group of Seven.

WORK:

ILLUSTRATOR:

PERIODICAL TEXT ANTHOLOGY

Content poetry:

Macleans, Dec. 1917:“The Shape at the Wheel.” Writ., Robert W. Service: 31.

GALLERY:

$C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE BY CARTOONIST\V\Varley F. H. Maclean's, Dec. 1917, 31.jpg$ Macleans, Dec. 1917: 31.

Van WOERKOM Fons

Van WOERKOM Fons

Born 1943, in Holland.

He graduated from the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht Holland after studying painting for eight years.

He moved to Toronto in 1968 and drew cartoons for the Toronto Star over the next three years. A caricature of Israel’s Moshe Dayan won him the Grand Prize for Political Cartooning at the International Salon of Caricature and Cartooning.

In 1971 he moved to New York where he works for the New York Times.

SOURCE:

Book text:

The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1979: 236.

VAN LEEUWEN Ron

VAN LEEUWEN Ron

Owner of the Silver Snail Comics retail outlet located on Queen Street West, Toronto and Andromeda Publications, in the last decades of the 20^th century, he also dabbled in writing. He now lives in Northern Ontario.

WORK:

WRITER:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content serial:

“The Devil’s Nest.” Illus., Franc Reyes. Let., George Olshevsky. Arik Khan, 1-2, June 1978: 1-32.

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

Potlatch presents The 1980 Comics Annual. Ed., Ian Carr. Potlatch Publications, 1979: “Little Feller.”Illus., Franc Reyes:126.

Van KAMPEN Vlasta

Van KAMPEN Vlasta

This Toronto based, internationally acclaimed artist has won the Governor General’s Award for illustration for her book ABC/123 The Canadian Alphabet and Counting Book. Another book Orchestranimals sold 100,000 copies. She was author/illustrator of the critically acclaimed Beetle Bedlam.

WORK:

ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK TEXT:

Cover dust jacket:

The Street. Writ., Mordecai Richler. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1969.

Content novel:

French Kiss. Writ., Eric Koch. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1969.

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC

Content story & Cover dust jacket:

The Last Straw. Writ., Fredrick H. Thury. Key Porter Books Ltd., 1998. Adapted from the musical version sung by the Toronto Children’s Chorus for Chritstmas.

SOURCE:

Article book:

The Last Straw. Writ., Fredrick H. Thury. Illus., Vlasta van Kampen. Key Porter Books Ltd., 1998: Dust jacket.

Van Der LINDE Henry

Van Der LINDE Henry

WORK:

ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK TEXT:

Cover dust jacket:

Benny Cooperman Mystery: Getting Away with Murder. Writ., Howard Engel. Viking/Penguin Books Canada Ltd., 1995.

Van CAMP Richard

Van CAMP Richard

Originally from Fort Smith North West Territories.

He graduated from the En”owkin International School of Writing, earned a BFA in Writing from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, and a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from University of British Columbia. He wrote for the CBC television series “North of 60” (1992-1998) for two months under the Writer Internship Program then remained as script and culture consultant for four seasons. He has taught creative writing at University of British Columbia, Creative Writing and Story Telling at the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, and was Writer in Residence at the University of Alberta (2011 & 2012) and Grant McEwen University (2013 & 2014), both in Edmonton.

In addition to those listed below, he has written the graphic novel Blue Raven illustrated by Scott B. Henderson. In addition he has written three what can be best described as graphic instruction or information booklets, Path Of The Warrior (illus., Steve Sanderson), Kiss Me Deadly (illus., Chris Auchter), and Spirit (illus., Emily Brown).

He has written four collections of text short stories: Angel Wing Splash Pattern, The Moon of Letting Go, Godless But Loyal To Heaven and Night Moves.

His text novel The Lesser Blessed, was made into a feature film, which was presented in September 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival. He has published a second novel Whistle which continues some of the themes and follows some of the characters of The Lesser Blessed.

He has also written two children’s books, with George Littlechild. His baby book Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for New Borns was the official selection of the Books for BC Babies program and was given to all new born BC babies in 2008.

He has received the Canadian Author’s Association/Air Canada Award for most promising new author, and the Jugendileraturpeis Award the highest German award given for a translation among other awards for The Lesser Blessed translated by Ulrich Plezdorf. .

WORK:

WRITER:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content novel:

A Blanket of Butterflies. Illus., Scott B. Henderson. HighWater Press/Portage & Main Press, 2015.

Three Feathers. Illus., Krystal Mateus. HighWater Press/Portage & Main Press, 2015..

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

Moonshot: the Indigenous Comics Collection. Ed., Hope Nicholson. Alternate History Comics Inc., 2015: “Tlicho Nàowo.” Illus., Nicholas Burns: 122-130.

Moonshot: the Indigenous Comics Collection, v. 2. Ed., Hope Nicholson. 2017: “The Magic Of Wolverines.” Illus., Scott Henderson: 78-81. “Water Spirits.” Illus., Haiwei Hou: 95-103.

Moonshot The Indigenous Comics Collection, v.3. Ed., Elizabeth LaPensée & Michael Sheyahshe. Avani/Inhabit Education Books Inc., 2020: “Sky People”. Illus., Kyle Charles: 89-97.

SOURCE:

Book graphic:

A Blanket of Butterflies. 2015: Author profile. Back cover.

Moonshot. the Indigenous Comics Collection, 2015: “Biographies”: 173.

Internet:

“Richard VanCamp.” www.richardvancamp.com Accessed 22 April 2018.

van BRUGGEN Anthony

van BRUGGEN Anthony

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Born 12 July 1961. He was active in the Toronto animation, cartoon and toy design industry for 35 years.

He worked on the Nelvana produced films Care Bears II: A New Generation (1986) and Care Bears: Adventure In Wonderland (1987). He teamed up with the Radio comedy team the Frantics to cartoon “Mr. Canoehead” which appeared in Canadian Comics Cavalcade, 1-1, Summer 1986. He partnered with John Van Bruggen to do two stories for Vortex in 1983 and 1984 and with Ty Templeton for two “Plasma Monkey” stories in Ty’s periodical Stig’s Inferno.

He worked as a toy designer at Thinkway Toys a manufacturing company in Markham Ontario and helped create the original Toy Story toys in 1995.

WORK:

ILLUSTRATOR:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content advertisement :

Stig’s Inferno, 6, January 1987: Advertisement: 27. Published by Eclipse Comics Inc. Black & white.

Stig’s Inferno, 7 January 1988: “Lo the Plasma Monkey Returneth”. Writ., Ty Templeton. Co-in., Ty & Jack: 20-25.

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Cover wrap around::

Canadian Comics Cavalcade, 1-1, Summer 1986: Col., Paul Rivoche..

Content:

Portrait:

Pork Knight 1-1, no date: No title. Inside back cover.

Story:

Canadian Comics Cavalcade, 1-1, 1986: “Mr. Canoehead: The Mystery of the Disappearing Orphanage.” Writ., The Frantics. Let., Stig Alighieri: 1-5. The Frantics were a CBC radio comedy team who among other skits created “Mr. Canoehead

CO-ILLUSTRATOR:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Cover front:

Pork Knight 1-1, no date: Co-illus., Rob Walton.

Content portrait:

Wordsmith, 8, Feb. 1987: “Pulp Portrait: Doc. Savage.” Co-illus., Alex Liebregts: 31.

TEAM:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content story:

Vortex, 1-3, July 1983: “Swine Song”. Writ. & Pen., John Van Bruggen. Finished Art., Anthony van Bruggen. Let., Thom Grignon: 2-10.

Vortex, 1-6, March 1984: “The Big Bad Steppenwolf & The Tree Little Pigs In One”. Plot, Dialogue, Ink, John Van Bruggen. Layout, Pencils, Tone, Anthony Van Bruggen. Title design, Let., Thom Grignon: 18-32.

SOURCE:

Article newspaper:

Globe & Mail, 26 May 2010: Two confirmed dead after plane hits toy factory.” Caroline Alphonso.

Internet:

https://toystorymerchandise.fandom.com/wiki/Anthony_Van_Bruggen Accessed Feb. 30 2025.

GALLERY:

A comic book page with cartoon characters AI-generated content may be incorrect. Stig’s Inferno, 6, January 1987: 27.