THE INVISIBLE COMMANDO

A character created by Leo Bachle for Bell Features, Commando Comics. Lee Pierce was a young Royal Canadian Air Force officer who was able to make himself invisible which made him very effective against the Nazi.

MEDIUM:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content serial:

Commando Comics … no date: “Invisible Commando.” Car., Leo Bachle: ….
4: 26-30.	5: 18-22.	12: 43-48.	14: 26-31.	15: 30-35.

 

Commando Comics … no date: “Invisible Commando.” Car., CAZ:…
16: 33-38	17: 26-31. End

SOURCE:

Article periodical:

Dime Comics, 10, no date: “Pen Portraits.”: 33.

Article newspaper:

Globe and Mail, 23 Oct.1982: Fanfare: “Whatever Happened to …?”: Writ., Peter Harris: 7.

 

THE INTERNATIONAL SALON OF CARTOONS/SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA CARICATURE

In 1975 Jacques Hurtubrise, Pascal Nadon and Pierre Huet organized the first International Comics Festival in Montréal .

Did this evolve into the Salon International de la Caricature/ The Twelfth International Salon of Cartoons under founding Director Robert LaPalme that ran from 1963 to 1987/1988?

PRODUCT:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content editorial cartoon:

Le Douzième Salon International de la Caricature?/ The Twelfth International Salon of Cartoons! Director, Robert LaPalme. Montréal: International Pavilion of Humour Man of His World, Aug. 1975.

Le Quinzième Salon International de la Caricature/ The Fifteenth International Salon of Cartoons. Director, Robert LaPalme. Montréal: International Pavilion of Humour Man of His World, Aug. 1978.

Le 17ème Salon International de la Caricature/ The 17^th International Salon of Cartoons 1980. Director, Robert LaPalme. Montréal: International Pavilion of Humour Man of His World, Aug. 1980.

Le Pavillon International de l’Humour de Montréal présente: / The International Pavilion of Humour of Montréal presents: Schulz Le Cartooniste de l’Année 1978 / Cartoonist of the Year. Director, Robert LaPalme. Montréal: International Pavilion of Humour Man of His World, Oct. 1978.

 

SOURCE:

Article book:

The World Encyclopedia of Comics. Ed., Maurice Horn.: Chelsea House Publishers, 1976: “Hurtubise Jacques (1950 –    ).”  Writ., Maurice Horn: 208.

INTERNATIONAL ROCKETSHIP

A Vancouver based animation company founded by animator Marv Newland. Newland used this company to produce his own films and to produce the films of other independent animators.

SOURCE:

Article book:

Cartoon Capers: The History of Canadian Animators. Writ., Karen Mazurkewich. McArthur & Co., 1999.

Article periodical:

“Take One, Summer 1997:Marv Newland’s International Rocketship: A West Coast Original.” Writ., Mark Freedman:  45.

 

INNES Tom

                          Portfoolio 86: 203.

“Calgary artist compared his job to a soldier shooting the wounded after the battle is over.”                                                                                                                   Writ., Donn Downey Globe & Mail, 21 Oct. 1999: A26.

Tom Innes was born November 30, 1923 in Salem Oregon, but moved to as a child with his family to Calgary. In the 1930’s they moved to Vancouver, where he lived till World War Two when in 1942 he joined the Royal Canadian Navy.

After the won he enrolled in the Calgary School of Technology and Art but after two years he quit and worked in hard rock mining, oil drilling and as a short order cook, etc.

He was employed as a graphic artist in Red Deer when he submitted a sketch to the Herald [Calgary] which bought it for $10 and asked for three cartoons a week on a freelance basis. This led to a full time job. Innes spent the next 32 years as the newspapers editorial cartoonist.

He won a National Newspaper Award in 1982 for a series of cartoons “… that impressed the judges with their trenchant humour and bold quick communication. The judges singled out a cartoon that showed Trudeau sculpting a Constitution tablet with the chips landing on women, a native person and René Lévesque.” (A26)

Despite the onset of arthritis, Innis continued to draw and paint almost to the end of his life. He was succeeded at the Herald by Vance Rodewalt.

He died October 18, 1999 in Bentley near Red Deer.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content editorial cartoon:

The Art of Political Cartooning in Canada/1980. Ed., Steve Bradley. For., Robert LaPalme. Virgo Press, Oct. 1980: 59. 65, 80, 158, 175, 185.

Portfoolio, The Year 86 In Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux. Writ., Charles Gordon. Ludcom Inc. 1986.

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content editorial cartoon & Cover book front:

Innes Cartoons 1977-1980. Calgary Herald, 1980.

SOURCE:

Article book:

The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd.,1979: 239.

Article newspaper:

Globe & Mail, 21 Oct. 1999: “Cartoonist lampooned the famous for 32 years.” Writ., Donn Downey: A26.

GALLERY:

            Innes Cartoons: 1977-1980

Innes Cartoons. 14 Sept. 1977.

 Innes Cartoons: 1977-1980: front cover.

INNES Jack

“I would rather sit in a damp morgue with every slab occupied that be obliged to remain for any lengthy period in a political atmosphere.”                                            Jack Innes. “The Cartoonmen of Canada.”

Jack Innes was born in London Ontario in 1863 and educated in England at the Dufferin Military Academy. He moved West in the early 1880’s to work as a cartographer for a surveying party in the Canadian Rockies.

About this time his first cartoons appeared in the Herald [Calgary]. In the late 1890’s, he moved to Toronto to study art while he continued to draw editorial cartoons this time for the Mail and Empire. He created “a bucolic serial called ‘Redbarn Relates’” for the Saturday edition of that publication. He moved back out west and honed his skills as a writer, founding several publications.

By 1904 he was in the South African War where served with distinction in the second Canadian Mounted Rifles. At the same time he covered the war as a correspondent for the Mail and Empire. Also in 1904, he was elected to membership in the Ontario Society of Artists.

In 1907 he was working as a staff artist for the Hearst Corporation chain in New York City and directed a New York choir. By 1913, he was back in Vancouver drawing cartoons for the Vancouver Sun. About this time he drew a notable set of naval cartoons. In 1915 he held his first one show of paintings.

He left cartooning and began painting the pioneer and nomadic life of the Canadian west in which he developed a national reputation, becoming known as “The Painter of the Canadian West”. . He died in Vancouver in 1941.

SOURCE:

Article book:

Encyclopedia Canadiana, v. 2. The Canadiana Co., 1957: “Cartoons.” Wm. Colgate: 270.

The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1979: 83, 239.

Article periodical:

Maclean’s Magazine, Mar. 1914: “The Cartoonmen of Canada.” Writ., John Edgecumbe Staley: 44.

GALLERY:

 

 Taken from the Vancouver Sun it appears in The Hecklers: 84.

INMAN Donald

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

Potlatch presents The 1980 Comics Annual. Ed., Ian Carr. Potlatch Publications, 1979: “The Legend of the Black Fly …White Tomahawk”: 91.

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content biography graphic:

Canadian Children’s Annual, 1980. Ed., Robert F. Neilson. Art Dir., Mary Tach. Potlatch Publications 1979: “Grant McConachie”: 102-105.

ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK TEXT &GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:                                                                          All published by Potlatch Publications.

Content story:

Canadian Children’s Annual, 1980. Ed., R. F. Neilson. Art Dir., M. Tach. 1979:                             “Boomtails.” Writ., Dorothy Blunden: 18-19.                                                                       “The Elusive Secret of Oak Island.” Writ., Jean Booker: 96.

Potlatch presents The 1980 Comics Annual. 1979: “Return of the Magician.” Writ. & Layout, Arn Saba. Assist., Lois Atkinson: 7-14.

INHERIT THE MIRTH

A humourous cartoon panel created by Cuyler Black. It appeared in the United Church. Observer magazine, from circa 2010 to November 2016.

GALLERY:

Observer, Sept. 2010: 8.

Observer, July, Aug. 2011: 8. Observer, Oct. 2012:8.

  Observer, Nov. 2013: 8. Observer, Jan. 2014: 8.

 

INFINITE MAN

Created by Mark Shainblum and Gabriel Morrissette but according to Shainblum mostly by Morrissette.

MEDIUM:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content story:

Peter Hsu’s Quadrant, 1-2, no date (probably 1984: “Infinite Man: The Love of a Good Woman.” Plot & Pen., Gabrielle Morrissette. Writ., Mark Shainblum. In. & Let., Ron Kasman.

SOURCE:

Article periodical:

Quadrant, 1-1, no date: “Mark Shainblum.”.

THE INCREDIBLE CONDUIT

“The Incredible Conduit” was created by Tony Gray and launched as a cartoon strip for the CanWest chain of newspapers in August 2009. In 2010 it was contracted out to Legacy Comics Publishing in 2010 to be published in comic book format.

It follows the adventures of university student, Raymond Cole who developed the ability to absorb then project all forms of energy. Also featured is Maria Pasqua, an engineering genius who developed the suit to assist Cole in controlling his powers. Raymond and Maria strive to find their lab partner who went missing during the blast that gave Raymond his powers.

MEDIUM:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content serial & Cover front, illus., Tony Grey:

The Incredible Conduit. 2, May 2011. Car.., Tony Gray: 1-2 & 9-22. Car., Tony Gray & Jolie Inthavong: 3-8. Col., Tony Grey.

SOURCE:

Internet:

“Tony Gray (comics).” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p. n.d. Web. 18 Feb. 2013.     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Gray_(comics).

IÑAKI Jon

A Saskatchewan cartoonist.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

Enough space for everyone else. Ed., J.N. Monk & L. Black. Bedside Press, 2017: “Turtles”: 43-52.

SOURCE:

Article book:

Enough space for everyone else. 2017: “Biographies: Jon Iñaki”: 215.