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GIRERD Jean-Pierre

GIRERD Jean-Pierre

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I don’t care about the details in the drawing. I think the most important thing is to give a strong idea and rapidly. The readers of a newspaper are always in a hurry.”  The Hecklers, 188.

Born 1931 in Algeria, where he studied art at l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts for five years. In 1956 he was hired as a political caricaturist at the Journal d,Alge. He found that there one had to support the editorial line. Cartoons critical of de Gaulle were often rejected.

In 1961, he moved to the U.S.A. where he worked as an editorial cartoonist and illustrator for the Star [Minneapolis]. Unhappy in the U.S.A. he moved to Paris France. Visiting Montréal in 1964, he decided to stay and had secured a job before his visit was over. He worked for the Métro Express until it ceased operations.

“At first it wasn’t easy. He found the Canadian scene rather confusing, not always knowing the difference between federal and provincial politics. Eventually he turned this to his advantage, as he could stand back and approach all subjects in an equally cynical and teasing manner.” [Hecklers 237]

After the Métro he freelanced for Le Petit Journal, Le Maclean, and Perspectives. He joined La Presse [Montréal] as editorial cartoonist after Roland Berthiaume (Berthio) left. He sometimes produced as many as a dozen cartoons a week for the paper. He often used a dog called “Chien” to make secondary comments in his cartoons.

He discovered that in the Québec of the 1960’s, pressure to conform politically came not only from editors and newspaper owners but from other journalists as well. During the 1970 October Crisis, his opposition to kidnapping and violence placed him in opposition to many other journalists and intellectuals. [189]

In 1985, he was named to the Order of Canada and he won the Grand Prix at Le Salon International de la Caricature?/ The International Salon of Cartoons in Montreal.

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: 120, 123, 127, 157, 198, 200, 201, 205.

Caricature . Cartoons Canada. Ed., Terry Mosher. Linda Leith Publishing, 2012: 18.

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 6: The Year in Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Charles Gordon. Macmillan of Canada, 1990.

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content editorial cartoon & Cover book front & back:

Lévesque de 76 à 85. Les Éditions La Presse Ltée., 1985.

Le meilleure de Girerd … 1986. Les Éditions La Presse Ltée., 1986.

Monsieur Le Maire… de 68 à 86. Les Éditions La Presse Ltée., 1986.

Mort au Travail! Les Éditions La Presse Ltée., 1980.

La question! … Quelle question! Les Éditions La Presse Ltée., 1979.

Son Honneur. Les Éditions La Presse Ltée., 1986.

ILLUSTRATOR:

Content history & Cover dust jacket front & back:

Hôpital Notre-Dame 1880-1980. Montréal: Ateliers des Sourds Montréal (1978) Inc. 1er trimester 1980.

SOURCE:

Article book:

Portfoolio, The Year 85 In Canadian Caricature. 1985: “Jean-Pierre Girard”: 204.

Book text:

The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., P. Desbarates & T. Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1979: 188-189, 237.

GALLERY:

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GIRARD Philippe

GIRARD Philippe

He was born in Québec City in 1971. At age 8 years, he had his first cartoon story published in a children’s magazine. He has worked for various magazines and newspapers, published nine graphic books and a series of novels for children. The newspaper La Presse (Montréal) published for one year “Béatrice” a cartoon serial. It later appeared in the weekly magazine Spirou.

He received a Bédéis Causa Award in 2001 for Jim Le Malingre: Avatars Atavviques as well as the Bédélys Québec Award. In 2008 he won a Joe Shuster Award for writer for Danger Public.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content memoir & Cover book front & back:

Ruts & Gullies: Nine Days in Saint Petersburg. Trans. Kerryann Cochrane. BDANG – Conundrum Press, 2010. First published as Les Ravins by Mecanique Generale.

Killing Velazquez. Trans. Kerryann Cochrane. Greenwich: BDANG – Conundrum Press, 2011. First published as Tuez Vélasquez, Les Éditions Glénat Québec Inc., 2009.

Content history & Cover book front & back:

Leonard Cohen On A Wire, Trans., Helge Dascher & Karen Houle. Drawn & Quarterly, January 2022. First published by Casterman 2021.

SOURCE:

Article book:

Ruts & Gullies: Nine Days in Saint Petersburg. 2010 :“Bio. on back cover.”

GIRARD Pascal

GIRARD Pascal

Born 1981 in Jonquière Québec.

This Montréaler is the cartoonist of Nicolas, Bigfoot, Reunion and Petty Theft. He won the 2011 Doug Wright Best Book Award for Bigfoot.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content novel & Cover book front:

Bigfoot. Drawn & Quarterly, 2011.

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years …. Drawn & Quarterly, May 2015: “The osteopath”: 604-611.

PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story graphic:

Canadian Notes & Queries, 98, Winter 2017: “The North Wing, Episode 18: Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit Graphic Novels: Mordecai Richler’s The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz as adapted by Pascal Girard”: 32-33.

Descant, 164, Spring 2014: “Untitled”: 160-167.

ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content

Memoir:

Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years …. Drawn & Quarterly, May 2015: “I Can’t In Good Conscience Hire You.” Writ., Peggy Burns reminiscing: 81-87.

Portrait:

Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years …. Drawn & Quarterly, May 2015: “Librairie Drawn & Quarterly”: 108-109.

SOURCE:

Article periodical:

Descant, 164, Spring 2014: 251.

GILLIS Kevin

GILLIS Kevin

SOURCE:

Article periodical:

Leisure Ways, 15, Sept. 1986: “A Pride of Raccoons.” Writ., Jeremy Ferguson..

GIFFORD Rossi

GIFFORD Rossi

Born in Scotland.

She graduated from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design which is part of the University of Dundee in Scotland

She conceived the ”Spirit Leaves” characters and the story while working at various animation studios and the Royal Academy of Illustration and Design (R.A.I.D.) in Toronto in 2013. In January 2014, she began development of the concept at R.A.I.D. In December 2015, the first issue of Spirit Leaves was published.

She designed the short animated film Curse of Clara: A Holiday Tale which aired on CBC. She is the lead character designer for Nickelodeon’s Welcome To The Wayne.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content serial:

Spirit Leaves … : Chapterhouse Comics “
1, December.2015. 2, March 2016. 3, July 2016.

ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

Moonshot: the Indigenous Comics Collection, v. 2. Ed., Hope Nicholson. 2017: “Worst Bargain In Town.” Writ., Darcy Little Badger: 33-43.

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Cover front:

Front: Spirit Leaves, Chapterhouse Comics.
1, December2015: Cover B: 2, March 2016. 3, July 2016: Cover A:

SOURCE:

Article book:

Moonshot: the Indigenous Comics Collection, v. 2. 2017: “Biographies”: 152.

GALLERY

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GILPIN Les

GILPIN Edwin Leslie “Les”

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Born 3 May 1906, in Holywood, Ireland and migrated with his family to Canada in December 1923. At the time he married 14 November 1927, he gave his occupation as salesman.

Very little is known about Les Gilpin and almost nothing about his development as a cartoonist. We know that in 1927 when he married his occupation was salesman.

From his cartoons in the late 1940 and early 1941 issues of Air Force Review magazine we see that he was an accomplished cartoonist before he arrived at Anglo-American. According to Ed Furness, he was already working there when Ed arrived.

He created “Commander Steel”, and “The Crusaders” He illustrated “Sooper Dooper” which Jack Calder wrote but it is evident from the strip “Joe” shown below in an Air Force Review issue that he had created the character before he came to Anglo-American.

According to Ed Furness, he was apparently an alcoholic and he eventually went or was sent to Fawcett in New York to work with C.C. Beck on “Captain Marvel”. Betty Mercer, however, remembered he was with the company till the end and that it was he who told them that they had all been released from the company. Nothing is known of what happened to him after he went to Fawcett.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

 PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

 Content serial: 

 Grand Slam Comics…: “The Crusaders…” Anglo-American Publishing Co. Ltd. Black & white.
1-4, March 1942: “… In Libya”: 2-27.

 

 1-5, April 1942: 3-22. 1-6, May 1942: 3-22.

For more about the “Crusaders” see Co-cartoonist below.

ILLUSTRATOR:

 PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

 Content serial:

 According to Ed Furness, Jack Calder (Jay McKellar) wrote “Sooper Dooper” and Les Gilpin illustrated it. The citations on the stories made no such distinction.

3 Aces Comics…: “Sooper Dooper, Mighty Man Of Yesterday…”, Contributors, Jay McKellar & Les Gilpin. Anglo-American Publishing Co. Ltd. Black & white.
1-2, January/February 1942: “ Pitts His Wits Against Butch The Bat”: 53-63.

1-3, March 1942. No story.

1-5, May 1942. No story.

1-6, June 1942: 38-47.

1-8, September, 1942: 52-61.

1-9, October 1942: “Axes The Axis”: 42-51.

2-1, February 1943: 53-62.

2-2, March 1943: 53-62.

2-3, April 1943: “ The Great McCluskey Shows”: 53-62.

2-4, May 1943: 46-55.

3-3, April 1944: 48-47

3-6, July 1944: “ … and the Insanitary Professor Phoolizh”: 39-46.

3-8, September 1944: 43-47.

Sooper Dooper disappeared from Three Aces.

CO-CARTOONIST:

 PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

 Content serial : 

Grand Slam Comics… “The Crusaders…” Co-car., Ed Furness.  Anglo-American Publishing Co. Ltd. Black & white .
2-3, February 1943: 32-41.

2-4, March 1943: 31-40.

April 1943: 31-40.

2-7, June 1943:  32-41.

  2-8, July 1943: “… and the Dream Of Baron Todt!”: 31-40.

3-1, December 1943: No story.

3-2, January 1944: No story.

 

SOURCE:

We have the research of Ivan Kocmarek author of Heroes of the Home Front, into the genealogical records for the information about Les’ date and place of birth, his immigration to Canada and his marriage. There is some uncertainty about his birth being 3 May, but the 1906 is firm.

The source of the images from the aviation magazines was Jason Vanderhill of Vancouver. He is a graduate of Ryerson University and an avid historian and collector of comics, local and aviation history. He is a member of the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society and a member and V.P. of the Fraser Valley Antiques and Collectibles Club. He has curated the online art project Illustrated Vancouver for the past ten years.

Interview:

Ed Furness by Robert MacMillan

Correspondence:

Email 1 May 2016, to Ivan Kocmarek from Billy Neill grandson to Betty Mercer quoting his mother.

Email 28 Sept. 2016, to Robert MacMillan, from Billy Neill grandson to Betty Mercer quoting his

mother.

GALLERY:

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Air Force Review, December 1940.

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Air Force Review, January 1941: 13.

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Air Force Review, January 1941: 20.

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Air Force Review, February1941: 5.

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Air Force Review, February1941: 17.

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“Joe” Air Force Review, February 1941 24-25 or January 1941: 15-16.

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Air Force Review, February1941: 31.

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Air Force Review, February1941: 33.

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Air Force Review, February1941: 34.

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Magazine unknown probably Air Force Review.

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Magazine unknown probably Air Force Review.

GILMORE Jason

GILMORE Jason

WORK:

CO-WRITER:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content novel:

The Next Day. Co-writ., Paul Peterson. Illus. John Porcellino. Pop Sandbox Inc., 2011.

 

 

GILLIGAN Paul

GILLIGAN Paul

He studied at Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville, and at the Film Institute in Ottawa. While working at the Ottawa Citizen in 1990 he won a National Newspaper Award for design.

He is principally known for his creation “Pooch Café.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content strip cartoon & Cover book front & back:

Pooch Café: All Dogs Naturally Know How To Swim. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003.

ILLUSTRATOR:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content landscape:

Canadian Comics Cavalcade, 1-1, Summer 1986: “Island of Tempered Fantasies”: 25.

GIFFORD Rossi

GIFFORD Rossi

Born in Scotland.

She graduated from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design which is part of the University of Dundee in Scotland

.She conceived the ”Spirit Leaves” characters and the story while working at various animation studios and the Royal Academy of Illustration and Design (R.A.I.D.) in Toronto in 2013. In January 2014, she began development of the concept at R.A.I.D. In December 2015, the first issue of Spirit Leaves was published.

She designed the short animated film Curse of Clara: A Holiday Tale which aired on CBC. She is the lead character designer for Nickolodeon’s Welcome To The Wayne.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content:

Serial:

“Spirit Leaves.”. Spirit Leaves … Chapterhouse Comics.
1, December.2015. 2, March 2016. 3, July 2016.

ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content:

Story:

“Worst Bargain In Town.” Writ., Darcy Little Badger. Moonshot: the Indigenous Comics Collection, vol. 2. Ed., Hope Nicholson. 2017: 33-43.

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Cover:

Front: Spirit Leaves, Chapterhouse Comics.
Cover B: 1, December 2015. 2, March 2016. Cover A: 3, July 2016.

SOURCE:

Book graphic;

“Biographies.” Moonshot: the Indigenous Comics Collection, vol. 2. Alternate History Comics Inc., 2017: 152.

GALLERY

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Spirit Leaves, 3, July 2015: Front cover.

 

GIBSON Richard

GIBSON Richard

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Portfoolio, The Year 87 In Canadian Caricature: 201.

Born 1934 in Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.

About 1975 he began doing editorial and situational cartoons for the Toronto Sun. Through Canada-Wide Feature Services syndicate his cartoons appeared in newspapers across Canada and in the U.S.A. He did a cartoon a week for the Brampton Guardian under the pseudonym “Teasdale”.

He was a member of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists and an original member of the Toronto Cartoonists Society.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content:

Cartoon editorial:

The Art of Political Cartooning in Canada/1980. Ed., Steve Bradley. For., Robert LaPalme. Virgo Press, Oct. 1980: 48, 217.

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.

ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK TEXT:

Content sports :

It Happened In Hockey. Writ., Brian McFarlane. Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd., 1991.

 Content sports & Cover book:

That’s Life. Writ., Max Haines. Toronto Sun Corp., 1986.

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC:

Content activity & Cover book front & back*: 

Mystery Challenge …:  Writ., Max Haines. Wasn’t That A Party Inc: …
vol. 1: 1990. vol. 2: 1992 vol.3: 1992.

Cover book front & back*:

Mystery Challenge, v. 4: Writ., Max Haines. Wasn’t That A Party Inc. 1992.

*All covers are the same.

GALLERY:

C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE BY CARTOONIST\G\GIBSON Dick, Portfoolio 85, 204.jpg Portfoolio, The Year 85 In Canadian Caricature: 204.

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