GANES Orville
This cartoonist also owned Ganes Productions.
WORK:
CARTOONIST:
BOOK TEXT:
Content opinion political & Cover book front:
The National Dilemma and The Way Out. Writ., Winnett Boyd & Kenneth McDonald. BMG Publishing Ltd., 1975. Contains cartoons by Orville Ganes.
GALLERY:
The National Dilemma and The Way Out, 1975: Front cover.
GALLANT Gregory (SETH) (Nom de plume “Seth.”)
Circa 1990’s. It’s A Great Life If You Don’t Weaken.
‘My life as an artist is a life spent in the studio and, for me, the purpose of the studio is not work but play. Not play in the sense of how children play – you cannot recapture that sort of experience as an adult – but play in the form of imaginative exploration. In other words, embracing stray notions and having the confidence to follow those notions down whatever meandering path they lead. Sometimes this process leads to finished works—comic stories or decorative objects. Often it leads nowhere or ends up merely as busy-work – sketchbook drawings or jumbles of notes. Occasionally this ‘busy-work’ ends up being the work itself—the process becoming the point. In some ways my studio life today isn’t all that different from how I operated as a child. The inspirations are much the same—comic books, toys, models—and the materials themselves, too—cardboard, scissors, poster paint and glue. This exhibition documents my life in the studio. The works shown here are the physical artifacts of drifting time spent in solitude. For me, the studio is a refuge, a playroom, a hiding place, a bubble. A tiny, closed world. Gregory Gallant, from the introduction to Seth: A Life, All Play, an exhibit Gallery of Guelph, Sept. 12 to Dec. 15, 2019.
“I think that if there’s any hope of raising the medium, you have to think of yourself as an artist and the story has to have literary concerns. You’ve really got to try to consciously craft something that has real meaning.” Globe and Mail 11 Sept.1993: C1.
Gallant earns a living as a illustrator for publications such as Saturday Night, Toronto Life and The Washington Post. He remarked to journalist Cathal Kelly, “The comic [Palookaville] doesn’t buy me anything. Well maybe a hamburger.”
He was part of a group which included his two friends Chester Brown and Joe Matt which mined the autobiographical cartoon genre so prevalent in the early 1990’s. “It’s a reaction against what’s always gone on in comics, which is way too much fantasy. So much fantasy that as a sheer reaction to get away from it , you want to [tell] the most real thing [you] knew, which was you own life.” [C1] Although the comic books of these three sold in small quantities per issue (3000 – 7000), they attracted mail from across North America, Europe and Asia.
He was one of the illustrators on Dean Motter’s Mr. X.
Gallant had an idea for a comic he named Palookaville. Oliveros owner of Drawn and Quarterly decided to publish it. Gallant became one of the company’s core artists. Palookaville, is in reality Toronto, and tells slice of life stories based on the artist’s own experiences. The first issue dealt with Gallant being mistaken for a homosexual and beaten up in a Toronto subway station in the mid 1980’s. It has been described as wielding the great emotional power of a good short story.
While the three friends Gallant, Brown and Matt have all exploited the autobiographical vein of cartoon stories to the maximum all three in 1993 were wanting to move away from it into fiction and history.
In 1996 Oliveros and the Drawn and Quarterly artists were featured guests at the Haarlem Comics Festival in the Netherlands in Europe.
He won the 2005 Doug Wright Award Best Book for Clyde Fans Book 1 and the 2010 Doug Wright Best Book Award for George Sprott (1894-1975).
He is the cover illustrator, author of “Landscape” and driving force behind The North Wing Project: all for Canadian Notes and Queries magazine.
Luc Chamberland’s animated feature Seth’s Dominion won an Ottawa International Animation Festive Best Feature Award in 2014.
WORK:
CARTOONIST:
BOOK GRAPHIC: (Published by Drawn & Quarterly unless otherwise noted)
Content novel & Cover as described:
Bannock Beans and Black Tea, January 2004. Illustrated cover book front & back
Clyde Fans, Book,1, March 2004. Illustrated cover book front & dust jacket front & back + endpapers.
Clyde Fans: A Picture Novel. April 2019. Illustrated cover book wrap around. This boxed edition brings together all of the elements of the Clyde Fans story that appeared in different publications.
George Sprott 1894 – 1975, May 2009. Illustrated cover book front & back
The G.N.B. DOUBLE C. September 2011. Illustrated cover book front & back
Wimbledoon Green, October 2005. Illustrated cover book front & back
BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION: (Published by Drawn & Quarterly unless otherwise noted)
Content story & Cover as described:
It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken, Sept. 1996. Illustrated cover book front & dust jacket + endpapers
Palookaville 20. September 2010. Contains: “Clyde Fans”, pt. 4, 1975. Plus …. Illustrated cover book front & back.
Palookaville 21. September 2013. Contains: “Clyde Fans”, pt. 4 continued. Plus…. Illustrated cover book front & back.
Palookaville, 22. April 2015. Contains: “Clyde Fans”, pt. 4, 1975. Plus…. Illustrated cover book front & dust jacket + endpapers
Palookaville 23. July 2017. Contains: “Clyde Fans”, pt.5, 1957. Plus…. Illustrated cover book front & back.
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY: (Published by Drawn & Quarterly unless otherwise noted)
Content :
Cartoon jam:
| Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years. Drawn & Quarterly, May 2015. |
| “The Lucky Bastard”: 635. A jam session: Panels 1, 4, 7, by Joe Matt; panels 2, 5, 8, by Chester Brown; panels 3, 6, 9, by Gregory Gallant (Seth).
“50 Years down the road”: 750. Previously appeared in Comics Journal, 162, October 1993: 53. Self portraits by Joe Matt, Chester Brown, Gregory Gallant (Seth). See GALLERY below. |
Story:
| Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years. Drawn & Quarterly, May 2015. | |
| “Why”: 250-251. | “Beaches (an excerpt)”:261-272. |
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:
Content story:
Mister X, 6, Dec.1985: “Tales From Somnopolis.” Vortex Comics.
PERIODICAL TEXT ANTHOLOGY:
Content vignettes of fictional history graphic:
| Canadian Notes & Queries,…. |
|
80, Summer/Fall 2010: Prologue “Selections From The North Wing”: 61. 82, Spring/Summer 2011: “Jocko The Little Scotsman”: 40-45. 86, Winter 2012: “From The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists”: 63. |
Walrus, Jan./Feb. 2015 to Dec. 2015: “Owen More Episode 1 of 10 Prologue to 10 of 10 Epilogue.”
NEWSPAPER:
Content story graphic:
Globe & Mail, 29 July 2017: “Hazel”: R8-R9.
CARTOONIST, ILLUSTRATOR & MODELER:
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC:
Content folio:
Seth’s Dominion. Drawn & Quarterly/National Film Board, Oct. 2016: “A Gallery of Art Work By The Cartoonist.”
Uninked: paintings, sculpture and graphic work by five contemporary cartoonists. Phoenix Art Museum, Catalogue for exhibit April 21st – August 19th 2007 “Seth.” Curator & Ed., Chris Ware.
ILLUSTRATOR:
DISC AUDIO CD:
Artwork:
A Story-Gram From Vinyl Cafe Inc.. Writ., Stuart McLean. Vinyl Café Productions, 2004. VCD0006.
BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY: (Published by Drawn & Quarterly unless otherwise noted)
Content folio:
Drawn & Quarterly, v. 3, May 2000: “Fourteen Sketches: Selected drawings from the late 20th Century – Compiled from Seth’s Sketchbook No. 4 : 107-121.
BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:
Content folio & Cover book front:
Vernacular Drawings. Drawn & Quarterly, Sept. 2001.
BOOK TEXT:
Content dictionary humour & Cover book front:
The Wage Slave’s Glossary. Writ., Joshua Glenn & Mark Kingwell. Biblioasis, 2011.
Content history & Cover book front & back:
Christmas Days. Writ., Derek McCormack. House of Anansi Press Inc. 2005.
Content novel & Cover dust jacket front & back:
“Who Could That Be At This Hour?” HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., Oct. 2012.
Content story & Cover book front & back:
| The Haunted Book Shelf Series, …. Writ., …. Biblioasis, …. | |
| 2015:
One Who Saw. A.M. Burrage. The Signalman. Charles Dickens. 2016: Afterward. Edith Wharton. The Crown Derby Plate. Marjorie Bowen. The Diary of Mr. Poynter. M.R. James. 2017: The Empty House. Algernon Blackwood. How Fear Departed The Long Gallery. E. F. Benson.. The Toll House. W. W. Jacobs. 2018: Christmas Eve On A Haunted Hulk. F. Cowper. The Green Room. Walter de la Mare. The Red Lodge. H. Russell Wakefield. 2019: The Old Nurse’s Story. Elizabeth Gaskell. The Apple Tree. Writ., Daphne Du Maurier. The Sundial. R.H. Malden. 2020 The Morgan Trust. R. Bridgeman. The Open Door. Mrs. Oliphant. The Story Of A Disappearance. M. R. James. |
2021:
An Eddy On The Floor. Bernard Capes. The Doll’s Ghost. F. Marion Crawford. Mr. Jones. Edith Wharton. 2022: The Corner Shop. Lady Asquith. The Dead & The Countess Gertrude Atherton A Visit. Shirley Jackson. 2023 The Captain Of The Pole Star Arthur Conan Doyle The House By The Poppy Field Marjorie Bowen A Room In A Rectory Andrew Caldecott 2024 Captain Dalgety Returns. Laurence Whistler. Podolo. L.P. Hartley. The Amethyst Cross. Mary Fitt 2025 The Mistress In Black. Rosemary Timperly. Ladyferry. Sarah Orne Jewett. Lucky’s Grove. H. Russell Wakefield. |
BOOK TEXT COLLECTION:
Content story & Cover as described:
About Love: Three Stories By Anton Chekhov. Writ., A. Chekov. Trans., David Helwig. Biblioasis, Book wraparound + endpapers
Home From Vinyl Cafe. Writ., Stuart McLean. Penguin Canada, 1999. Book wraparound.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Writ., Stephen Leacock. McClelland & Stewart. 2013. Book & dust jacket wraparound + endpapers
Secrets From The Vinyl Café. Viking Canada. 2006. Book front & back & dust jacket front & back + endpapers
Vinyl Café Diaries. Viking Canada. 2003. Book front &dust jacket front & back
Cover book front
Welcome Home: Travels in Small Town Canada. Writ., Stuart McLean. Penguin Canada, 1992.
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content interview:
Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years …. Drawn & Quarterly, May 2015: “The Comic-Book Manufacturer. Chris Oliveros interviewed by Sean Rogers”: 60-73.
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:
Content serial:
| Mister X, …. : Writ. & Designer, Dean Motter. Col., Let., Deborah Marks. Vortex Comics. |
| 9, Dec.1986: “Mister X, pt. 4: The Secret,”
10. Aug.1987: “Mister X, pts 1 & 2: Nightclubs and Daydreams,” 11, Nov.1987: “Mister X, pt 3: Nightclubs and Daydreams.” 12, Jan.1988: “Mister X, pts., 4 & 5: Nightclubs and Daydreams.” |
PERIODICAL TEXT ANTHOLOGY:
Content essay & Cover Front:
DA 78, A Journal Of The Printing Arts, Spring/Summer 2016: “Heading to Palookaville: Seth and the Art of Graphic Autobiography” Writ., Tom Smart: 2- 65.
Cover:
Front:
The Walrus July/Aug. 2010.
Front & Back:
Canadian Notes & Queries. 106, Winter 2020.
PERIODICAL TEXT AND GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content:
Decoration:
Canadian Notes & Queries 104, Spring 2019: “Our Mascots: Hudson and Stanfield”: 6.
Canadian Notes & Queries 108, Fall/Winter 2020/21: “Shelf Talkers”: 66, 70, 74, 76, 78, 82, 87.
Poem text:
The Walrus July/Aug. 2010: “Poems.” By David McGimpsey: 50 – 61.
Canadian Notes & Queries, 106, Winter 2020: “The North Wing Episode Twenty-Six: Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit Graphic Novels: Al Purdy’s ‘Questions’ adapted by Seth.”: 32-33.
Cover wraparound:
| Canadian Notes & Queries. Biblioasis. | ||
| 80, Summer/Fall 2010.
81, Winter/Spring 2011. 82, Spr./Summer 2011. 83, Summer/Fall 2011. 84, Winter/Spring 2012. 85, Summer/Fall 2012. 86, Winter 2012. 87, Spring 2013. 88, Summer/Fall 2013. 89, Winter/Spring 2014. 90, Summer 2014.. 91, Fall/Winter 2014 |
92, Spring 2015.
93, Summer 2015. 94, Winter 2016. 95, Spring 2016. 96, Summer 2016. 97, Fall 2016. 98, Winter 2017. 99, Spring 2017. 00, Fall 2017. 101, Winter 2018. 102, Summer 2018. 103 Winter 2018/19
|
104, Spring 2019.
105, Fall 2019. Plus Large flaps. 106, Winter 2020. 107, Spring/Summer 2020. 108, Fall/Winter 2020/21. 109, Spring/Summer 2021. 110, Fall/Winter 2021/2022. 111, Spring/Summer 2022. 112, Fall/Winter 2022. 113, Spring/Summer 2023. 114, Fall/Winter 2023. |
PENCILLER:
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:
Content serial:
| Mister X, …: Creator & Writ., Dean Motter. In., William Diamond. Col., Klaus Schönefeld. Let., Deborah Glencross. . | |
| 6, Dec.1985: “The Revenge of Zamora.” | 7, Feb.1986: “The Secret, pts 1& 2” |
| 8, Oct.1986: “The Secret, pt 3”: Creator & Writ., Dean Motter. In., William Diamond. Col., Paul Rivoche. Let., Deborah Marks.. Vortex Comics. | |
WRITER:
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC:
Content essay text:
The Collected Doug Wright. Drawn & Quarterly, April 2009: “Afterword”: 22-50.
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content biography:
Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years …. Drawn & Quarterly, May 2015: “On Doug Wright”:292-297.
NEWSPAPER:
Content:
Globe & Mail, 21 Jan. 2017: “In Praise Of The ‘Holy Church Of The Graphic Novel.” M5.
WRITER & ILLUSTRATOR or COMPILER:
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC:
Content comment & Cover book front + title age:
Forty Cartoon Books of Interest: A Supplement To Comic Art 8. Buenaventura Press, 2006.
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content essay text & illustration:
Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years …. Drawn & Quarterly, May 2015: “On Stanley.” 272-273.
PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC:
Content essay:
Canadian Notes & Queries, 104, Spring 2019: “Go Forth And Multi-Panel”: 34-35.
| Canadian Notes & Queries …:“The Landscape” : 2-3. Biblioasis. | |
| 83, Summer/Fall 2011.
84, Winter/Spring 2012. 85, Summer/Fall 2012. 86, Winter 2012. 87, Spring 2013. 88, Summer/Fall 2013. 89, Winter/Spring 2014. “Microcosm – Part Two.” 90, Summer 2014. ‘Duncan Macpherson.” 91, Fall/Winter 2014. 92, Spring 2015. “Shameless Self Promotion Dep.” 93, Summer 2015. 94, Winter 2016. 95, Spring 2016. 96, Summer 2016. 97, Fall 2016. 98, Winter 2017. “More Boring Cdn Postcards.” 99, Spring 2017. |
100, Fall 2017. (100th Anniversary)*
101 Winter 2018. 102, Summer 2018. (Railway hotel booklets) 103 Winter 2018/19. (Maclean’s covers) 104, Spring 2019. (the Children’s Book of …) 105, Fall 2019. (David Milne) 106, Winter 2020. (Selections from Renann Issacs Gallery) 107, Spring/Summer 2020. 108, Fall/Winter 2020/21. 109, Spring/Summer 2021. 110, Fall/Winter 2021/2022. (Old Book Depart.) 111, Spring/Summer 2022. (The Standard Mag.) 112, Fall/Winter 2022. (Canada Bread) 113, Spring/Summer 2023. No “Landscape” 114, Fall/Winter 2023. No Landscape”. |
*See also “Celebration page”: 1.
DA 69, Journal Of The Printing Arts, , Fall Winter 2011: “Creating A Personal Vernacular Canadian Design Style”: 2- 58.
CO-EDITOR:
BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:
(Co-editor Brad McKay. Published by Drawn & Quarterly unless otherwise noted)
Content strip:
| The Collected Doug Wright. Apr. 2009.
Nipper 1963-1964. Oct. 2010. |
Nipper 1965-1966. Aug. 2011.
Nipper 1967-1968. Dec. 2012 |
EXHIBITS:
Group:
October 3 to November 16 2019 Renann Issacs Contemporay Art Gallery, Guelph Ont: Night Drive.
June 21 to December 15, 2019: Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON: This Is Serious:
June 29 to December 10, 2017: Group show. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto: Every. Now, Then.: Reframing Nationhood.
April 9 to June 25 2017: Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC. . Omnis Temporalis. (Gregory’s art was combined with “Omnis Temporalis” a musical piece composed and performed by Mark Haney Vancouver based classical composer).
November 15 to December 24, 2014: Renann Isaacs Gallery, Guelph ON Drawings in Black and White, Paintings in Gold.
2006: Pratt Institute, New York, NY: Speak: Nine Cartoonists.
March 20 to May 5 2012: NIU Art Museum. New York, NY: Graphic Novel Realism: Back Stage At The Comics.
April 21 to August 19 2007: Phoenix Art Gallery, Phoenix AZ: Uninked: Paintings Sculptures and Graphic Works by Five Contemporary Cartoonists.
November 20 2004 to May 22 2005: Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CAL: Contemporary Literary Comics: Selections From McSweeny’s.
March 12 to April 2005: Hafnarhus. Reykjavik Art Museum. Iceland: NINE Comics Festival.
2002: Napoli Comicon. Naples Italy.
March 24 to May 27 2001: The Power Plant, Toronto, ON: Substitute City: Artists Infiltrate Toronto.
Solo:
Sept. 12 to Dec. 15, 2019: Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON: Seth: A Life All Play.
November 30 to December 23, 2017: Renann Isaacs Gallery, Guelph, ON: The Rooms.
March 2, 7, 2017: Peel Art Museum & Archives, Brampton, ON: Heading to Palookaville: Seth & The Art Of The Graphic Novel.
May 28 to ? 2016: Renann Isaacs Contemporary Gallery. Guelph ON: Group Portraits.
? 2015: Evergreen Cultural Centre. Coquitlam BC: Seth: Dominion:
April 17 to July 5, 2015: The Dunlop Gallery. Regina, SK: Seth’s Dominion.
November 7, 2014 to January 15, 2015 University of Lethbridge Gallery Lethbridge AB: Seth: Dominion.
November 6 to December 19, 2015: Adam Baumgold Gallery. New York. NY.: Seth: Nothing Lasts.
September 10 to October 23 2013: Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY: It’s a Good Life, if You Don’t Weaken (And selected Early Works).
October 10 to November 23, 2011: Adam Baumgold Gallery. New York. NY: The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists: An Exhibition of Drawings by Seth.
February 1 to ?, 2010: Adam Baumgold Gallery. New York, NY: George Sprout: An Exhibition of Drawings & 6 new Dominion buildings..
? 2010: Museum London. London ON: Seth: Dominion.
September 26 2009: Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, ON: Dominion and The Wine King. A float in the Niagara Wine Festival. The Wine King character was also created by Gregory.
February to March 2009: The Dundas Historical Museum. Dundas, ON: Seth: Dominion.
December 2008 to January 4, 2009: Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON: The North Star Talking Picture Show.
December 8, 2008 +-: RENDER. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON: Dominion-Beaver.
2006: Macdonald Stewart Gallery (now the Art Gallery of Guelph) , Guelph, ON: Seth.
June 29 to October 23 2005: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON: Seth: Present Tense 31: Swing Space.
May 20 to September 18 2005: Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PEI: Seth: Bannock, Beans and Black Tea..
PERMANENT COLLECTION:
Art Gallery of Ontario:
“Hush”
“The Death of Jumbo”
SOURCE:
Book:
Palookaville: Seth And The Art Of Graphic Autobiography. Writ., Tom Smart. The Porcupine’s Quill, (An expansion of “Heading to Palookaville.” In DA, 78, Spring/Summer 2016.
Seth Conversations. Ed., Eric Hoffman & Dominick Grace. Jackson. University of Mississippi. 2015.
Book & DVD:
Seth’s Dominion. Filmmaker, Luc Chamberland. Car., Gregory Gallant (Seth). Drawn & Quarterly/National Film Board, Oct. 2016.
Article book:
Canadian Alternatives: Cartoonists Comics & Graphic Novels. Ed., Dominick Grace & Eric Hoffman. University Press of Mississippi, 2018: “Seth’s It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken As Anti-Nostalgia.” Writ., Dominick Grace. 150-161.
Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years …. Drawn & Quarterly, May 2015:
“Seth: An Appreciation.” Writ., Leslie Stein: 255- 260.
“Seth: A Dossier.” Writ., Lemony Snicket: 252-254.
Uninked: paintings, sculpture and graphic work by five contemporary cartoonists. Phoenix Art
Museum, Catalogue for exhibit April 21st – August 19th 2007: “Seth.” Curated & Ed., Chris Ware.
Article periodical:
Amazing Heroes, 198, Jan. 1992: “A Few Words with Seth.” Interviewer, Jeffery Lang: 62-65.
Canadian Review Of Comparative Literature, 43-1, March 2016: “Seth’s Ironic Identities: Forging Canadian History.” Writ., Daniel Marrone: 166-179.
Comics Collector, 6, Winter 1985: “Cerebus The Aardvark.” Writ., Bill Murray: 20-23.
Comics Journal, 162, October 1993: “Seth, Brown, Matt.” Interviewers, Mark Daly & Rich Kreiner. 51-56.
Comics Journal, 193, February 1997: “Seth.” Interviewer, Gary Groth: 58-93.
DA.78, A Journal Of The Printing Arts, Spring/Summer 2016: “Heading to Palookaville: Seth and the Art of Graphic Autobiography” Writ., Tom Smart: 2- 65.
Epic Magazine, 1-6, June 1981: “Book Review.” Writ., Jo Duffy: 75+.
Journal of the Printing Arts, 78, Spring/Summer 2016: “Heading to Palookaville: Seth And The Art Of Graphic Autobiography.” Writ., Tom Smart. DA: A2- 65.
Taddle Creek, XVI-1, 29, Winter 2012/13: “His Cartoonish Majesty Requests: Seth’s obsessions take on a new dimension.” Writ., Conan Tobias: 18-19 & 1.
Article newspaper:
The Expositor [Brantford], 7 Jan. 2016: “Cool ghoul.” Writ., Peter Robb: C2. See also Ottawa Citizen, 18 Dec 2015.
Globe and Mail 11 Sept.1993: “Drawing on painful experience.” Writ., Alan Echenberg: C1.
Globe and Mail 9 Oct.1999: “Comic actor.” Writ., Cathal Kelly: C20.
Globe & Mail, 24 Dec. 2015: “Understanding Seth.” Writ., Sean Rogers: R14.
Toronto Star 27 Feb.1987: “Here’s your guide to superheroes of Canadian comics”: D6.
GALLERY:
Self portrait (1991). Comic Journal, 193, February 1997: 59.
Left to right: Joe Matt, Chester Brown, Gregory Gallant (Seth) A jam cartoon in which each artist did a self portrait as he expected to be at “50 years down the road”. Comics Journal, 162, October 1993: 53.\
Joe Matt (left) Chester Brown, Gregory Gallant (Seth), Comics Journal, 162, October 1993: 52.
CIRCUS CAPERS
Contributors are unidentified but given the early date of the publication and the competence of the work it is reasonable to assume that the illustrator was Les Gilpin.
MEDIUM:
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content serial:
| Three Aces …: “Circus Capers.” Contributor unidentified: … Anglo-American Publishing Ltd. Black & white . | |
| 1-2, January/February 1942: 36-54. | 1-3, March 1942: 43-62. |
GALLERY:
3 Aces Comics, 1-2, January/February 1942: 36
3 Aces Comics, 1-2, January/February 1942: 39.
ALATHA
Created by someone identified as “Samak”, Alatha is an Egyptian ace flying with the Royal Air Force. He has Royal blood with ancestry going back 3000 years to King Ptah. The ghost of Ptah returns to fight the “axis” powers when called upon by “Alatha”. Among the wartime cartoons, this hero stands out as a single departure from heroes who are either Canadian, British or American. Unfortunately, this departure from the usual lasted for only two issues.
MEDIUM:
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Published by Anglo-American Publications Ltd. Colour cover. Black & white content.
Content serial:
3Aces Comics. 1-5, May 1942: “Alatha.” Car., Samak: 39-46.
Three Aces Comics. 1-6, June 1942: “Alatha, The Fearless”. Car., Samak: 29-37.
GALLERY:
3 Aces Comics, 1-5, May 1942: 39.
3 Aces Comics, 1-6, June 1942: 36.
GALLAGHER Kathleen
Kathleen wrote the stories below as a student in Ty Templeton’s Toronto Cartoonist Workshop.
WORK:
WRITER:
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY :
Content story graphic:
Holmes Incorporated. 1, Sept. 2010: Ed., Ty Templeton. Toronto Cartoonist Workshop: “Nightclubbing.” Illus., Eden Bachelder. Let. K.T. Smith: 8-14.
Holmes Incorporated. 2, Aug. 2011: Ty Templeton. Toronto Cartoonist Workshop: “Eight Seconds to Mayhem.” Illus., Danny Setna. Let. K.T. Smith: 50-56.
Content story text:
Holmes Incorporated. 2, Aug. 2011: Ed., Ty Templeton Toronto Cartoonist Workshop: “Reliable Sources.” Design, Ty Templeton: 43-44.
GALLAGHER John
WORK:
ILLUSTRATOR:
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:
Cover front:
Captain Canuck, 6, Dec. 2015. Cover C:
GALAXION
Characters: Aria Schafer, Darvin Deloren, Vessa Khavis Patricia Kusene, Fusella Mierter, General Scavinia Nelson, Jerran Russell, Zandarin Wilder.
Galaxion evolved out of an elementary school partnership between Tara Jenkins and Wendy Linkous. Wendy inspired by some character sketches by Tara drew what would become the Galaxion characters Fusella, Scavina, Vessa and Patty. Tara responded with Aria, who would become the principal protagonist, Zandarin, Darvin, Alex and Myri. All of these characters existed without a plot. Wendy’s involvement diminished over time and the involvement of others increased. Apparently it was David Tallan who suggested that the story be shifted from a textual to a graphic format, a transition reminiscent of Dave Darrigo and his creation “Wordsmith”. At this juncture the project fell more completely into Tara’s hands as she assumed its illustrative side as well.
Conceived as a novel, “Galaxion” tells the adventures of Aria Schafer and the crew of the spaceship Galaxion as they explore star systems. This is possible because the Galaxion has been outfitted with an experimental propulsive drive called hyperspace jump. The first ship to use it disappeared and the second returned badly damaged. Interestingly, the first story “Prologue” to appear in the market, although written later than issue 1, was about the second ship “Pathfinder” to use the hyperspace jump. This story revolves around General Scavina Nelson, Darvin Deloren and Zandarin Wilder. It appeared as a backup story in Thieves and Kings. The Special Edition 1, is again a separate story and involves Darvin Deloren, Fusella Mierter and Zandarin Wilder at the space academy they attended and establishes the relationships between them.
MEDIUM:
BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:
Content novella & Cover book front:
Galaxion The Graphic Novel v. 1. Car., Tara Jenkins/Tallan. Helikon Books, November 1998: Collects periodical issues 1 to 6.
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:
Content:
Thieves & Kings, 16, March 1997: “Galaxion: Prologue”. Car., Tara Jenkins/Tallan. I Box Publishing. Black & white.
| Galaxion …: Car., Tara Jenkins/Tallan: …. Helikon Comics. Black & white. | |
| 1, May 1997: “A Moment In Time”: 1-20.
2, July 1997: “First Contact”: 1-20. 3, Sept. 1997: “Before The Storm”: 1-21. 4, November 1997: “Choices”: 1-20. |
5, January 1998: “Meanwhile…”: 1-20.
6, March 1998: “ Communication”: 1-24. 1, May 1998: Special Edition: “Spring Break”: 1-13. Contains a story not part of the main story line. |
SOURCE:
Article book:
Galaxion: The Graphic Novel v. 1. 1998: “Forward.” Writ., Wendy Linkous
Article periodical:
Galaxion, 1, May 1997: “Galactivity”. Writ’, Tara Jenkins/Tallan.
Galaxion, 1, May 1997: “Contact”. Writ’, Tara Jenkins/Tallan.
GALLERY:
“Aria Schafer & “Zandarin Wilder”. Galaxion, 1, May 1997: Front cover: Illus., Tara Jenkins/Tallan.
“Fusella Mierter”, “Darvin Deloren” and “Zandarin Wilder”. Galaxion, Special Edition1, May 1998: Front cover: Illus., Tara Jenkins/Tallan.
GAGNIER Jacques
“People are always asking how long it takes to draw a cartoon. They don’t understand it takes a lifetime.” Jacques Gagnier, The Hecklers: 237.
Born 25 July 1917 in Montréal. In 1934 & 1935 he studied at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1952 he joined the Star [Montréal] as office boy and later moved to the art department where he did occasional spot cartoons. In the early 1960’s he diversified into commercial art, dabbled in film and became involved in the plastic arts while free-lancing for the Gazette [Montréal] He was later hired on at the Gazette as staff artist and cartoonist.
Gregory Gallant (Seth) described him. “He was good. Very good.”
He died December 1978 in Montréal.
The Children’s Guide To … publications below were illustrated by Jacques and written by Leonard L. Knott. They were published between 1949 and 1955 perhaps by Jacques and Leonard themselves. They appear to have been sponsored by various corporations a strategy similar to that of Ganes Productions Ltd. of Toronto. The images below came from Gallant’s collection.
SOURCE:
Article Book:
The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1979: 237.
Article periodical:
“CNQ, Canadian Notes & Queries, 104, Spring 2019: The Landscape.” Writ., Gregory Gallant (Seth). End papers.
Internet:
“Jacques Gagnier (1917-1978) Quebec.” Writ., Michel Viau. Wikia La BD de Journal Québec. Accessed, 6 May 2019.
GALLERY:
The images below all appeared in CNQ, Canadian Notes & Queries, 104, Spring 2019 on the end papers and come from Gregory Gallant’s collection.
GAD Victor
This illustrator and designer arrived in Canada in 1984 and set up the VictoR GAD studio in Toronto.
Other books he has illustrated are Colin and the Computer by Peter Desbarates and Mischief City by Tim Wynne-Jones.
WORK:
ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK TEXT:
Content novel & Cover dust jacket wraparound:
Left Behind In Squabble Bay. Writ., Jack Hodgins. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1988.
POSTER:
“Mephisto’s Dream/Le Reve de Mephisto”, Actor’s Lab Theatre/ Le Contre Courant, March 4 – 29, 1986. 614 mm h X 280 mm w.
SOURCE:
Article book:
Left Behind In Squabble Bay. 1988: “VictoR GAD.” dust jacket.