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AURORA Saffron

Illustrator and video game designer.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

Toronto Comics, v. 3, Ed., Stephen Andrews et al. Toronto Comics Anthology, May 2016: “Shrieking Freaks”: 97-107.

SOURCE:

Article book:

Toronto Comics, v. 3. May 2016: “Saffron Aurora”: 97.

ATWOOD Margaret

Margaret Atwood, poet and novelist drew occasional cartoons for This Magazine under the pseudonym “Bart Gerrard”.

About 2014, Atwood did a story “Comics, Paper Dolls, Glasses, Contacts” for Hope Nicholson’s book The Secret Loves of Geek Girls. From this meeting Hope introduced Margaret to illustrator Johnnie Christmas and publisher Dark Horse to help Margaret with another story she had in mind. The result was the serial Angel Catbird. This project was published in Association with the “Keep Cats Safe” and “Save Bird Lives” initiatives of Nature Canada, which at over 75 years is Canada’s oldest national nature conservation charity.

In 2017, as part of the Globe & Mail’s “The Story Of Canada” fictional series commemorating our sesquicentennial, Margaret Atwood wrote “Oursonette”. Art Director Bryan Gee was looking for an illustrator for the story when art historian Jaleen Grove, who was originally from Victoria and knew Ken Steacy, suggested he would be a good fit. Ken not only illustrated the piece – he and Margaret expanded and reworked it into the graphic novel Warbears.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls….: “…” Bedside Press, 2015
13: “Comics”	14: “Paper Dolls”.	15: “Glasses”.	16: “Contacts”.

WRITER & ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content story & Cover book front:

Good Bones and Simple Murders. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1994.

Content story & poetry & Cover book front:

Good Bones. Coach House Press, 1992.

Murder In The Dark. Coach House Press, 1993.

Content poetry & Cover book front:

Journals of Susanna Moodie. Oxford University Press, 1970.

WRITER:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content novel:

Angel Catbird, …: “…” Illus., Johnnie Christmas. Col., Tamra Bonvillain. Let., Nate Piekos of Blambot. Dark Horse Books/Dark Horse Comics Inc.,
v. 1, September 2016. v. 2, February 2017: “To Castle Catula.”	v. 3, July 2017: “The Catbird Roars”.

The Handmaiden’s Tale. Adapt. & Illus., Renée Nault. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2019.

CO-WRITER:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content story:

Warbears. Co-writ., Ken Steacy. Illus., K Steacy. Dark Horse Books/Dark Horse Comics Inc., February 2019. (Collected from the periodical below).

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content story:

Warbears,…. Co-writ., Ken Stacy. Illus., Ken Steacy. Dark Horse Comics.
1, September 2018.	2, October 2018.	December 2018.

SOURCE:

Article book:

Angel Catbird. Writ., Margaret Atwood. Dark Horse Books/Dark Horse Comics Inc.,  Sept. 2016: “Introduction”: 5-10.

Article magazine:

Maclean’s, 12 Sept. 2016: “Faster, pussycat! Kill! Kill!” Writ., Brian Bethune: 64-66.

Walrus, Sept. 2016: “Rescue Cat; Margaret Atwood reimagines the everyday feline as a comic-book superhero.” Writ., Margaret Atwood. Illus., Johnny Christmas. Col., Tamra Bonvillain. 41-45.

Zoomer Magazine, Oct. 2016: “Atwood Gets Graphic”: 14.

Article newspaper:

Globe &Mail, 22 Jan. 2016: “B.C. comic artist pairs with Margaret Atwood for Angel Catbird series”. Writ., Ian Bailey.

Waterloo Region Record, 1 Sept. 2016: “I always had coloured pencils.” Writ., Lauren La Rose: D3

ATTILA THE BUM

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ATOMIC OVERDRIVE

Atomic Overdrive was a comic book produced by Toronto writer Dave Darrigo and illustrators Peter Grau and Paul McCusker , and published by Caliber Press in Michigan, U.S.

The Atomic Overdrive stories were a combination of two genres popular through the 1950’s and 1970’s: science fiction and hotrods/car racing. Issue 1 was the work of the Dave Darrigo – Peter Grau team. Dave was the writer. Peter illustrated the stories. The stories: “The Creature that craved my comet” and “One of our zombies is missing” revolved around a Frankenstein type character. In issue 2 Dave and peter did the first and third stories. The first story “They want to warp our minds” involved aliens. The third story: “Hot Rods: Cold War” continued the hot rods and Frankenstein theme of issue 1 and actually occurred before the events in issue 1. Paul McCusker joined Dave to illustrate the second: “Ghost riders ghost town” which was a spoof combining western and science fiction themes. Peter  painted the covers for both issues.

Issue 2 was the last for Atomic Overdrive which appears to have been published in 1997.

MEDIUM:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:                                                                          Published by Caliber Comics. Colour cover. Black & white content.

Content story & Cover front, Illus., Peter Grau:

Atomic Overdrive,1, no date:                                                                                                       “The Creature That Craved My Comet.” Writ., D. Darrigo. Illus. P. Grau:1-16.                   “Hot Rods And Zombies – One Of Our Zombies Is Missing.” Writ., D. Darrigo.                  Illus P. Grau:17-32.

Atomic Overdrive,.2, no date:                                                                                                       “They Want To Warp Our Minds.” Writ., Dave Darrigo. Illus. Peter Grau: 1-13.                 “Ghost Riders For A Ghost Town.” Writ., D. Darrigo. Illus. Paul McCusker: 15-21.             “Hot Rods And Zombies – Hot Rods = Cold War.” Writer, D. Darrigo. Illus. P.                    Grau: 23-32.

GALLERY:

Atomic Overdrive, 1, 1997: Front cover. Illus., Peter Grau.

Atomic Overdrive, 1, 1997: “One of Our Zombies Is Missing.” Illus., Peter Grau: 32.

Atomic Overdrive, 2, 1997: “Ghost Riders For A Ghost Town”. Illus., Paul McCusker: 15

Atomic Overdrive, 2, 1997: “Hot Rods – Cold War.” (Origin story) Illus., Peter Grau: 23.

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ATKINSON

In the late 1890’s, occasional political cartoons appeared in the Hamilton Spectator that dealt with Canadian subject matter. These cartoons were signed Atkinson but as in the case of many of the cartoons of that era, no biographical information on the cartoonist has been found.

SOURCE:

Book text:

The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1979: 227.

ATKINSON FILM ARTS LTD.

Vic Atkinson a trained animator migrated from England to Canada and joined Crawly Films [Ottawa]. In 1978 he broke away to form Atkinson Film – Arts Ltd.

It began business with a Christmas special The Little Brown Burro (1977/8) which was animated by Pino Lamsweerde who also animated The New Misadventures of Ichabod Crane (1979). Tukiki and His Search For A Merry Christmas was the next Christmas special followed by The Christmas Racoons, (17 Dec. 1980) developed for the CBC by Kevin Gillis and Gary Dunford, writers on Bruno Gerrusi’s Celebrity Cooks series, and Atkinson Film’s The Trolls and The Merry Christmas Express (1981).

Later in 1981, Vic was hospitalized after supervising two segments: “Harry Cannon”, director Pino Lamsweerde, and “Gremlins”, director Barrie Nelson, for the feature film Heavy Metal, produced by Ivan Reitman and directed by Gerald Potterton. He returned to the company only long enough to produce The Raccoons On Ice (1981). He sold his shares to his partner Bill Stevens, apparently because he didn’t like the commercial direction the studio was taking. “I ‘ve been in this business a long time, and I won’t produce garbage. I never will.” Karen Mazurkewich reported him saying. In 1982, after Bill bought out Vic, he bought out Budge Crawley. Crawley Films was burdened with a debt of $1.2 million. Budge sold it for $1. The Company was renamed Atkinson Crawly Film Arts Ltd.

The new company continued its association with the Heavy Metal working on the segment “Harry Cannon and moved on to produce The Care Bears: The Land Without Feelings (1983), The Care Bears: Battle The Ice Machine (1984), Tukiki and His Search For a Merry Christmas, the specials The Raccoons And The Lost Star (1983), The Raccoons Let’s Dance (1984) and the first season 1985/86 of the Racoons series. It produced the sci-fi TV movie The Body Electric (1985) featuring the music of the rock band RUSH and For Better Or For Worse: The Bestest Present (1985) based on the cartoon strip “For Better or for Worse” by Lynn Johnston. In 1986 it produced Babar and Father Christmas.

In 1987, Atkinson Crawley Film Arts Ltd changed its name to Crawley’s Animation. With Shanghi Animation Studio it produced The Nightingale (1987). In association with DIC Animation City Enterprises it did The Adventures of Teddy Raxpin 1987/8, 13 episodes of Dennis The Menace (1988) and 11 episodes of COPS.

It went bankrupt and discontinued operations in 1989.

SOURCE:

Article book:

The Art Of The Movie Heavy Metal. Writ., Carl Macek, Research, Christina Miner, Ed., Susan Cohn. New York: Zoetrope, 1981.

Cartoon Capers; The History of Canadian Animators. Writ., Karen Mazurkewich. McArthur & Co., 1999: 116-120.

Press Kit:

“Titlecraft Presents The Little Brown Burro.” Media Information Kit For General Media Release. Ottawa: Titlecraft Ltd., July 1978.

Internet:

“Atkinson Film – Arts.” Wikipedia the free encyclopedia. Accessed 2 Oct. 2016.

ATKINSON CRAWLEY FILMS

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ASSOCIATION OF CANADIAN EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS

It was founded in 1988 in Winnipeg to promote the interests of Canadian editorial cartoonists..

Christopher Tracy aka Wes Tyrell was elected President in 2012, at the Association’s Montréal conference. Under his Presidency, in 2014 the George Townsend Awards were introduced to replace the National Newspaper Awards Then in 2015, a movement to broaden the Association’s membership and scope to include all cartooning disciplines was set in motion. To reflect this change the Association altered its name to Association of Canadian Cartoonists in 2015.

Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists Conventions:

2010, Sept. 23-26 in Hamilton Ontario.

2012, June 28- July 1 in Montréal Québec.

2014, May 9-16 in Havana Cuba.

Association of Canadian Cartoonists Executive:

Elected 2012:
President	Vice-President	Secretary	Treasurer	Curator	Ambassador
“Wes Tyrell”	Robert Lafontaine	Susan Dewar	Guy Badeaux	Christian Vachon	Terry Mosher

SOURCE:

Correspondence:

Wes Tyrell to Robert MacMillan, 10 Sept. 2016, Email.

Wes Tyrell to Robert MacMillan, 7 Nov. 2016, Email.

Wes Tyrell to Robert MacMillan, 4 January 2019. (Including photos).

Wes Tyrell to Robert MacMillan 15 January 2019. (Including photos).

THE ASSOCIATION OF CANADIAN CARTOONISTS

In 2015, under the Presidency of Christopher Tracey aka Wes Tyrell, a movement to broaden the membership and scope of the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists was set in motion. To reflect this change the Association changed its name to Association of Canadian Cartoonists

Wes Tyrell the last President of the ACEC was elected first President of the new ACC at the 2016 Convention in Toronto and was reelected at the 2018 Convention in Sacramento California.

Association of Canadian Cartoonists Conventions:

2016, May 4 -7: Toronto Ontario

2018, Sept. 20-23: Joint Conference with the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists and the Political Cartoon & Satire Festival, Sacramento, California.

Association of Canadian Cartoonists Executive:

Elected Sept. 2016:
President	Vice-President	Secretary	Treasurer	Curator	Ambassador
“Wes Tyrell”	Robert Lafontaine	Susan Dewar	Guy Badeaux	Christian Vachon	Terry Mosher

Elected 20-23 Sept. 2018:
President	Vice-President	Secretary	Treasurer	Curator	Ambassador
“Wes Tyrell”	Robert Lafontaine	Susan Dewar	Guy Badeaux	Christian Vachon	Terry Mosher

At each convention the newly created George Townsend Award goes to best cartoon is given.

SOURCE:

Correspondence email:

Wes Tyrell to Robert MacMillan, 10 Sept. 2016,

Wes Tyrell to Robert MacMillan, 7 Nov. 2016,

Wes Tyrell to Robert MacMillan, 4 Jan. 2019

Wes Tyrell to Robert MacMillan, 4 January 2019. (Including photos).

Wes Tyrell to Robert MacMillan 15 January 2019. (Including photos).

Internet:

Association of Canadian Cartoons: acc.format.com

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