MURPHY Dan

                                                1988 Portfoolio: 188.

Born in Missouri U.S.A. He moved to Canada in the 1970’s, where he drew cartoons for various underground newspapers and magazines. By 1987 he was cartooning for the Province [Vancouver], and the Rothco Syndicate.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content cartoon editorial:

Caricature . Cartoons Canada. Ed., Terry Mosher. Linda Leith Publishing, 2012: 65.

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 …: The Year in Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Charles Gordon. Macmillan of Canada, ….
6: 1990.	7: 1991.	8: 1992.	9: 1993.

Portfoolio…: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Ken MacQueen Macmillan of Canada, ….
10: 1994.	11: 1995.	12: 1996.

Portfoolio …. The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Jay Stone Macmillan of Canada, …
13, 1997.	14, 1998.	15, 1999.	16, 2000.	17, 2001.

Portfoolio 18: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed., Guy Badeaux. Writ., Scott Feschuk. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2002.

Portfoolio …. The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed. & Writ., Guy Badeaux . McArthur & Co. …
19, 2003.	20, 2004.	21, 2005.

Portfoolio …: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed., & Writ., Warren Clements. McArthur & Co. ….
22: 2006.	23: 2009.	24: 2010.	25: 2011.

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content cartoon panel &Cover book front:

You Might Be From British Columbia If … MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc., 2015.

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

 Content cartoon panel:

 2000 Reasons To Hate The Millennium: A 21^st Century Survival Guide. Ed., Josh Freed & Terry Mosher. Doubleday Canada Ltd., 1999.

ILLUSTRATOR:

PERIODICAL TEXT ANTHOLOGY:

Cover front:

The Canadian Forum, LXXIV-845, December 1995: “It’s Our Play”.

The Canadian Forum, LXXV-852, September 1996: “Sex And Feminism”.

The Canadian Forum, LXXV-856, January/February 1997: “Days Of Factions” 

The Canadian Forum, LXXV-859, May 1997: “Alexa’s Quest”.

SOURCE:

Article book:

Portfoolio, The Year 87 In Canadian Caricature. 1987: “Dan Murphy.” 209.

GALLERY:

Portfoolio 19: 155.

THE MUMS: MAXIE & MINI

This humorous feature created by Adrian Dingle under the pen name “Jon Darian” ( a name he would use in the future for other features) appears to have been simply a filler. In the early issues of Triumph Adventure it appeared several times in each issue, but as additional artists contributed stories to the magazine the frequency of “The Mums” decreased to one per issue. With the transfer of Triumph Adventure from Hillborough Studio  to the Bell Features stable it disappeared.

MEDIUM:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content serial:

Triumph Adventure Comic…: “The Mums .. Maxie and Mini.” Car., Jon Darian. (A. Dingle). Hillborough Studio. Black & white.
1-1, Aug.1941: 17, 50 & 63. 1-2, Sept. 1941: 30, 40, 63. 1-4, Nov.1941: 23, 25 & 39.	1-5, Jan.1942: 42. 1-6, Feb. 1942: 53, (lower half).

GALLERY:

..

Triumph Adventure Comics, 1-4, Nov. 1941: 25

MR MONSTER

See DOC STERN/MR MONSTER

 

MOYER Harry B. “Hy”

Moyer was born in 1884 in Beamsville Ontario but appears to have had family connections in the Pittsburgh area U.S.A.

He first worked for the Pittsburgh Dispatch. In 1908 he began working for the Toronto Star. He did political cartoons at this time and was working at the Star during the 1911 election. In 1915 presumably still working for the Star, he wrote an essay about the trials and tribulation of a newspaper artist for The Canadian Magazine. If the article reflects Moyer’s actual experiences then we can conclude that he was a versatile newspaper artist. Furthermore he was a fluid writer with a wry sense of humour.

He then moved to King Features Syndicate in New York City. In the mid 1920’s, he returned to Toronto, and joined the staff of the Evening Telegram where he developed a large following for his sports cartoons. He also created the humorous cartoon strip “Nothing But The Truth” which appeared in the Toronto Evening Telegram sometime in 1928 and was still appearing as of December 30, 1936. He also worked as a freelancer his cartoons appeared in Goblin Magazine and he illustrated front pages of sheet music..

During World War 2 he moved to the Globe and Mail and worked as a cartographer. He also became a regular contributor to Bell Features graphic magazines. His former newspaper strip “Nothing But The Truth” appeared in both Active Comics and Joke Comics. These were probably reprints of his newspaper strip. However, his “Izzy Brite”, “Canadian Capers”, Dibs & Dabs” all appear to have been original to the Bell periodicals. “Happy Daze” in the black and white Active Comics became “Java Bean” in the colour Super Duper Comics. This feature reveals that Moyer held the typical prejudices and stereotypes prevalent in his day, which have dated the feature and would make it unacceptable for publication today.

He was working for the Hamilton Spectator when he died in a head on car crash at Grand Island in New York state on 9 October 1950. His wife and daughters were critically injured. They appear to have been returning to their home in Toronto after spending Thanksgiving Day in the U.S.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:                                                                          Published by Bell Features & Publishing Co. unless otherwise noted.

Content humor:

Active Comics, 23, no date: “Canadian Capers”: 8-9.

Active Comics, … no date: “Dibs & Dabs.”… Black & white.
26: 40-41.	28: 8.

Active Comics … no date: “Izzy Brite.”. Black & white.
23: Back cover.	24: 26-27.	25: Inside front cover.	26: 48-49.	27: 16-17.

Active Comics, 27, no date: “Happy Daze”: 23-27. Black & white. (“Happy Daze.” Became “Java Bean.” In Super Duper Comics

Active Comics, 29, no date: Half page of unidentified panel cartoons probably by Hy Moyer.: Inside front cover. Black & white.

Active Comics, … no date: “Nothing But The Truth”:… Black & white.
25: 26.	26: 29.	28: 9.

Active Comics, 26, no date: “Rummy Rimes.” Car., unidentified but probably Hy Moyer: Inside front cover.

Joke Comics, 23 no date: “Nothing But The Truth.”: inside front cover, 24-25. Black & white.

Super Duper Comics 3, May 1947: “Java Bean.” F.E. Howard Publications. Colour.

PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC:

Content:

Goblin …: …
IV-9. March 1924: 6,	V-1, July 1924: 8 (full page), 22. V-11, June 1925: 6, 10, 23.

ILLUSTRATOR:

SHEET MUSIC:

On Canadians On! Words & Music, Pauline Hahn. Publisher, Paulin Hahn. 1917.

WRITER:

PERIODICAL TEXT ANTHOLOGY:

Content information:

The Canadian Magazine. Dec. 1915: “Art and the Newspaper”: 100-106.

SOURCE:

Article book:

The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarats & Terry Mosher. McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1979: 246.

Article periodical:

Maclean’s Magazine, Mar. 1914: “The Cartoonmen of Canada.” Writ., John Edgecumbe Staley. 45, 48.

Article newspaper:

Globe & Mail, 10 Oct. 1950: “Hy Moyer Killed; Wife, Daughters Injured in Crash”:1.

Toronto Star, 10 Oct. 1950: “Harry B. Moyer Dies In U.S. Auto Crash”: 10.

 

MYETTE André

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

BD,1-1, no date: Untitled..

BD, 1-2, 3ième trimester 71 “Coelus et Tellus.”

BD, 2-1, premier trimestre 73 “C…”

BD, 2-6/7, été, 1973: DU Music Hall en coulisses …”

ILLUSTRATOR:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Cover front:

BD, 2-1, premier trimestre 73:.

GALLERY:

BD, 2-1, premier trimestre 73. Front cover.

 

MUSIC NOOK

A review of music and records in Canadian Heroes done by Rose Halperin.

MEDIUM:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content serial music review text:

Canadian Heroes : “Music Nook.” Writer, Rose Halperin.
2-6, Oct. 1943: 38. 3-1, Nov./Dec. 1943: 32. 3-4, March 1944. Back cover. 3-6, May 1944: 58.	4-1, June 1944: “Peter and The Wolf.”: 21, 27. 4-6, January 1945: 31. 5-1, February 1945: 63. 5-3, June 1945: 28. 5-4, July 1945: “Scheherazade.” 23, 30. 5-5, Sept. 1945: “Romeo & Juliet Overture.” 34

 

MURRAY Steve

Nom de Plum: Chip Zdarsky & Todd Diamond.

Born: 21 December 1975 in Edmonton and grew up in Barrie Ontario. Murray is a comic book artist and a journalist.

He studied art at Sheridan College.

He is co-creator of “Sex Criminals” which won a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award and has been optioned for a TV pilot by Universal Television.

He wrote and illustrated an advice column called “Extremely Bad Advice” for the National Post’s The Ampersand its pop culture section’s online edition. He also has illustrated for the Globe and Mail, New Yorker, CBC and Canadian Business.

He created Prison Funnies (online) & Monster Cops (print or online).

Recently he has been commissioned by Archie Comics to write the revived Jughead series which first appeared October 2015. He has also been commissioned to do the new Howard the Duck which first appeared March 2015. He was a fan of both these characters as a child.

He is co-founder with Kagan McLeod, Ben Shannon & Cameron Stewart of the studio “The Royal Academy of Illustration and Design, which produced Rumble Royale.

In 2016, Big Hard Sex Criminals, a compendium of the Sex Criminals periodicals was placed on the American Library Association’s “banned and challenged books” list.

WORK:

ILLUSTRATOR:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content serial:

Sex Criminals, 1, Sept. 2013: “Sex Criminals: Suzie Down in the Quiet.” Writ., Matt Fraction. Illus., Chip Zdarsky. Col., Becka Kinzie.

WRITER:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content story:

Civil War II: Choosing Sides, 5, Oct. 2016. “ Alpha Flight”. Illus., Ramón Pérez: 3-11. Marvel Worldwide Inc.

The Silver Coin, v. 1. Image Comics Inc., October 2021: “The Ticket”. Illus., Michael Walsh.

WRITER & ILLUSTRATOR  :

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content:

Folio cover variants:

Kaptara, v. 1: Fear Not Tiny Alien. Image Comics, December 2015: 121, 123.

Novel:

Kaptara, v. 1: Fear Not Tiny Alien. Illus., Kagan McLeod. Image Comics, Dec. 2015.

SOURCE:

Article periodical:

Ace, 2, May 2015: “Sex & Ducks & Chip Zdarsky.” Interviewer, John B. Cooke. 20-31.

Article newspaper:

Expositor [Brantford], 13 Mar. 2014: “Canadian artist behind breakthrough comic.” Writ., Julia Alexander. C5.

The Expositor [Brantford], 13 April 2017: “You can’t read that!” Writ., Tristan Hopper. C8.

Toronto Star, 19 Dec. 2015: “Comics artist living his childhood dreams.” Writ., Victoria Ahearn. E5.

Internet:

“Chip Zdarsky.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Zdarsky. Accessed 18 March 2014.

MUNROE Ken

                                            1988 Portfoolio: 187.

Studied graphic design at George Brown College. Travelled the Far East, teaching English for a year and a half in Japan. He was a commercial artist who rose to ad agency production manager. On the side he freelanced cartoons and was a regular contributor to the Union Art Service.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY;

Content cartoon editorial:

Best Canadian Political Cartoons, 1984. Ed., N.M. Stahl. For.,Robert LaPalme. McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Sept. 1984: 133, 177.

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 …: The Year in Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Charles Gordon. Macmillan of Canada, ….
6: 1990.	7: 1991.	8: 1992.	9: 1993.

SOURCE:

Article book:

Portfoolio, The Year 85 In Canadian Caricature.1985: “Ken Munroe”: 210.

Portfoolio 9: The Year in Canadian Caricature. 1993: “Ken Munroe”: 154.

MUNROE Grant

Born 25 April 1923 in Winnipeg.

He attended the Musgrove School of Art and the Winnipeg School of Art. In 1994, he earned an honours diploma from the Ontario College of Art.

He joined the National Film Board, and in 1945 animated the songs “My Darling Clementine” and “Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze” using cutouts.

He was one of the two actors in Neighbours, and coined the term “pixilation” for the technique used in the film. He acted in and co-wrote Two Baguatelles and Cannon with Norman McLaren. He did story boards and helped animate Potterton’s My Financial Career an adaption of Stephen Leacock’s story.

In the 1970’s he shifted to documentaries, doing McLaren on McLaren (1983) and See You In The Funny Papers: The Life and Work of Lynn Johnston (1983).

He retired in 1988.

In December 2003, the Museum of Modern Art produced the exhibit Grant Munroe Rediscovered – a retrospective.

WORK:

ACTOR:

FILM:

Neighbours, 1952, 8 min., 10 sec., techniques used to animate drawings or puppets were used to animate live actors. It is sometimes called pixilation. Sound also animated. Story of two neighbours who kill each other and their families over desire to possess a flower. Eight awards including Hollywood, Oscar, Rome.

Two Bagatelles, 1952, 2 min., 22 sec., two studies using pixilation. “On the Lawn” actor Munroe does a pixilated waltz to McLaren’s synthetic music. “In the Backyard” is a fast march to a calliope.

Canon, 1964, 9 min., 13 sec., a visual and musical demonstration of the canon, a type of music. Included live action photography of actor Grant Munroe. Five awards, including Canadian Film Award, Melbourne.

SOURCE:

Article book:

a handbook of Canadian film. Writ., Eleanor Beattie. Peter Martin Associates Ltd/Take One, 1973: “Grant Munroe”: 173.

 

MULOCK Julian

Born in Chelsea London England of Canadian parents.

He graduated with honours from the Special Art Course at Central Technical School in Toronto in 1972. From 1973 to 1979, he was a staff illustrator at the Royal Ontario Museum. He illustrates books, magazines and advertising and has paintings in corporate, private and public collections plus murals in several venues.

He is a member of the Society of Canadian Artists and a past President of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto.

WORK:

ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK TEXT:

Content poetry & Cover book front:

News Of The Day Lustily Shouted And Other Stabs At Victorian Verse. Writ., Warren Clements. Toronto: Nestlings Press. 2015.

BOOK TEXT ANTHOLOGY:

Content poetry:

Other Men’s Business. Nestlings Press, 2017: “Old Possums Book Of Practical Cats.” Writ, T. S. Eliot: 59, 61.

SOURCE:

Article book:

News Of The Day Lustily Shouted And Other Stabs At Victorian Verse. 2015: “Julian Mulock.” Back page.