SON OF THE RANGE
A western cartoon story created by Bus Griffiths and published by Maple Leaf Publishing Co. in the 1940’s.
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SOMETHING Miike
SOMETHING Miike
A Toronto cartoonist, he created the webcartoon “Rum and Molotov.
WORK:
WRITER:
BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY: All published by Toronto Comics Anthology.
Content story:
Toronto Comics Anthology, Ed., Steven Andrews ,et al. 2014: “Blackout.” Illus., Todd Sullivan: 1-10.
Toronto Comics vol., 2, Ed., S.Andrews, et al. May 2015: “The Blake Spire of York.” Illus., Todd Sullivan. 92-110.
CO-EDITOR:
BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY: All published by Toronto Comics Anthology.
Toronto Comics Anthology, Co-ed., S. Andrews & Nelson da Rocha., 2014.
Toronto Comics Anthology, Co-ed., v. 2. Co-ed., S. Andrews. & N. da Rocha. May 2015.
SOURCE:
Article book graphic:
Toronto Comics Anthology, Toronto Comics Anthology, 2014: “Writers”: 79.
SOMBRE VILAIN
LE SOMBRE VILAIN
Among the six creations appearing in Le Jour on February 28, 1974, Hurtubise’s own creation “Le Sombre Vilain” was signed with the pseudonym “Zyx”. It followed the various schemes of a comic opera conspirator whose goal was the total destruction of the world. The paper lasted as a daily only to 1976. “Le Sombre Vilain” was the only strip to be brought back when the paper was revived as a weekly in 1977, but the paper again ceased operations in 1978.
Hurtubise’s very stylized and modern graphics and his caustic sense of humor put “Le Sombre Vilain” in the forefront of Francophone Canadian comics. Jacques Samson has noted “Hurtubise has managed to achieve a synthesis between text and image possibly unique in Francophone Canadian comic art.”
MEDIUM:
BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:
Content story & Cover book front:
Le Sombre Vilain: Mort Ou Vif. Car., Jacques Hurtubise (Zyx), Montréal: Croc/Ludcom Inc., 4e trimestre, 1981.
SOURCE:
Article book:
Canuck Comics. Ed., John Bell. Matrix Books/Matrix Graphic Series. 1986: “Québec: A Short History.” Writ., Luc Pomerleau: 108.
The World Encyclopedia of Comics. Ed., Maurice Horn. Chelsea House Publishers, 1976: “Hurtubise, Jacques (1950 – ).” Writ., Maurice Horn: 208.
GALLERY:
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From, Le Sombre Vilain: Mort Ou Vif, Front cover.
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SNEYD Doug
SNEYD Douglas (Doug)
“Without Hugh Hefner none of this would have been possible.” Doug Sneyd, The Hecklers, 251.
Born December 1931 in Guelph Ontario.
In the 1950’s, after graduating from high school in Guelph, Ontario, he worked as a commercial artist in Montréal then Toronto. He became a freelance illustrator of books and magazines. He developed a single panel news cartoon which appeared in the Toronto Star and became syndicated though out North America.
He brought a folio of his illustrations to Chicago in the early 1960’s and showed them to a Playboy editor. The editor convinced him to try his hand at cartooning. He became established with that magazine regularly drawing a full page, full colour “girlie” cartoon. From 1964, he has sold about five hundred cartoons to Playboy. In 1969, he moved his family to Orillia where his studio overlooks Lake Couchiching.
He branched out into political cartooning experimenting with several features for the Toronto Star. He eventually settled on a daily lighthearted cartoon strip called “Scoops”. He syndicated it and it appeared in over a hundred newspapers in Canada and the U.S. running approximately 1979 to 1982.
In 1993, he wrote, produced and directed, for the Ontario Government, “Black-eyed Susan” an educational film about spousal abuse.
WORKS:
CARTOONIST & ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION: The panels in these books were written by Doug Sneyd and various gag writers.
Content panel cartoon & Cover book front & back:
Secret Sneyd. Dark Horse Books, April 2017.
Unpublished 1., Sneyd Syndicate Inc, 2007.
Content panel cartoon & Cover book & dust jacket front & back:
The Art of Doug Sneyd. Forward, Hugh Hefner. Intro., Lynn Johnston. Dark Horse Books, July 2011.
ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK TEXT:
Content biography & Cover dust jacket front :
Fur Trader. Writ., Robert D. Ferguson. Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1961.
Man From Saint Malo. Writ., Robert D. Ferguson. Macmillan of Canada, 1959.
Content novel youth & Cover dust jacket front :
A Boy At Leafs Camp. Writ., Scott Young. Little Brown & Co. 1963.
The Legend Of The Devil’s Lode. Writ., Robert Collins. Little Brown & Co., 1962.
The Riddle Of The Haunted River. Writ., Lawrence Earl. Little Brown & Co., (Canada) Ltd., 1962.
PERIODICAL TEXT ANTHOLOGY:
Content story:
Family Herald: Canada’s National Farm Magazine, 19 March 1959: “The Sin of Jimmy Lincoln”. Writ., Cy Earl: 14, 15.
Star Weekly, 12 December 1964: “The Christmas of Donegan’s Brawl”. Writ., Gordon Green: 9.
Content story & Cover front:
Canadian Weekly, June 27 – July 4, 1964:6-9. “The Funniest War That Ever Was: pt 1.” Writ., Duncan McLeod.
SOURCE:
Article book:
The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1979: “Doug Sneyd”: 250 – 251.
Secret Sneyd. Dark Horse Books, April 2017: “Introduction.” Writ., Doug Sneyd: 8-10, 280.
Unpublished 1., Sneyd Syndicate Inc, 2007: “Meet Doug Sneyd”: ii.
GALLERY:
Family Herald: Canada’s National Farm Magazine, 19 March 1959: 14.
Fur Trader. 1961. Dust jacket.
A Boy At Leafs Camp. 1963: Dust jacket.
“The Fenian Raids – The Canadian’s commander is unhorsed as his troops charge the Fenians.” Canadian Weekly, June 27 – July 4, 1964: Front cover.
SNELGROVE Charles
SNELGROVE Charles Reginald
Born in Toronto May 23, 1893, he attended the Ontario College of Art and studied under John Russell.
During World War 1, he served with the Canadian Army Service Corps at Omsk in Siberia. And crossed Siberia with the Allied forces which accompanied the Czech Army’s historic march.
He first worked with the Toronto Star then transferred to the Evening Telegram [Toronto] circa 1932 where he served as a newspaper artist. He illustrated Ted McCall’s cartoon adventure strip “Robin Hood and Company” from its beginning September 23, 1935 till ill health forced him to stop about the end of January 1940. He died in the Toronto General Hospital June 3, 1940.
Charles Snelgrove was an established painter in oils and a member of the Toronto Art Gallery and the Royal Canadian Yacht Club.
SOURCE:
Article newspaper:
Globe & Mail, 4 June 1940: “C. Snelgrove Dies Aged 45.” 12.
SNAKE [THE]
THE SNAKE
This was a character that Dave Darrigo of Special Studio thought suited Ron Hobbs‘ illustrative style. Ron agreed to illustrate it.
The identity, background and personal ethics of this tough uncompromising crime fighter were shrouded in mystery but the “Snake” has a strong moral sense It was intended to be a serial but only one issue was published. An origin story about “Madame Joy” was inserted into the main plot and illustrated by Peter Hsu.
MEDIUM:
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:
Content story & Cover front:
The Snake no. 1, December 1989: “The Den of Madame Joy.” Writ., Dave Darrigo. Illus. Ron Hobbs. 1-19; 23-30 & Illus. Peter Hsu: 20-22.
GALLERY:
The Snake, 1, Dec. 1989. Front cover. Illustrator, Ron Hobbs. .
SMYTH Fiona
SMYTH Fiona
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This Toronto based artist teaches illustration and cartooning at Ontario College of Art and Design University.
Her cartoon strip “Cheez” ran in the weekly newspaper Exclaim! for nearly ten years. Cheez a collection of 100 strips was published by Pedlar Press in 2001. In addition her strip “Fazooza” ran in Vice Magazine for eight years. She branched out into the black and white comic book industry cartooning a story that appeared in Vortex. She also collaborated with Maurice Vellekoop and Gregory Gallant (Seth) to produce the mini comic called Fabulous Babes.
She created the science fiction graphic novel The Never Wares which was published by Annick Press in 2011, and illustrated What Makes a Baby (2013) written by Cory Silverberg and published by Seven Stones Press. This was followed up by Sex Is A Funny Word (2015).
In 2018, she contributed to the Four Panel and North Wing Projects. “Maw Spoke” is an experimental work based on the four panel format which appeared in 4 Panel 2. In the Four Panel Project she adapts Marie Claire Blais’ novel Mad Shadows to a two page graphic story.
Somnambulance is a retrospective of her work.
WORK:
CARTOONIST:
BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content experiment:
4 Panel 2. Popnoir Editions, May 2018: “Maw Spoke.”.
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content story:
Vortex, 1-13, 1987: “Gert The Mannequin”: 7-12.
PERIODICAL TEXT:
Content story graphic:
Descant, 164, Spring 2014: “The Maul.” 68-77.
PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content story graphic:
Canadian Notes & Queries, 104, Spring 2019: “The North Wing: Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit Graphic Novels Episode Twenty-Four, Marie-Claire Blais’ Mad Shadows’’, as adapted by Fiona Smyth.” 32-33.
Owl, 37-2, March 2012: “The Pest.” 19.
Taddle Creek, V-1, Christmas 2001: “Caught”: 10-11
Taddle Creek, XII-2, Summer 2009: “Knows Swonk”: 26-31.
CARTOONIST & ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:
Content & Cover:
Somnambulance. Koyama Press May 2018.
ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content story:
The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls. Bedside Press, 2015: “Montreal, 1993.” Writ., Mariko Tamaki: 243-247.
PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content
Decoration:
Taddle Creek, 28, Summer 2012: 8, 14, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 45.
Game:
Owl, 20-4, April 1995: “Frog Leapin’ Puzzles ‘N’ Fun”: 18-19.
Owl, 22-3, April 1997: Bring two halves of a picture together: Back cover.
Cover front:
Taddle Creek, XXII-1, 42, Winter 2018/19: “The Rheum”
CO-ILLUSTRATOR:
PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Cover front:
chickaDEE, 30-2, March 2008, co-illus., Steve Manale.
SOURCE:
Article book :
The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls. Bedside Press, 2015: “Biographies”: 276.
Article periodical:
Descant, 164, Spring 2014: No title. 254.
Owl, 37-2, March 2012: “Creators”: 24.
Taddle Creek, 42, Winter 2018/2019: “Fiona Smyth”.
Vortex, 1-13, 1987: “Editorial”. Ed., Deborah Marks: Inside front cover.
GALLERY:
Taddle Creek, V-1, Christmas 2001: “Caught”: 10.
Taddle Creek, V-1, Christmas 2001: “Caught”: 11.
“The Ruem.” (cardboard, paper, polymer clay, and acrylic gouche) Taddle Creek, 42,Winter 2018/2019. Front cover. In this image Fiona sought to illustrate “… female angst and dread, the sometimes ill-at- ease feeling of introspection. This room is not a safe space or escape from external threats.”
Canadian Notes & Queries, 104, Spring 2019: 32.
Canadian Notes & Queries, 104, Spring 2019: 33.
SMITH Sidney
SMITH Sidney
Born in rural Nova Scotia.
He graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and subsequently moved to Toronto, about 2013. He and his family returned to Halifax in 2019, in order to be closer to the larger family although it was not without some reservation. As Sydney said in his interview with Bernie: “What I will miss most is the community here in Toronto – the illustrators, editors, publishers. You get to share things with each other and you feel like you’re part of something big here – like we’re all doing something important.”
Conceived by poet JonArno Lawson, Sidewalk Flowers is an interesting story told entirely in pictures without words. It won the Governor General’s Award for both JonArno and Sydney and was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book both in 2015. Sydney was awarded the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award for illustration.
Town Is by the Sea, received the United Kingdom’s Kate Greenway Medal for illustration. This book is the story of a boy whose father is a Cape Breton coal miner. Bernie Goedhart says of his illustrations: “Smith’s illustrations are stunning. He knows the area and manages to capture the light on the water, as well as the oppressive darkness of the mine.”
Inkling is a delightful fantasy story about a boy illustrating a graphic novel for a school project and his relationship with a blob of ink which helps him. The story also includes an underlying criticism of the comic book industry.
Small In The City was the first book Sydney both wrote and illustrated. He dedicated it to Shelia Barry his editor who died while this book was in progress.
WORK:
ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC:
Content novel & Cover book front & back:
Inkling, Writ., Kenneth Oppel. Harper Collins Publishers Ltd. 2018.
Content story & Cover book front & back:
Sidewalk Flowers. Writ., JonArno Lawson. Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2015.
Content story & Cover book & dust jacket wrap around:
Town Is by the Sea. Writ., Joanne Schwartz. Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2017.
WRITER & ILLUSTRATOR:
Content story & Cover book front:
Small In The City. Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2019.
SOURCE:
Article, book dust jacket flap:
Town Is by the Sea. Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2017.
Article newspaper:
“A Child’s-eye View.” Writ., Bernie Goedhart. The Expositor [Brantford], 31 Aug. 2019: D1.
GALLERY:
Image from front cover of Street Flowers, 2015.
Town Is by the Sea. 2017: Dust jacket front.