SHUSTER Joe

This Toronto born cartoonist had the Joe Shuster Awards named after him.

Born 10 July 1914 in Toronto.

Shuster, first cousin of comedian Frank Shuster moved to Cleveland, Ohio, with his family when he was nine years old. He studied art at John Huntington Polytechnical Institute and the Cleveland School of Art, where he met his collaborator, Siegel. The pair began publishing science fiction magazines and in 1936 broke into the comic book business by drawing lackluster adventure tales. Shuster’s illustrations were rudimentary but well conceived.

They then created the Superman comic book character. In the original version Superman’s mild-mannered alter ego, Clark Kent, worked for the Daily Star, which was patterned after the Toronto Star. The newspaper’s name in the strip was changed later to The Daily Planet.

In 1938 the duo sold Superman for $130 to Action Comics, but failed to copyright the character. They were paid to draw the series as staffers until 1947 when the “Man of Steel” became the most famous hero in comic book history. When they sued for a more equitable percentage of royalties, they were fired and Shuster stopped drawing completely.

By the mid-1970s he was blind and living in an apartment in Queens, New York. When the first Superman movie, starring Christopher Reeve, made $82.5 million, Siegel sued, and DC comics restored their creators’ credits and agreed to pay each of them $20 000 a year for life.

Died 30 June 1992 in Los Angeles, California U.S.A.

Also see: CANADA POST COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS

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Newspaper:

Article newspaper:

Toronto Star, 27 Feb.1987: “Here’s your guide to superheroes of Canadian comics.”.

Web:

“ Shuster Joe.” HUSTAK Alan, The Canadian Encyclopedia Online.

 

SHOULTZ Curt 

Born in Detroit and raised in Ann Arbor Michigan.

He studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and became a freelance comic book artist and commercial illustrator based in Brandon Manitoba.. He created a cartoon strip “Prairie Dog Express” and self syndicated it in Canada and the U.S. On New Year’s Eve 1990, he cartooned the year’s events on a performance mural at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

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Editorial cartoon:

Portfoolio 7: The Year in Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Charles Gordon. Macmillan of Canada, 1991.

SOURCE:

Article book:

Portfoolio 7: The Year in Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Charles Gordon. Macmillan of Canada, 1991: “Curt Shoultz”: 187.

GALLERY:

 Portfoolio 7: 187.

 

SHIELDS George 

This cartoonist for the Evening Telegram [Toronto] was born in Toronto in 1872. At age fourteen years, he began as a printer’s devil at the Evening Telegram and later became a cartoonist there for sixty-two years. He was elected to the Toronto City Council in 1923 and to the Ontario Provincial Legislature in 1926.

A staunch Conservative, he was critical of both Laurier for his failure to build a Canadian navy in support of Britain and his Reciprocity Bill and of William Lyon Mackenzie King. He produced a booklet of cartoons highly critical of Mackenzie King’s “five cent speech, during the 1930 federal election. He visited Britain in 1910, where he watched and cartooned the Parliamentary debate over the veto power of the House of Lords. Shields signed his cartoons with a graphic of one shield in the shadow of another.

He died in 1952.

SOURCE:

Article book:

The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed., P. Desbarates & T. Mosher. McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1979:  74, 250,

 Article periodical:

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

 

 

SHERWOOD Stewart 

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Front Page Challenge: 25^th Anniversary. Writ., Alex Barris. Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Corp., 1981.

 

SHERIDAN COLLEGE                                                                                                       Location: Oakville, Ontario

In 1968, George Martsegis founded the animation program.

SOURCE:

Article periodical:

Shift, July 1997: “The Great Animation Conspiracy”: 42.

SHECTER Ed 

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Content story:

Joke Comics, 8, no date: “Marvo: Espionage Agent”.

SHAW David-john

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Book front:

The poems of earle birney: new Canadian library, 6. Writ., Earle Birney. McClelland & Stewart Ltd.,  1969.

Dust jacket  front:

Whirligig. Writ., E. Buckler. McClelland & Stewart, 1977.

Dust jacket wrap around:

Touch: selected poems 1960-1970. Writ., George Bowering. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1971.

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content:

Peter Gzowski’s Book About This Country In The Morning. Ed., Peter Gzowski. Hurtig Publishers, 1974: 4, 5, 6/7, 26, 32, 58, 65, 97, 112/113, 125, 129, 132, 150/151, 155, 175, 177, 179, 185, 186, 199, 208, 218, 223, 227, 228.

Peter Gzowski’s Spring Tonic. Ed., Peter Gzowski. Hurtig Publishers, 1979: 28, 34, 44/45, 68, 75, 136, 151, 174, 200, 205.

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content & Cover dust jacket:

Colombo’ws Little Book Of Canadian Proverbs, Graffiti Limericks & Other Vital Matters. Ed., John Robert Colombo. Hurtig Publishers, 1975.

 Content  journalism text & Cover book front:

The Wit & Wisdom of Bob Edwards. Ed., Hugh Dempsey. Hurtig Publishers, 1976.

Content  journalism text & Cover dust jacket front:

Saturday Night At The Bagel Factory and Other Montreal Stories. Writ., Don Bell. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1972.

GALLERY:

 The Wit & Wisdom Of Bob Edwards: Front cover.

 Peter Gzowski’s Spring Tonic, 1979, 68.

 Peter Gzowski’s Spring Tonic, 1979: 136

SHATAN 

Signature of a writer for Canadian Hero comics.

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Content biography:

Canadian Heroes, 1-6, Apr.1943: “Lieut. Jean Brillant V.C., M.C.” Illus., Hillenbrand: 5-8.

SHAPIRO Robert

He has written “Harper’s In Hell” for Wattpad.

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Content story:

 Toronto Comics vol., 2, Ed., Steve Andrews. Toronto Comics Anthology, May 2015: “Sultan Of Hanlon’s Point.” Illus., Nicole Trudel: 172-181.

Toronto Comics, vol. 3, Ed., Steve Andrews. Toronto Comics Anthology, May 2016: “A Night To Remember.” Illus., Christopher Yao: 142-151.

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Article book:

Toronto Comics vol., 2, Ed., S. Andrews. Toronto Comics Anthology, May 2015: “Robert Shapiro”: 197.

SHANNON J. Harrison 

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Content drawings:

Peter Gzowski’s Spring Tonic. Ed., Peter Gzowski. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1979: 119, 148, 152.