LASER POLICE

MEDIUM:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content story:

The Incredible Conduit, 2, May 2011: “Laser Police Brainy Freeze.” Writ., Mike Poirier. Illus., Tony Gray & Marc Dionne. Col., Jolie Inthavong & Tony Gray.

LARRY BRANNON

This comic strip created by James Winslow Mortimer and syndicated by the Toronto Star Syndicate ran for eight years from November 14 1960 to October 12 1968 in as many as 60 newspapers.

Mortimer left “David Crane”, the previous strip he had created to launch “Larry Brannon”. Actually the idea had come to Mortimer before he started working on “David Crane”.

“Larry Brannon” was  a twenty-eight year old trouble shooter for a mining company a “dynamic young Canadian in a dynamic Canadian environment.”

SOURCE:

Article periodical:

inks: Cartoon & Comic Arts Studies, 4-2, May 1997:  “An Introduction to the Canadian Newspaper Comic.” Writ., Kenneth Barker:18-25.

Maclean’s, 28 Jan.1961: “The small but lively propaganda war of comic strips”: 54.

Article newspaper:

Expositor [Brantford], 10 Nov.1960:  “Adventurer ‘Larry Brannon’ Is Brainchild of Hamiltonian.”.

Hamilton Spectator, circa. 1960: “Ex-Hamilton Artist To Draw Spec Strip.”.

GALLERY:

Expositor [Brantford], 16 January 1961: 19.

Toronto Daily Star, 28 February 1961: 35.

Expositor [Brantford], 9 August 1962

Expositor [Brantford], 25 November 1963: 23.

Expositor [Brantford], 25 November 1963: 21.

Expositor [Brantford], 29 July 1968: 21.

LARTER John

                                            Portfoolio 87: 206.

Born 1950 in Swift Current Saskatchewan.

From 1969 to 1971, he worked for The Roughneck, an oil industry magazine that was also the training ground for Edd Uluschak and Vance Rodewalt. From 1972 to 1974, he worked for various Los Angeles U.S.A. publications.

He returned to Canada and in 1974 began doing editorial cartoons for the Herald [Lethbridge]. In 1977 he joined the staff of the Edmonton Sun. In 1980 he moved to the Toronto Star as editorial cartoonist. In August 1989, moved to the Calgary Sun to fill the same position. In 2001, he was let go in the Post Media cutbacks. At least over the period 2005/2010, his work was appearing in the Calgary Herald.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content cartoon editorial:

The Art of Political Cartooning in Canada/1980. Ed., Steve Bradley. For., Robert LaPalme.Virgo Press, Oct. 1980: 45, 53, 75, 144, 148, 151, 155, 166, 173, 192, 204, 205, 212.

Best Canadian Political Cartoons, 1983. Ed., N.M. Stahl. For., David Rosen. McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Sept. 1983: 39, 69, 81, 96, 100, 151, 154, 164 .

Best Canadian Political Cartoons, 1984. Ed., N.M. Stahl. For.,Robert LaPalme. McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Sept. 1984: 2, 22, 59, 90, 93, 94, 97, 167.

Caricature . Cartoons Canada. Ed., Terry Mosher. Linda Leith Publishing, 2012: 60.

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.

SOURCE:

Article book:

The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1979: 242.

Portfoolio, The Year 85 In Canadian Caricature.1985: “John Larter”: 208.

Portfoolio 6: The Year in Canadian Caricature.1990: “John Larter”: 179.

Portfoolio 22: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. 2006: “John Larter”: 153.

GALLERY:

Toronto Star, 7 Nov. 1981.

Portfolio 22: 183.

Portfoolio 25: 167.

LAQUERRE Joseph

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content cartoon editorial:

Caricature . Cartoons Canada. Ed., Terry Mosher. Montréal: Linda Leith Publishing, 2012: 75.

LAPP David

He graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design and the University of Western Ontario with a BA in Psychology. Children of the Atom was first serialized in Western University’s The Gazette. Subsequently from 1998 to 2003 it appeared weekly in the Georgia Straight of Vancouver. Finally it appeared in book form in 2010.

From about 2000, he has taught cartooning at the Art Gallery of Ontario and Avenue Roads Art School. In addition to Children of the Atom, he has published Drop-in, and Around Here (2012). His work  has since Summer 2001 appeared regularly in Taddle Creek magazine published by Conan Tobias and was chosen for Best American Comics series in 2010 and 2011.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content memoire & Cover book wrap around:

The Field. Conundrum Press. 2024.

Content novella & Cover book front & back:

Children of the Atom. Conundrum Press. 2010.

Drop-in. Conundrum Press, 2008.

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

 Content story & Cover book front & back:

 People Around Here. Conundrum Press. 2012.

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC COLLECTION (Mini Comix):

 Content  story & Cover front:

 The Hood, 1, July 1991: “Don’t Lick The Frogs.”                                                                                                        ”little bothers the man with perfect hair”: Back cover.

The Hood, 2, August 1991: “Don’t Lick The Frogs 2.”                                                                                                    “Unholy Infant Marauders from Outer Space”: Back cover.

The Hood, October 1991, 92of 108: “Dammit Hood! Whar’re Muh Eyes?”                                                                                  “Stone Dance”: Back cover.

PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story graphic:

Descant, 164, Spring 2014: “Intersections”: 206-209.

Taddle Creek, IV-2, Summer 2001: “Bug House”: 18.

Taddle Creek, XII-2, Summer 2009: “mouse girl”: 32-33.

Taddle Creek, XVII-2, 32, Spring 2014: “Dirty Drawings”: 2.

Taddle Creek,…. “People Around Here …”: …Vitalis Publishing. Black & white.

VII-2, Summer 2004: “Green Room”: 40. VIII-1, Christmas 2004: “Jet Fuel Coffee Shop”: 48. VIII-2, Summer 2005: “York Square Lobby”: 48. IX-1, Christmas 2005: “Cameron House”: 46. IX-2, Summer 2006: “Isabella Street”: 48. X-1, Christmas 2006: “Avenue Road Art School: 46. X-2, Summer 2007: “On The Subway”: 44. XI-1, Christmas 2007: “Taddle Creek Barbeque”: 72. XI-2, Summer 2008: My Town Restaurant”: 48. XII-1, Halloween 2008: “Art Gallery Of Ontario Summer                                            Camp”: 52. XIII-1, 23, Christmas 2009: “College Park”: 52. XIII-2, 24, Summer 2010: “Port Burwell Ontario”: 56. XIV-1, 25, Christmas 2010: “Isabella Street”: 48. XIV-2, 26, Summer 2011: “Manulife Building”: 44. XV-1, 27, Christmas 2011: “ Sad Music”: 52. XV-2, 28, Summer 2012: “Toronto Humane Society”: XVI-1, 29, Winter 2012/13: 60.

30, Summer 2013: “Barn Restaurant”: 48. 31, Winter 2013/14: “dreams around here: 48. 34, Winter 2014/15: “matchbox”. 35, Summer 2015: “mom”: 44. 36, Winter 2015/16: “missing”: 11. 37, Summer 2016: “mom dreams”: 48. 38, Winter 2016/17: “Dad’s Coins”: 44. 39, Summer 2017: “Canadian Cartooning”: 60. 40, Winter 2018: “Fall Colours”: 48. 41, Summer 2018: “Girl’s Washroom”: 48. 42, Winter 2018/2019: “Touch Wood”: 48. 43, Summer 2019: “Fibroid”: 96. 44, Winter 2019/20: “Old”: 40. 45, Summer 2020: “What if he sees me?”: 36. 46, Winter 2020/21: “If You Love Something: 48. 47C, Holiday 2021: “Same”: 47.

ILLUSTRATOR:

PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content:

Activity:

Taddle Creek, XVII-3, 33, Summer 2014. “Dave Lapp’s Kids’ Colouring Contest”: 32.

Essay:

Taddle Creek, XVI-1, 29, Winter 2012/13: “This Ain’t Your Hippie Jesus’s Bible.” Writ., Jeet Heer: 38-45.

Interview:

Taddle Creek, XIV-1, 25, Christmas 2010: “Comic Therapy: Interviewer, Peter Birkemoe: 23, 24, 25.

SOURCE:

Article book:

Children of the Atom. Conundrum Press, 2010. “Biography.”: Back cover.

Article periodical:

Descant, 164, Spring 2014: 252.

Taddle Creek, XIV-1, 25, Christmas 2010: “Comic Therapy: Interviewer., Peter Birkemoe: 22-25.

GALLERY:

                 The Hood, 1, July 1991: Front cover.

              The Hood, 2, August 1991: Back cover.

Taddle Creek, VII-2, Summer 2004: “Green Room”: 40.

Taddle Creek XI-2, Summer 2008: My Town Restaurant”: 48.

Children of the Atom, 2010: Back cover.

Taddle Creek, XIX-1, 36, Winter 2015/16: “missing”: 11.

Taddle Creek, 42, Winter 2018/2019: “Touch Wood”: 48.

LAPALME Robert 

“I don’t like everything I’ve drawn. Once I took 7,553 of my originals and filled up a compost heap with them. Some day it should make an interesting archeological dig.”                                                                                                                                The Hecklers: 242.

Robert LaPalme, was considered the Picasso of Canadian editorial cartoonists, (Hustak), and the leading cartoonist in Francophone Canadian in the 1940’s and 1950’s. (Hecklers) He worked for every leading Francophone newspaper, and for 25 years organized and was curator of the prestigious Le Salon International de la Caricature/Salon of Cartoons in Montréal. Because of his connections with cartoonists around the world he became known as “the ambassador of political cartoonists.” (242)

Born 14 April 1908, in Montréal, LaPalme spent his early years on a farm in Alberta, but returned to Québec in 1925. At seventeen years old he applied to l’Ecole des Beaux Arts but was refused, because it was considered he lacked talent. This is rather strange considering his later achievements.

He worked at odd jobs, a crucifix maker, a florist and an usher. All the while he sketched in his spare time. His brother bought him a set of drafting instruments, and with them he created twelve geometric caricatures of politicians that L’Almanach de la langue française published in 1933.

His first job as a cartoonist was drawing daily front page cartoons at $17 per week for the intellectual and political daily L’Ordre. As a result of this he became a popular figure in the société café of Montréal.

In 1934, a Paris newspaper, published some of the L’Almanach de la langue française caricatures, and a New York magazine inquired about commissioning some drawings. As a result LaPalme moved to New York where he worked for two years, as a freelance illustrator for Stage, The Nation, Ringmaster and The Philadelphia Ledger.

In 1937 he returned to Canada and began working for Le Droit in Ottawa but in 1938, he moved to Québec City to cartoon for l’Evenment Journal, l’Action Catholique and La Patrie. Ironically, about the same time, this l’Ecole des Beaux Arts reject became an assistant professor of art history at Univarsité de Laval.

In 1940, he was commissioned by army commandant Adolphe Dansereau to do murals for the drill hall. LaPalme prepared twelve cartoon paintings for the murals but before they could be executed Dansereau was replaced by Brigadier General Georges Vanier, who shocked by the cartoons cancelled the project. LaPalme took the cartoons to a small gallery in New York where they were praised in reviews. These works then returned to Canada to be exhibited for six weeks at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, and a Toronto Art Gallery. They were then included in an exhibition of Canadian war art in Brazil. Finally, they were shown in Rome and Paris where the exhibition was opened by then Ambassador Georges Vanier, apparently unaware these were the paintings and artist he had originally rejected.

In 1943, LaPalme returned to Montréal to work for Le Canada, although he continued to produce cartoons for L’Événement Journal, L’Action catholique and La Patrie. During this time he developed an international reputation as both a cartoonist and painter. He left Montréal for two years to study art in New York, exhibited at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, at galleries in Toronto, Paris, Rome, and Rio de Janeiro.

In 1950 he joined as editorial cartoonist Le Devoir, which he called “… Québec’s last fighting newspaper…”. (242) It was there he made his reputation as a ground-breaking cartoonist. Here he continued to use his pen to conduct vitriolic attacks on Québec premier Maurice Duplessis, and for his efforts won a National Newspaper Award in 1952. It would appear this vitriol had an added edge caused by disillusion. According to The Hecklers, LaPalme enthusiastically supported Duplessis when he came to power in 1936 as a reformer. In addition, he was personally flattered that Duplessis commissioned him to do a cartoon of Ernest Lapointe, an important Federal politician, as a cracked chamber pot, for which Duplessis paid $25 for the original. LaPalme later recalled: “A long time after I grew up, the $25 he gave me was the image that made me understand the way he played politics. He bought people. I did everything to down grade that man.” (103-104)

Lapalme entered television as drawing caricatures and making commentaries. He joined La Presse in 1959 but soon moved to Le Nouveau journal to join the new editor and his old friend Jean-Louis Gagnon. It folded in 1962. In 1963 a turning point in his career occurred when he was appointed founding director of the annual Le Salon International de la Caricature/Salon of Caricature and Cartoon.

In 1963 it attracted 1200 entrants from sixty nations and later became the largest competition for professional editorial cartoonists of its kind in the world. It was held in Montréal annually from 1963 to 1988. In 1967 LaPalme painted three murals for the Expo World’s Fair which now hang in Montréal metro stations.

In 1972 LaPalme was made a member of the Order of Canada for his contribution to Canadian art.

He died 19 June 1997 in Montréal.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content cartoon editorial:

 Caricature . Cartoons Canada. Ed., Terry Mosher. Linda Leith Publishing, 2012: 9.

Portfoolio 9: The Year in Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Charles Gordon. Macmillan of Canada, 1993.

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

 Content cartoon editorial & Cover book front & back:

 La Palme: Les Vingt Premiers Annees du Caricaturiste Canadien/The First 20 Years Of The Canadian Caricaturist. Montréal: Le Cercle du Livre de France, 1950.

ILLUSTRATOR:

DICSC AUDIO 33 RPM:

 Art Work:

Le Trio Lyric chante Lione Daunais. Perf., Le Trio Lyrique. Société Nouvelle d’Enregistrement, 1984. SNE-513.

SOURCE:

Book:

La Palme: Les Vingt Premiers Annees du Caricaturiste Canadien/The First 20 Years Of The Canadian Caricaturist. “Introduction.” Writ., Jean-Louis Gagnon. Trans., Irène & Charles Spilka. Le Cercle du Livre de France, 1950: 9-15. Bilingual text.

Article book:

The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1979: 100-105, 241-242.

Article periodical:

“Political Geometry: The Art of Robert LaPalme.” Writ., David Rosen. Target, Summer 1985. First appeared in Open City, a weekly in Montréal.

 Internet:

“Robert LaPalme.”  https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/robert-lapalme                                                                             Accessed  20 March. 2013.

GALLERY:

                                                                  A self portrait. La Palme: Les Vingt Premiers Annees du Caricaturiste Canadien/The First 20 Years Of The Canadian Caricaturist. 1950: Back cover.

                    La Palme: Les Vingt Premiers Annees du Caricaturiste Canadien/The First 20 Years Of The Canadian Caricaturist. 1950: Front cover.

LANKIN Donald A.

WORK:

ILLUSTRATOR:

DISC AUDIO 33RPM: 

Art work:

Home for the Holidays. Spitfire Band. Canadian Talent Library/RCA Inc., 1982. RCA-EP-102.

 

LARKIN Ryan

Born 1943 in Montréal.

He studied at Montréal’s École du Musée des beaux-arts to be a painter but switched to film after taking an animation workshop with Norman McLaren who became his mentor, and oversaw his first two films Syrinx (1965) and Cityscape (1966).

He joined the National Film Board, in 1964 and won Canadian Film Special Awards for Syrinx in 1966, and Walking in 1968, but his career was destroyed by alcoholism and drug addiction. He left the N.F.B. in 1970.

He was the subject of an animated film Ryan (2004) by Chris Landreth which won a Genie Award and an Oscar in 2004. After release of the film Ryan experienced a revival in his career but died in 2007.

SOURCE:

Article book:

Take One’s Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Ed., Wyndham Wise. University of Toronto Press 2001: “Larkin Ryan.” 123.

a handbook of Canadian film. Writ., Eleanor Beattie. Peter Martin Associates Ltd/Take  One, 1973: “Ryan Larkin.” 174.

 

LAPALME Ginette

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK TEXT:

Content story:

Descant, 164, Spring 2014: “Poke”: 200-205.

LANGLOIS, Drue

Using the Captain Canuck character, Winnipeg artist. and his brother writer Riel Langlois, co-created the serial & story Captain Canuck Unholy War.

WORK:

ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content novel:

Captain Canuck: Unholy War. ”. Chapter House Comics, 2015. A collection of the periodicals below.

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content serial:

Captain Canuck – Unholy War …: ““Captain Canuck: Heart of Gold…” Writ., Riel Langlois.

1, Oct. 2004: “…” … Col., Greg Waller. Let., Bryan Senka. 2, Nov.2004: “…Misguided Angel.” Col., Laurie E. Smith. Let., Blue Kang. 3, Dec.2004: “…If I Had a Rocket Launcher.” Col., Laurie E. Smith. Let., Blue Kang. 4, Sept. 2007: “…All Good Things.” Col., L. E. Smith (1-6), Greg Waller (7-12) & D. Langlois 13-24).                                                                             Let., Blue Kang.

Cover:

Front: Captain Canuck – Unholy War, no. 4, Sept. 2007.

INKER:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Cover front:

Captain Canuck – Unholy War, 1, Oct. 2004. Pen., R. Comely

Captain Canuck – Unholy War, 2, Nov.2004. Pen., Dave Ross.

CO-CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content story:

Hermodities. Conundrum Press, 2011: …
“Capistrano”. Co-car., Temple Bates.	“Sweet Peel”. Co-car., Temple Bates.