LACROIX Mario

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content cartoon editorial:

Caricature . Cartoons Canada. Ed., Terry Mosher. Linda Leith Publishing, 2012: 33.

 

LACHINE Paul

Born 1965 in Chatham Ontario.

He was an editorial cartoonist and illustrator for the Chatham Daily News. He also worked for two weekly newspapers and freelanced editorial cartoons to the London Free Press and the Whig Standard {Kingston]. By 1997, his work had expanded to appear in twenty dailies across Canada and the U.S. including The Ottawa Citizen, The Vancouver Sun, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Times Post and The Washington Post.

In the 1990’s, his illustrations appeared in the Toronto Star, and in National Post publications, for example he was occasional illustrator for the feature “Bedtime Story” which appeared in the  Expositor [Brantford]. In the first decades of the 21^st century his work continued to appear in these publication.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content cartoon editorial: 

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

 SOURCE:

Article book:

Portfoolio 8: The Year in Canadian Caricature: “Paul Lachine”: 177.

Portfoolio 13: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons: “Paul Lachine”: 151.

GALLERY:

 Portfoolio 8: 177.

      “The Visit.” Writ., Gerald Lewis. The Expositor, 7 Dec. 1992; B10.

 “World-class education, low-class marketing.” Writ., R. M. Warren. The Expositor,           17 Jan. 2015: A9.

 

LACEWOOD PRODUCTIONS INC.

Lacewood Productions based in Ottawa emerged from Hinton Animation Studios after differences between the latter’s co-founders, Kevin Gillis and Sheldon Wiseman, caused a breakup. Sheldon Wiseman, went on to found and become Chairman of Lacewood in 1986

Lacewood’s first productions were The Railway Dragon and its sequel The Birthday Dragon. It went on to produce for television the series Katie & Orbie, plus For Better Or For Worse specials.

It then launched animated feature The Nutcracker Prince, an 8.5 million dollar production. Not wanting a Christmas story, the producers had the original German story translated, got Patricia Watson to write the script and Paul Schibli (a Raccoons director) to direct it. For music it used a full Tchaikovsky score. The score was played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Boris Brott of the famous Hamilton musical family. Two original songs were added, one marked the singing debut of Megan Follows of Anne of Green Gables fame, the other was composed by Kevin Gillis and Jack Lenz of Toronto. The film was jeopardized when Telefilm withdrew its support but Warner Brothers stepped in and saved it. It was released in November 1990.

In 1997 the debt ridden Lacewood Productions was purchased by Paragon Entertainment Corp. In 2000 Paragon Entertainment folded due to debt. Its most of Lacewood’s library was acquired by Amberwood Entertainment

PRODUCT:

DVD ANIMATION:

For Better or For Worse: The Family Album. Celebrity Home Entertainment Inc., 1994. CHE 3215. Part of the Just For Kids Home Video Series. Recorded from a 1992 animated feature based on Lynn Johnston’s cartoon characters, produced for television by Lacewood Productions Inc. and CTV Television Network.

SOURCE:

Article newspaper:

Toronto Star, 11 Nov. 1990: “A Dream Come True: When Telefilm backed out, things looked bleak but a U.S. studio saved the day.” Writ., Sid Adilman..

Internet:

“Lacewood Productions.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacewood_Productions Accessed 24 Sept. 2016.

LaBOUCANE-BENSON Patti

Director of Research, Training and Communication at Native Counselling Services of Alberta. She has a Phd. in Human Ecology focusing on indigenous families.

WORK:

WRITER:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content novel:

The Outside Circle. Illus., Kelly Mellings. House of Anansi Press Inc., 2015.

 SOURCE:

 Article book:

The Outside Circle.  2015: “Patti LaBoucane-Benson.” Back page.

 

WRIGHT Douglas “Doug”

                                    Doug Wright’s Family, v. 2: back cover.

Born 11 August 1917 in Dover, England, son of an Oxford graduate killed in World War One.

He immigrated to Montréal in September 1938, on the promise of job in Sun Life Assurance of Canada’s art department for $90 a month.

In June 1942, he joined the R.C.A.F. and went to Manitoba. During his training he crashed an Avro Anson and after a brief convalescence he was made a navigation instructor at No 1 Central Navigation School in Rivers, Manitoba. His continual sketching caught the eye of an officer in charge of service magazines, and soon Wright was producing “Lord Whiff of Grapeshot” under the pseudonym “Ozzie” for The Station. The war was winding down, and so he was discharged from the R.C.A.F. in August 1945.

Back in civilian life, and working for Sun Life Insurance again, Wright tried to break into  cartooning. He submitted his portfolio to the Montreal Standard, and although Art Director Dick Hersey did not hire him, he began offering Wright illustration jobs which over the course of a couple of years increased in importance and frequency. Finally in May 1948, he quit Sun Life and became a full-time freelancer.

When Jimmie Frise died suddenly 13 June 1948 Wright was asked by Dick Hersy to take over Juniper Junction. Unfortunately, without Frise, Juniper Junction’s readership declined and so it was decided to cancel it. Only a few days before it was finished, Wright received a call from the editor of the Family Herald who wanted it for that publication. Both the Standard and the Family Herald were owned by the Montreal Star.“ Juniper Junction” appeared in that periodical until it ceased publication in September 1968. Wright did not sign the strip for the first five years as he thought the strip belonged to Frise, but finally the Family Herald insisted he sign it which he did with DAW. Interestingly you can see elements of what will become Doug’s own creation “Nipper/Doug Wright’s Family” very early in these “Juniper Junctions”.

About a year after taking over “Juniper Junction”. Wright began a nameless strip inspired by a chance look at a gag cartoon about a youngster in Punch magazine, and an editor’s note suggesting more cartoons about kids would be desirable. Wright, at home that night, created a throw away cartoon about a youngster. It was published, 12 March 1949 as a filler in the Standard. The response, prompted the editors to ask Wright to do one every other week, and then due to its popularity once a week. The strangest part of this cartoon was that Wright was still a bachelor. He would not marry Phyllis Sanford, till September 4, 1952.The new feature was named “Nipper” by the editor.

In 1951, The Standard facing stiff completion from the Star Weekly changed its format from weekly magazine to a magazine supplement inserted into other major newspapers across Canada and its name to Weekend. “Nipper” survived this transition and reached an even larger audience.

In 1954, the Montreal Star, the Weekend’s owner, invited Doug to do weekly editorial cartoons filling in for Ed McNally, In these cartoons we get a whole different world view from him. He attacked everything from city corruption to social attitudes.  Brad MacKay has likened him to the great British cartoonist Carl Giles, who apparently was a favourite of Doug’s. It was about this time that Doug reduced “Juniper Junction” from a full page cartoon to a half page.

In June 1966, he and his family moved to Burlington Ontario. On 7 January 1967, a new feature called “Doug Wright’s Family appeared in a new weekly supplement called The Canadian. he now drew editorial cartoons for the Spectator [Hamilton], filling in for  Blaine MacDonald. However, these cartoons were never political commentary like his Montreal Star work. Rather they were a humorous look at every day people in everyday situations. His satire was reserved for a daily panel he created called “Max and Mini” or alternately “Tickytacky Township”.

Doug Wright suffered a stroke in March 1980 which effectively ended his cartooning career. On 3 January 1983, he suffered a second stroke and died on 4 January just short of 66 years old.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content cartoon editorial & Cover book wrap around:

Doug Wright: Editorial Cartoons. The Spectator [Hamilton], 1973.

Content strip & Cover book front:

The Collected Doug Wright. Ed., Seth (G. Gallant) & Brad MacKay. Drawn &  Quarterly, Apr. 2009.

Doug Wright’s Family, vol. 2. The Canadian Magazine Readers Service, Oct. 1975.

 Content strip & Cover book front & back:

Doug Wright’s Family. Canadian Homes Service, 1971.

Nipper 1963-1964. Drawn & Quarterly, Oct. 2010.

Nipper 1965-1966. Drawn & Quarterly, Aug. 2011.

Nipper 1967-1968. Drawn & Quarterly, Dec. 2012.

PERIODICAL TEXT:

 Content strip cartoon full page:

Family Herald & Weekly Star: Canada’s National Farm Magazine, …: “Juniper Junction”: …
25 January 1950: 36. 8 February 1950: 42. 18 May 1950: 44.	18 January 1951: 38. 15 February 1951: 38. 22 February 1951: 44.	22 March 1951: 42. 10 April 1952: 44.	25 December 1952: 40. 17 December 1953: 32.

Content strip cartoon half page:

Family Herald & Weekly Star: Canada’s National Farm Magazine, …: “Juniper Junction”: …
29 April 1954: 36. 12 May 1954: 38.	8 July 1954: 28. 13 January 1955: 34.	21 April 1955: 44.	15 December 1955: 40.

 

Family Herald:  Canada’s National Farm Magazine, …: “Juniper Junction”: …
31 January 1957: 39. 2 May 1957: 30. 30 May 1957: 30. 27 June 1957: 24. 21 November 1957: 32	6 February 1958: 32. 8 May 1958: 36. 5 June 1958: 26. 17 July 1958: 26. 24 July 1958: 26.	19 March 1959: 36. 2 June 1960: 22. 23 February 1961: 36. 20 April 1961: 34. 11may 1961: 30. 15 June 1961: 39.	11 April 1963: 44. 4 July 1963: 39. 26 September 1963: 69. 10 October 1963: 78. 19 December 1963: 28. 17 December 1964: 14.

ILLUSTRATOR:

 BOOK TEXT:

Content autobiography Cover dust jacket:

And Now . . . Here’s Max. Writ., Max Ferguson. McGraw- Hill Co. of Canada Ltd., 1967.

PERIODICAL TEXT ANTHOLOGY:

Content advertising:

Weekend, 9-16, 1959 April 18: For Simonize Floor Wax: 65.

SOURCE:

Article book:

The Collected Doug Wright. Drawn & Quarterly, Apr. 2009: “                                                       “Afterword.” Writ., G. Gallant (Seth): 22-50.                                                                       “Mr. Wright.” Writ., Brad MacKay: 22-50.

 The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1979: 254.

 Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years …. Drawn & Quarterly, May 2015:                               “Drawing From Real Life: an appreciation.” Writ., Brad McKay: 290-291.                           “On Doug Wright.” Writ., Gregory Gallant (Seth): 292-297.

 Nipper 1963-1964. Drawn & Quarterly, Oct. 2010. “Mr. Doug Wright.” Writ., Brad MacKay.

Nipper 1965-1966. Drawn & Quarterly, Aug. 2011. “Mr. Doug Wright.” Writ., MacKay.

Nipper 1967-1968.: Drawn & Quarterly, Dec. 2012: “Mr. Doug Wright.” Writ., MacKay.

Article periodical:

Now and Then Times, 1-1, Summer 1972: “Doug Wright.” Writ., Dave Sim. 17+.

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

GALLERY:

 Doug Wright Editorial Cartoons, 1973, back & front covers.

 

WYATT Michael

WORK:

ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content history & Cover book front & back :

Canada at War. Writ, Paul Keery. Douglas & McIntyre/ D&M Publishers Incorp., 2012.

Content novel & Cover book front & back :

The Night Wanderer. Writ., Drew Haden Taylor. Adapt., Alison Kooistra. Annick press, Jan. 2020.

GALLERY:

 The Night Wanderer. Jan. 2020: Front cover.

 

WOW COMICS

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BLACK FALCON [THE]

CAPTAIN RED THORTON

CLIP CURTIS

CRASH CARSON

DART DARING

DOC STERN/MR MONSTER

DREAMER [THE]

GUY POWERS SECRET AGENT

JEFF WARING

OUT OF THE WOODS

PENGUIN [THE]

PHANTOM RIDER [THE]

RICCO VEZ

SHORTY

WHIZ WALLACE

WOODY & THE WOLF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WORTON Zach

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content novel & Cover book front & back:

Charley Butters: The Disappearance of …. Conundrum Press, 2015.

Charley Butters: The Search for…. Conundrum Press, 2016.

Charley Butters: The Curse Of …. Conundrum Press, 2018.

The Klondike. Drawn & Quarterly, May 2011.

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

 Cover & Content:

 Story:

The Weird World of Lagoola Gardiner. Fantagraphics, 2018.

“The Weird World of Lagoola Gardiner.”                                                                  “Locke Hardy, PI in A Rabbit in the Hand Of Worthless.”                                        “Lil Lagoola And Pals: The Deamon Of Orr Bay.”

 PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

 Content:

 Story:

“The North Wing: Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit Graphic Novels Episode Three, Sheila Watson’s, ‘The Double Hook’, as Adapted by Zach Worton.” Canadian Notes & Queries, 82, Spring/Summer 2011: 70-71.

GALLERY:

 Klondike, May 2011: Front cover.

 The Disappearance of Charley Butters. 2015: Front cover.

 The Weird World of Lagoola Gardiner. Fantagraphics, 2018.: Front cover.

WORLD OF TOMORROW

As the title suggests Joseph Hillenbrand was predicting what the world would look like after the war much in the way that popular science books of the time predicted the future. An interesting aspect of this feature was “Dream Dept” the feature’s interactive portion in which the author invited readers to send in their ideas about the future which then Hillenbrand turned into drawings. It was another example of Educational Projects attempting to engage its readers into participating.

 MEDIUM:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:                                                                            Published by Educational Projects.

Content serial Information:

Canadian Heroes…: “World of Tomorrow…”:… Cart., Joseph B.Hillebrand. Black & white

3-3, Feb., 1944: “Transportation”: 30-34 3-4, March 1944: “Education”: 34-36. 3-5, April 1944: “Entertainment”: 43-46. 3-6, May 1944: “Food-Clothing”: 60-63. 4-1, June 1944: “Home – Life Pt. 1”: 40-43. 4-2, July 1944: “Home – Life Pt. 2”: 38-40. 4-6, January 1945: “Power”: 21-23. 5-3, June 1945: “Dream Dept”: 42-44.

Canadian Heroes, 5-4, July 1945: “World of Tomorrow.” Cart. & Compiler, Joseph B. Hillebrand: 19-22.

Canadian Heroes 5-5, September 1945: “World of Tomorrow: Dream Dep’t Special.” Contributions from readers: 22-25.

GALLERY:

 “World of Tomorrow: Home-Life Pt. 1.” Cart., J. Hillenbrand. Canadian Heroes, 4-1, June 1944: 41.

WORDSMITH

                                      Left to right: Wordsmith concept originator & writer Dave Darrigo; Wordsmith illustrator, Rick Taylor; From photo taken by Rick’s wife, Krista, probably behind Dragon Lady Comics in the alley north of Queen Street West in 1986 or 1987.

“Wordsmith” is one of the more interesting features to come out of the 1980’s.  Writer Dave Darrigo  originally conceived it as a text novel, but then changed it to a graphic format. As manger of the retail outlet Dragon Lady, on Queen Street West in Toronto, Darrigo met Rick Taylor, saw his graphic work and invited him to collaborate on an unrelated graphic story “The Big Bounce”. This led him to invite Rick to do a four page “Wordsmith” episode he had written to illustrate the concept he had earlier presented to Deni Loubert. This sample was shown to Deni and Dave Sim.  They decided to publish a periodical featuring the character. But, all was not well at Aardvark-Vanaheim. Deni and Dave broke up both as spouses and business partners. Deni moved to Long Beach, California in the U.S.A., organized Renegade Press and the “Wordsmith” series was published by this company.

The serial which followed the flow of “Clay Washburn’s” life, was published in twelve issues from August 1985 to January 1988. In 1990 it was gathered into a two volume book by publisher Caliber Press.

In the same year, Darrigo now owner of the publishing company Special Studio, again teamed up with Taylor with the intention of creating a series of periodicals called The Heroes from Wordsmith. It was to feature the stories created by “Washburn”. Unfortunately only one issue was published.

“Wordsmith”is a fiction series that focuses not on the fantastic lives of  pulp heroes but rather  on the life of  the writer who creates them. It was the result of Darrigo’s research into the  pulp fiction era which had its heyday between World Wars 1 & 2. But it is also clear that Darrigo identified with the protagonist “Washburn”. The serial is clearly not autobiographical but it is reflective of many of the attitudes and concerns and perhaps experiences as a writer of Darrigo himself. Most interesting about these stories is the way that Darrigo juxtapositions the pulp stories written by “Wahburn” next to events in Washburn’s life in order to show the relationships between the two. Sometimes real events inspire the story. Sometimes Washburn reflects on how poorly the stories reflect reality.

Illustrator Rick Taylor was responsible for the visual aspect of the series.  His characters are based on photos of actual persons. Clay Washburn is based on Rick himself. “Vince Gallo” is based on Dave. As a result we have this hybrid character whose visual aspect is based on the illustrator and his inner life is based on the writer. Other characters based on members of the cartoon community were “Eric Hassel” (Anthony van Bruggen), Asa Cohen” (Mel Taylor). Mel Taylor has mentioned other models. He was also the model for the hero in “Cactus Express”. The “screaming young maiden” was Mel’s downstairs neighbor. The cab driver in issue 10 was based on Harry Kremer, the iconic owner of Now & Then Books. Harry’s mother Mrs. Kremer was “Asa’s mother”. “Clay’s wife and daughter” were based on Rick’s sister-in-law and niece.

MEDIUM:

 BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content story & Cover book front & back:

Wordsmith Book 1. Writ., Dave Darrigo. Illus., R.G. Taylor. Caliber Press, 1990. (Collects issues 1-6).

Wordsmith Book 2. Writ., Dave Darrigo. Illus., R.G. Taylor. Caliber Press, 1990. (Collects issues 7-12).

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content essay text:

Wordsmith, 1, Aug.1985: “Long Live The Pulps, Part 1.”Writ., Dave Darrigo..

Wordsmith, 2, Oct.1985: “Long Live The  Pulps, Part 2.” Writ., Dave Darrigo. 22.

Wordsmith, 8, Feb.1987: “The Pulp File: Man of Tomorrow.” Writ.,Don Hutchison. 26-27.

Content portrait:

Wordsmith,…:  “Pulp pin up.” Illus. Steve LeBlanc. Renegade Press
2, Oct.1985: 23 3, Dec.1985: 23.	5, May 1986: 28.	7, Nov.1986:  24.	8, Feb.1987: 28.

Wordsmith, 7, Nov.1986: Renegade Press.                                                                                    “Pulp Portrait: Jules de Grandin.” Illus. Ai Davidson: 26.                                                    “A Wordsmith Mini-Portfolio.” R. G. Taylor. 27-32.

Content serial & Cover front: 

Wordsmith, Writ., Dave Darrigo. Illus. R. G. Taylor. Let., Les Taylor. Renegade Press.

1, Aug.1985: “Chapter 1, Tough Men Tender Moments.” “Chapter 2, Deathtraps and Breadlines.” 2, Oct.1985: “A Dash of Chaos, A Pinch of Order.” 1-21. 3, Dec.1985: “File It Under P.”: 1-21. 4, Feb.1986: “Jimmy Carter.” :1-28. Reference Photographer, Krista. Taylor 5, May 1986: “Even Heroes Have To Take A Joke.”: 1-25. 6, Aug.1986.: “Haunted By Ghosts.”: 1-32. 7, Nov.1986: “ Tis The Season To Be Jolly.”: 1-21. 8, Feb.1987: “Romance and Real People.”: 1-25. 9, May 1987: “The Cactus Express by Eric Redwood.”: 1-32. 10, Aug. 1987: “Castles In Spain.”: 1-32. 11, Nov. 1987: “H’Lo Joe, How Goes The Battle?”: 1-32. 12, Jan. 1988 : “Old Dogs and New Tricks.”: 1-25. “The Last Word.”: 32.

Content story Cover front:

Heroes From Wordsmith, 1, May 1990. Writ., Dave Darrigo. Illus. R. G. Taylor. Special Studio. “Hunter Hawke: The Volcano Gun.” “The New Flying Tigers: The Big Bounce.” Special Studio. Previously appeared in Quadrant, 1-6, no date.

SOURCE:

 Article periodical:

Comics Feature, 56, June 1987: “Wordsmith.” Writ., Unidentified: 10-11.

Correspondence:

Emails from Dave Darrigo to Robert MacMillan, 3 Sept. 2016.

GALLERY:

          Illus., R.G. Taylor. Wordsmith, 1, August 1985: Front cover.

      Illus., R.G. Taylor. Wordsmith, 5, May 1986: Front cover. Note the persons behind the character heads on the cover. Top “Vince Gallo” (Dave Darrigo), below “Eric Hassel” (Anthony van Bruggen), “bottom Asa Cohen” (Mel Taylor)

       Illus., R.G. Taylor. Wordsmith, 12, Jan 1988: Front cover. Note the juxtaposition between the fantasies that “Wordsmith” writes and his real life.

          Illus., R.G. Taylor. Wordsmith Book 1, 1990: Front cover. “Wordsmith” and his characters”.