POPLAK Richard

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WRITER:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content biography:

Kenk: A Graphic Portrait. Produced and Conceived, Alex Jansen. Filmed and Designed, Jason Gilmore. Illus. Nick Marinkovich. Pop Sandbox Inc., 2010.

 

POP SANDBOX INC.                                                                                                          Location: P.O. Box 16017, 1260 Dundas Street West, Toronto.                                        Producer: Alex Jansen.

PRODUCT:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Biography:

Kenk: A Graphic Portrait. Writ., Richard Poplak. Conceived, Alex Jansen. Filmed and Designed, Jason Gilmore. Illus. Nick Marinkovich. Toronto: Pop Sandbox Inc., 2010.

Novel:

The Next Day. Writ., Paul Peterson & Jason Gilmore. Illus., John Porcellino. Pop Sandbox Inc., 2011.

 

POOCH CAFÉ

This funny animal cartoon strip, which first appeared January 2000, was created by Paul Gilligan. and was syndicated by Copely News Service from 2000 to 2003. Then it moved to Universal Press Syndicate in 2003, and by 2004 was appearing in 121 newspapers. It has appeared in the Toronto Star at least from 2006 to the present (2017).

Poncho, the principal character once had a happy one on one relationship with his owner Chazz. Then Chazz married Carmen, a cat lover with five cats. Poncho has now retreated to Pooch Café a kind of coffee shop for dogs. Here he can vent his opinions and discuss his problems and they all can hatch plans against cats. In the panel below you can see “Poncho” coming through the door and his friends, coffee guzzling “Boomer”, the one with the long ears sitting at the bar, Hudson, the Beagle sitting beside “Boomer”, Beaumont, the bar tender and owner of “Pooch Café, and Gus, the Scottish Terrier sitting at the table left).

Gilligan tries to keep the strip focused on the particular dog characters of his creation.

“A rule I’ve had in my mind is that the jokes always have to be dog-centred jokes and true to the characters.” … “In the best-case scenario, I’ve written a joke that’s not only just true of the characters in Pooch Café but only could have been in Pooch Café, where it’s very centred not just to dogs but to the characters in my strip.”

 

MEDIUM:

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content cartoon strip & Cover book front & back:

Pooch Café: All Dogs Naturally Know How To Swim. Car., Paul Gilligan. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003.

SOURCE:

Article newspaper:

 The Expositor [Brantford], 12 December 2022: “Welcome To A Dog’s Life”. Writ., Luke Betts: B3.

Internet:

“Pooch Café.” Wikipedia the free encyclopedia. 20 July 2017. Accessed 27 November 2017.

GALLERY:

Pooch Café: All Dogs Naturally Know How To Swim, 2003: Back cover.

Toronto Star, 8 April 2017: P6.

PONTER James

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BOOK TEXT:

Content novel & Cover dust jacket front:

Scrubs On Skates. Writ., Scott Young. Little Brown & Co. 1952.

POMERLEAU Luc

Born March 1955.

He was editor and BD columnist plus cartoon art director of Solaris North America’s first Francophone science fiction and fantasy magazine. His articles have appeared in both Canadian and European publications.

He was special features editor for Neuvième Art a cable television show dedicated to cartooning.

In 1985, he was a delegate to the largest cartoon festive in the world at Angouleme France.

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WRITER:

BOOK TEXT:

Content essay:

Canuck Comics, Montréal: Matrix Graphic Series, 1986: “Québec Comics: A Short History”: 103-115.

“La BD Québecois: bref historique.”: 117-123.

L’Année de la Bande Dessinée, 82/83. Paris: Temps Futurs, 1982: “Lettre de l’étranger: Québec”: 230-233.

Pour ta Belle Gueule d’Ahuri, v. 2, n. 1, (whole n. 4), City, 1980: “Panorama de la bande dessinée québecoise de science fiction et de fantastique”: 30-33.

PERIODICAL TEXT:

Content essay:

Protée, 10-2, Summer 1982: “La Bande dessinée québecoise de science fiction”: 83-86.

Source:

Article book:

Canuck Comics. Ed., John Bell. Matrix Graphic Series,1986: “Luc Pomerleau”: 152-153.

POKUS

A humorous cartoon panel created by Michael Baldwin who worked at the Hamilton Spectator in the advertising art department, it first appeared in the Hamilton Spectator on July 22, 1978 and appeared every Saturday. It ran at least to February 24, 1979.

PLANT Peter

Peter Plant was born in Toronto in 1958. As a child he was already reading and drawing cartoons. A favourite was “Little Lula” drawn by Marjorie Henderson Buell, which he considers the best cartoon strip he ever read. He also loved George Feyer and Virgil Partch and Warner Brothers animations, Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd etc.

He joined a university in Winnipeg to study architecture but failed his first year because he spent his time drawing cartoons for the university newspaper. He returned to Toronto where he wrote copy for pamphlets and brochures for Ogilvy and Mather an advertising agency. Then he graduated to radio and TV commercials. His first TV commercial was for Rowntree’s Coffee Crisp.

In 1982 he transferred to Ogilvy and Mather in London England for two years then moved to D’Arcy MacManus and Masius still working in advertising. He left and started a music production company with a partner Crocodile Music writing advertising jingles. The company was quite successful and won several awards.

All this while he was writing and drawing cartoon strips. He produced two daily cartoon strips “Flash Filstrup” which was about a professional artist/exposeur, and “Maggie and Mole” about a pair of high flying city solicitors. He became a full-time cartoonist and created his best known strip, “Bogart”, the adventures of a working girl and her cat. It was picked up by a national newspaper called Today where it ran for nine years. When Today closed it was picked up by the Daily Mail where it remained for a further six years and later by the Sunday Times as well.

From May 1, 2004 to June 1, 2006, he created and produced “Maurice and Earl” exclusively for the Globe and Mail.

He and his family live in the south of England.

SOURCE:

Internet:

Dude Magazine. “The Dude Magazine Interview.” Dude Magazine. no.date. Peter Plant Cartoonist Illustrator Copywriter. Web. 23 July 2012.

“Peter Plant.” Lambiek Comicopedia. Lambiek. 16 Feb. 2012. Web. 22 July 2012.

Correspondence

Email from Peter Plant. 23 July 2012.

PITOU ET SON GRAND-PAPA

See BOURGEOIS Albéric.

 

PITIFUL HUMAN- LIZARD

“The Pitiful Human-Lizard” was created by Jason Loo who first self published. Later it was picked up by Chapterhouse Comics.

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Content:

Serial:

Pitiful Human-Lizard,….: “…” Cartoonist, Jason Loo. Chapterhouse Comics Group.
1, Sept. 2015. 2, Oct. 2015. 4, Dec. 2015: “The Lizard & The Rat Go To                                         Market.”	6, Feb. 2016: “Mom, Me, and Merfolk Mayhem.” 7, Apr. 2016: “Away From Home.” 9, Aug. 2016: “School Talk.”

Pitiful Human-Lizard, 8, June. 2016: “The Gull Croaks Before Lunch Break.” Writ., Fred Kennedy.  Illus., Jason Loo.

Pitiful Human-Lizard,….: “…” Cartoonist, Jason Loo.  Colour assist, Meaghan Carter.
10, Oct. 2016: “All-New.” 11, Dec. 2016: “A Wondrous Tale.” 12, Apr., 2017: “Back In The Day.”. 13, May 2017: “Streetcar Confessions.”	14, June 2017: “Johnny’s Back.”. 3-4, July 2017: “Mom’s Birthday.” 3-5, Aug. 2017: “Paladins In Peril Pt.1.” 3-6, Sept. 2017: “Paladins In Peril Pt. 2.”

 

Pitiful Human-Lizard,….: “…” Cartoonist, Jason Loo. Loo Harvest Group
2, Oct. 2015. 3, Feb. 2015: “Crazy Sunday.”	4, Dec. 2015: “The Lizard & The Rat Go To Market.” 5, Aug. 2015: “All Together Now.”

Story:

Chapter House Summer Special 2016,  July 2016: “Captain Canuck/Pitiful Human-Lizard: Art of Gold.” Writ., Jason Loo & Kalman Andrasofszky. Illus., Jason Loo. Col. Assist., Rachel Richey & Meaghan Carter.

Cover front & back:

Pitiful Human-Lizard, 2, no date. Illus., Jason Loo. Loo Harvest Group.

Pitiful Human-Lizard, 1, Sept. 2015: “Honest Ed’s”. Illus., Jason Loo. Chapterhouse Comics Group. 

Cover front: 

Pitiful Human-Lizard…: Illus., Jason Loo. Chapterhouse Comics….
2,  Oct. 2015. 4, Dec. 2015. 6, Feb. 2016. 7, Apr. 2016. “Cover A”.	8, June. 2016. “Cover A”. 9, Aug. 2016 “Cover A” 10,”Cover A, Robarts Library”. 11, Dec. 2016. “Cover A”. 12, Apr., 2017.	13, May 2017. 14, June 2017. 3-4, July 2017: “Cover A” 3-5, Aug. 2017:  “Cover A” 3-6, Sept. 2017: “Cover A”

 

Pitiful Human-Lizard…: Illus., Jason Loo. Loo Harvest Group.
3, Feb. 2015. “Silver Snail”.	4, May 2015.	5, Aug. 2015.

 

GALLERY:

The Pitiful Human Lizard, 3, Feb. 2015: Front cover.

Captain Canuck Facebook, Christmas 2015: “Pitiful Human Lizard”. Car. Jason Loo.

PIRANHA

This character was created by writer Dave Darrigo and illustrated by Peter Grau. It appeared in only two issues before Special Studio went out of business.

Piranha (for an adult audience) was Dave’s attempt to do an anti-hero similar to the “Executioner” (books) or the “Punisher” (comics/movies), a character who was a merciless killer of criminals. In this case, it was specifically directed at the cocaine “industry”. Dave was inspired by reading newspaper/magazine/book accounts of narco-billionaires who were so powerful that they could control entire countries by corrupting or killing anyone who got in their way.

Rather than have the anti-hero battle them in the U.S. or on the borders of the U.S. “homeland” He decided ‘Piranha’ should fight a secret guerilla war right inside the drug lords’ “homeland”. Being in jungle territory, he should be associated with a native creature – in this case a deadly fish.

Dave thought Toronto artist Peter Grau did his best work in these two issues. Peter rarely had the chance to ink his own pencils and in Piranha Is Loose, with control over both he was able to do a superb job. Dave was told by Peter that “Piranha” was difficult for him to do by nature of the graphic violence. Fortunately he was able to give Dave the terrible effect he wanted.

The above account closely follows Dave’s own account of the character and its inspiration. It was edited only to fit the encyclopedia format.

MEDIUM:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Cover front:

Piranha Is Loose,…: …
1, Jan.1991: Illus., Peter Grau.	2, Mar.1991: Illus., Peter Grau.

Content serial:

Piranha Is Loose,…: “Piranha:….”Writ., Dave Darrigo. Illus. Peter Grau. Let., Fred Fairfield: ….
1, Jan.1991: “Silver or Lead”: 1-32.	2, Mar. 1991: “Expedition Into Terror”: 1-22.

SOURCE:

Correspondence:

An account by Dave Darrigo Dec. 2017 of the character and what inspired Dave to conceive of it.

GALLERY:

Piranha Is Loose, 1, Jan. 1991. Front cover.

Piranha Is Loose, 2 March 1991: 20.