PC AND PIXEL

This cartoon strip was created by Thach Bui and syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group. It appeared in the Toronto Star circa 1996 to 1999 and in the National Post in 2000.

“PC Odata achieved middle age only to be ‘downsized’ out of a job and his marriage. Like so many cast out by today’s economy, he becomes a free-lance consultant with an office at home. He is available for hire by any PR firm, because advertising is what he used to do, but will accept almost any kind of work to make ends meet. PC is wired, but with technology always changing, is never quite as comfortable surfing the Net as his cat Pixel, an addicted Netsurfer who is never without her laptop. Pixel has a secret friend Digit, a mouse who hangs around PC’s apartment and likes to dispense advice over the Internet. No matter what PC does, technology always intrudes upon his life.”

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NEWSPAPER:

Content strip cartoon:

“PC and Pixel.” Car., Thac Bui Toronto Star, 3 Aug. 1996: J12 to 3 July 1999:L13..

“PC and Pixel.” Car., Thac Bui National Post, 10 Apr. 2000 to 26 Aug. 2000:W21.

SOURCE:

Press Release:

PC and Pixel by Thach Bui. Presented by The Washington Writers Group.

PAYNE William

This cartoonist and radio announcer took over the illustration duties on the long running cartoon strip “The Giants” from Norm Drew beginning with “Stanley & Livingston” on April 12, 1968. The for “Charles Lindberg” beginning September 1967, he assumed cartooning duties. The strip continued to approximately September in 1969.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

NEWSPAPER:

Content strip cartoon:

“The Giants.” Toronto Telegram Syndicate, April 12, 1968 to circa Sept. 1969.

ILLUSTRATOR:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

Orb Magazine, 1- 6, March/April 1976: “The Flame Of El-Hamman.” Writ., George Henderson: 50-57.

Cover front:

Orb Magazine, 1-3, Dec.1974, Col., John Allison.

NEWSPAPER:

Content strip cartoon:

“The Giants.” Toronto Telegram Syndicate, September 25, 1967 to April 12 1968.

INKER & LETTERER:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

Potlatch presents The 1980 Comics Annual. Potlatch Publications, 1979: “Dust Bowl Sanction.” Writ. & Pen., Jim Craig: 69-80.

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content:

Serial:

Orb, 1-5, Jan./Feb. 1976: “Dark Ninja: Harbinger of Doom.” Writ., Russell Wallace. Pen., Vince Marchesano: 10-17.

Song:

Heavy Metal, III-4, Aug. 1979: “Sympathy for the Devil.” Lyrics, Mick Jagger & Keith Richards. Co-adapters, James Waley & Gene Day. Pen., Gene Day. Col., Martin Springett: 81-88.

 

PAVLOV

A cartoon panel, created by Toronto Cartoonist Ted Martin just as the Toronto Telegram folded and the Toronto Sun opened. It began as a light political satire and evolved into the adventures of a dog which took on the panel’s name. Martin acquiesced and made the dog the star of the panel after readers would phone in asking why it wasn’t in that day’s panel.

In 1995 it was carried in a hundred newspapers around the world. It was syndicated by Universal Press.

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BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content panel cartoon & Cover book front & back:

Pavlov. Car., Ted Martin. Dell Publishing Co. Ltd., Jan. 1984.

Pavlov dog pounds. Car., Ted Martin. Andrews and McMeel Inc. 1983.

Pavlov’s Pad. Car., Ted Martin. Andrews and McMeel Inc. 1982.

Pavlov’s Pad. Car., Ted Martin. Dell Publishing Co. Ltd., Aug. 1984.

SOURCE:

Article newspaper:

Toronto Sun, 8 Jan.1995: “Funny Business.” Writ, Ian Harvey: 11.

GALLERY:

Pavlov’s Pad. 1982: Front cover.

PAULL Margaret

“You care about what you publish and you care all the way along. If you don’t it’s not going to work.”                                                                                                        Quill & Quire, 1985.

In 1944, she graduated with honours in illustration, lettering, costume and autonomy from the Ontario College of Art. She joined the Lord & Thomas advertising company, but her mentor Group of Seven artist Franklin Carmichael recommended her for position of cover designer at publisher William Collins & Sons where she began “a long influential career in Canadian publishing.” (Gifford)

At the start of her career, she designed covers primarily for Collins White Circle line of pocketbooks Now sought after by collectors. One of her first covers was David Rame’s Tunnel From Calais, White Circle 74. The cover according to Jim Gifford a current editorial director at HarperCollins: “… demonstrates Paull’s expert use of colour and typography as well as dramatic panache that would compel a wartime audience to part with 25 cents in austere times.”

Over time Paull became art director overseeing photographic covers as well as the work of other artists. She retired in 1985 after working for the company for 42 years. She cofounded the Book Promotion and Editorial Club and worked on committees for the Canadian Book Publishers’ Council. She became the first woman to chair the Book Publishers’ Association of Canada.

An avid hiker and snowshoer, she eventually donated her land to form part of what would become the Bruce Trail.

 

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ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK TEXT:                                                                                                                      All published by Collins White Circle Pocket Novel.

Cover book front:

Barometer Rising. Writ., Hugh MacLennan. no date.

Huckleberry Finn. Writ., Mark Twain. no date.

Sunshine Sketches Of A Little Town. Writ., Steven Leacock. no date.

Two Solitudes. Writ., Hugh MacLennan. no date.

SOURCE:

Article periodical:

Quill & Quire, May 2017: “An Illustrated Life.” Writ., Jim Gifford:  12-13.

GALLERY:

                                      

 

PAUL

A series of semi autobiographical books by Michel Rabagliati, in which Michel has assigned his own experiences to a character named “Paul”. The novel Paul à Québec was made into a live action film of the same name in 2015.

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BOOK GRAPHIC:                                                                                                              All cartooned by Michel Rabagliati.

Content novel & Cover book front:

Paul à la champagne. Col., Catherine Drolet. Les Éditions de la Pastèque, 2013. 15e anniversaire.

Paul at Home. Trans., Helge Dascher & Rob Aspinall. Drawn & Quarterly, 2020. (Originally published as Paul à la maison. by Les Éditions de la Pastèque.)

Paul dans le Nord. Les Éditions de la Pastèque, Nov. 2015.

Paul in the Country. Trans., Helge Dascher. Let., Dirk Rehm. Drawn & Quarterly, 2000. (Originally published as Paul à la champagne. by Les Éditions de la Pastèque.)

Paul Joins the Scouts.. Trans., Helge Dascher. Conundrum Press, 2013. (Originally published as Paul au Parc by Les Éditions de la Pastèque, 2011.)

Paul Moves Out. Trans., Helge Dascher. Let., Dirk Rehm. Drawn & Quarterly, May, 2005. (Originally published as Paul en appartement. by Les Éditions de la Pastèque.)

Content account of film production:

31 Jours de Tournage: Dans les coulisses de “Paul à Québec le film. Car., Cyril Doisneau. Les Éditions de la Pastèque, 3e trimester 2015.

PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content excerpt from novel:

“Paul dans le Nord.” Taddle Creek, 34, Winter 2014-2015: 27-33.

FILM LIVE ACTION:

Paul à Québec. 2015. Producers Karina Vanesse and Nathalie Brigitte Bustos, Director François Bouvier, Actors François Létoureau and Julie Le Breton who won the best actress award at the Québec Cinéma Awards.

PATTERSON Russel

Born in the 1890’s in Omaha Nebraska, U.S.A.

He moved as a child with his family to Newfoundland and then to Montréal, when his father a railroad lawyer joined Canadian Pacific Railways. He studied architecture at McGill University for a year. He then drew cartoons first for the Standard [Montréal] then for La Patrie. While at the latter he created the cartoon strip “Pierre et Pierrette” which first appeared in the summer of 1913 but ended with the outbreak of World War 1.

After being rejected by the Canadian Army in 1914, he went to Chicago U.S.A. to study. By 1920, his illustrations were appearing in Harpers Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and Life. He was a great influence on the flapper fashion of the time. The “Patterson Girl” became the standard of the 1920’s, as the “Gibson Girl” was the standard of the 1890’s. During 1951 to 1956, he did a cartoon series “Mamie” for United Feature Syndicate.

In addition to illustration, he designed the sets and costumes of the 1922 Ziegfeld Follies. This activity developed into a parallel career.

SOURCE:

Article book:

The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1979: 247.

Article periodical:

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

Internet:

Archived Newspaper Strips of the 20^th Century – Québecois.” Library & Archives Canada/Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/comics. Accessed 3 October 2017

 

PATTERSON C. R.

He was a cartoonist for the Times [Victoria] in 1907.

SOURCE:

Book text:

The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1979: 247.

 

LA PATRIE

Location: Montréal.

According to Kenneth Barker, this is the first Canadian newspaper to publish a Canadian created cartoon strip. “Les aventures de Timothée” appeared as a half page 30 January 1904.

SOURCE:

Article periodical:

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

PATEL Isu

Born 1942, Jalsan India.

He was trained in Switzerland and joined the National Film Board in the 1970’s, where he created a number of films based on using beads, cutouts, multiple exposures, intricately designed backgrounds and backlit plasticine figures.

His interests are in religion and mythology. Paradise is considered his finest work. It involves an envious blackbird who covets the lifestyle of a beautiful bird in an emperor’s palace, only to discover when he acquires it that a golden cage does not provide as much pleasure as the open skies.

His films include: How Death Came To Earth (1971), Bead Game (1977) Afterlife (1978), Paradise (1985) and Divine Fate (1993).

SOURCE:

Article book:

Take One’s Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Ed., Wyndham Wise. University of  Toronto Press 2001: “Patel Isu”: 162.

PAT THE AIR CADET

It first appeared in Grand Slam, 1-1, October. 1941 published by Anglo-American Publishing. Co. and continued approximately three years to Grand Slam, 3-12, November 1944.

Patricia Scott and her twin brother Jerry are air cadets. Patricia, a pilot and air mechanic is also accomplished in A.R.P. work and first aid. The first stories are firmly embedded in the military, but as the stories progress, they fall into the espionage format and finally a detective style. It would appear that the character was being prepared for a post war existence, but for whatever reason it disappeared. One story that is of particular interest is “The Spirit Spy Returns.” In it the Indian character although dressed in a stereotypical garb, is portrayed as an intelligent individual who saves Pat and her group and outwits the Spirit Spy. This treatment of an aboriginal is almost unique in the 1940’s comic books.

‘Pat the Air Cadet’ was credited to a “Macduff”, but it is probable that Ted McCall and Doris Slater teamed up under this pseudonym to produce the character. First, McCall and Slater had a close family connection. They were in-laws. Second, they were professionally a perfect fit. McCall was an accomplished writer and Slater was an honours graduate from the Ontario College of Art, with experience drawing individuals accurately and quickly which she acquired from working fairs and carnivals. Finally, we know that with the inception of Three Aces Comics, about a month after Grand Slam began, Doris Slater was working for Anglo-American drawing another feature “Martin Blake, Animal King” under her own name.

It is possible though highly unlikely, given the paucity of accomplished artists for this type of work at this time, that “Pat The Air Cadet” was the product of a single cartoonist’s sole entry into the comic book world. Macduff appears nowhere else in the industry.

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PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content:

Serial:

Grand Slam Comics….: “Pat The Air Cadet: …” Car. Macduff. Anglo-American Publishing. Co. Ltd. Black & white

1-1, Oct. 1941. 1-4, March 1942: “Pat Catches A Raider”: 28-37. 1-5, April, 1942: “The Haunted House”: 48-61. 1-6, May, 1942: “Adventures on Active Service”: 26-38. 1-8, July 1942: “Sabotage at Sea”: 38-51. 2-2, Jan. 1943: “Escape for Freedom”: 41-54. 2-3, February 1943: “Mystery at Black Manor”: 42-55. 2-4, March 1943: “The Hermit of Windy Ridges”: 41-54. 2-5, April 1943: “Torpedo Squadron”: 41-54. 2-7, June 1943: “The Dagger of Dergla”: 42-55. 2-8, July 1943: “ The Spirit Spy Returns”: 41-53. 3-1, Dec. 1943: “The Mad Monster of Hollywood”: 42-55. 3-2, Jan. 1944: No story: 3-10, Sept. 1944: “The Idol of Moobi”: 45-47. 3-11, Oct. 1944: “Dr. Sinistra Tries Again”: 45-47.

Grand Slam Comics, 3-12, Nov. 1944: “Pat the Air Cadet: Gets the Shock of Her Life.” Unidentified: 45-47. Anglo-American Publishing. Co. Ltd. Black & white.

Paper Doll:

Grand Slam Comics, 1-5, April 1943: “Jerry Scott: Air Cadet.” Illus., Unidentified: 63. Anglo-American Publishing. Co. Ltd. Black & white.

Cover front:

Grand Slam Comics, 1-1, Sept./Oct. 1941.: Front: Illus., unknown.

GALLERY:

Grand Slam Comics, 1-1, Sept./Oct. 1941.

Grand Slam Comics, 1-1, Oct. 1941.

Grand Slam, 1-5, April 1942:48-61.

Grand Slam Comics, 3-11, Oct. 1944:45-47.

Grand Slam Comics, 3-12, Nov. 1944: 45-47.

Grand Slam Comics, 1-5, April 1943: 63.