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Virgil Reilly Virgil Reilly, photograph published in the Truth newspaper (Sydney), 2 November 1941. Born Virgil Gavan Reilly (1892-11-29) 29 November 1892 Charlton, Victoria, Australia Died 23 January 1974 (1974-01-23) (aged 81) Sydney, Australia Pen name Virgil Occupation Cartoonist, comic book/strip artist, illustrator Nationality Australian Period 1910 – c. 1958 Signature Virgil Reilly ...
The name Victoria Day was selected by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, who wanted to avoid an imperialist name that would antagonize French Canadians. [14] The Crown-in-Council, the following year, designated May 24 as the official birthday of King Edward VII. [15] Victoria Day celebrations at Queen's Park, in Toronto, 1910
In 1958 Stu Keate, publisher of the Victoria Daily Times, asked Barron to produce editorial cartoons. [4] In 1961, Pierre Berton introduced Barron to the editor of the Toronto Star , and Barron moved to Toronto to begin a 30-year relationship with the Star , starting as an alternate to cartoonist Duncan Macpherson . [ 4 ]
While earlier examples of Canadian comics tend to imitate American and British examples, over the course of the 20th Century, Canadian cartoonists have cut out niches of their own, as in Hal Foster's pioneering adventure comic strip work on Tarzan and Prince Valiant; [1] in Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse, readers follow the characters as they grow older and deal with a variety of ...
APTN Kids has also broadcast cartoons such Bizou (2007), Animism (2013), Kagagi (2014), and Lil Glooscap and the Legends of Turtle Island (2022), as well as the stop motion series Wapos Bay (2005-2011) and Guardians Evolution (2014-2015), with the former produced with the assistance of the National Film Board of Canada.
In the 21st century, some Québécois cartoonists who have seen success in Canada and abroad are Michel Rabagliati and his semi-autobiographical Paul series, Maryse Dubuc and Delaf's Les Nombrils (The Bellybuttons), aimed at teenaged girls, and Guy Delisle with various travelogue comics. All of these series have seen English translations.
Animated television series from the 2010s originating in Canada. 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; ... 2010s Canadian black cartoons (4 P) A. Arthur ... The Day My Butt ...
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Ward grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey, where his father was an executive with the United Fruit Company. [1]At age 17, Ward, already an art hobbyist, began his professional career by illustrating "beer jackets", a type of white denim jacket with text or design printed or drawn on the back; Ward charged one dollar a jacket, and by his own count drew hundreds during ...