Lew Saw

January 31, 1963

Lewis Strickland Saw was a cartoonist who worked in animation, born in Australia, died in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada on September 30, 1994. One Up was published by the Toronto Daily Star.

July 23, 1963

Thanks to Mark Seifert

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OOKPIK

March 1, 1963, Schenectady Gazette

Happy Canada Day! Al Beaton, editorial cartoonist at the Toronto Telegram, drew Ookpik, a strip based on a popular Arctic owl stuffed toy, in the mid-1960s. It ran for two years in 50 newspapers ending because of the artist's glaucoma. Part of the proceeds went to the Ookpik doll's 62 year old creator Inuit Jeannie Snowball and her neighbours at Fort Chimo. She had been lost in the ice and survived by eating the flesh, raw, of one of the small Arctic owls.Ookpik, Dec 1, 1963, Copyright Her Majesty the Queen.

December 1, 1963

December 2, 1963

December 3, 1963

December 5, 1963

Fritz by Mial Lishness

Lethbridge Daily Herald, December 11, 1926

Lethbridge Daily Herald, December 18, 1926

The Importance of Mr. Peewee

The Importance of Mr. Peewee by Ed Flinn and Harold Arthur MacGill (1875-1950) HERE

Ward Savage

May 23, 1908

From the Fernie, BC Ledger, 1908, cartoons by resident Socialist Ward Savage. The newspaper had their own 'Our Socialist Column' and covered the local socialist gathering. "A very pleasant gathering of socialists was held in the city today..."

July 18, 1908

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Punch; or, The Northern Light! - 1868

John Henry Walker cover, 
Montreal: Langford's,
 Vol. 1 No. 2, April 11, 1868

Punch in Canada Covers, 1849 and 1850

Punch in Canada

Vol. 1, No. 25, Dec. 15, 1849

Vol. 2, No. 2, Jan. 19, 1850

Thanks to Huib van Opstal

Little Miss "Maiden" Canada

Little Miss "Maiden" Canada - 

Advertisements for Cowan Chocolate, 

L.L.Berry, originator, 1915

Robin des Bois

Robin Hood and Company was begun in the Toronto Telegram on September 23, 1935 and carried on until December 16, 1939. The author and copyright-holder was Edwin R. “Ted” McCall (1901-1975) who had previously created Men of the Mounted, (February 13, 1933-February 16, 1935,) the first comic strip ever to feature Mountie heroes. The illustrator was Charles R. Snelgrove, a Toronto Telegram staff artist who illustrated newspaper serials. 

Robin Hood and Company was serialized in the French journal L’Aventureux as Robin des Bois, beginning with No. 31 on August 7, 1937. These were colored reprints of the black and white Robin Hood & Company dailies by Snelgrove. The last appeared in L’Aventureux dated March 8, 1943 and was attributed to Charles Morel.

August 7, 1937

August 28, 1937

November 6, 1937

December 4, 1937

January 15, 1938

August 10, 1941 par Charles Morel

All images courtesy Gallica

Bell Features Comic Book Titles 1946-1951

Dime Comics No. 17

“By the end of the war (Cyril) Bell had bought a seventy-five foot long printing press with a seventy-five thousand dollar loan from the Industrial Development Bank and started reprinting old comic books with new covers for export to England. They were shipped a thousand at a time in old tea chests and the new covers were adapted to suit English tastes (Wow Comics, a title considered meaningless in the Midlands became Smasher Comics). He also began dealing with American comic-book publishers and broadened his line with coloring books, puzzle magazines, and a series of extremely tame love comics.” ❦ 

❦ ‘A fond portrait of those wild… Wartime Comics, A Maclean’s Flashback’ by Alexander Ross, Maclean’s Magazine, September 19, 1964.

❦ Bell Features Comic Books from the Canadian Patent Office Records

Comic-Crimes, August 26 1946

Smasher Comics, August 26 1946

Super Duper Comics, April 12, 1947

Movie Life Comic, Feb 14, 1951

Super Duper Comics, Feb 14, 1951

Frontier Marshall Comics, Feb 14, 1951

World’s Greatest Comics Feb 14, 1951

Cartoon Funnies, Feb 14, 1951

Ranger Trail Comics, Feb 14, 1951

Gallant Comics, Feb 14, 1951

Hi Comics, Feb 14, 1951

Starlight Romances, Feb 14, 1951

Animal Toons, Feb 14, 1951

Campus Comics, Feb 14, 1951

Valiant Comics, February 27, 1951

Firefighter Comics, February 27, 1951

Rescue Squad Comics, February 27, 1951

Sky Hawk Comics, February 27, 1951

Animal ‘Ventures, February 27, 1951

Corral Comics, February 27, 1951

Amazing Animals, February 27, 1951

Comic Toons, May 8 1951

Spy Secrets, May 8 1951

Moonlight Romances, May 8 1951

Secret Agent, May 8 1951

Love Confidences, May 8 1951

Spring Romance Comics, May 8 1951

Circus of Fun, May 22, 1951

Kiddie Caper Comic, May 22, 1951

Terrific Adventure Comics, May 22, 1951

Parade of the Stars, May 22, 1951

Boots and Saddles, Comics May 22, 1951

Teen Toons, May 22, 1951

Movie Comics, June 8, 1951

Teen ‘Ventures, June 8, 1951

Wonderful Adventures, June 8, 1951

Crack Adventures, June 8, 1951

Amazing Spy Adventures, June 8, 1951

Tribal Warrior, June 8, 1951

Asia Comics, November 27, 1951

Surprising Adventures, November 27, 1951

Western Cowboys and Outlaws, November 27, 1951

Sherriffs VS Outlaws, November 27, 1951

Western Adventure Thrillers, November 27, 1951

All Great Comics, November 28, 1951

All Top Comics, November 28, 1951

Jungle Drums, November 28, 1951

Broncho Busters, November 28, 1951

Amazing Western Adventures, November 28, 1951

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The Cartoonmen of Canada

Maclean’s Magazine, Vol. XXVII, No. 5, March 1914, pp.43-46.

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*Thanks to Jim Brigham!

French Canadian Newspapers

Useful information and sample galleries of French Canadian newspapers carrying comics HERE and specifics on Le Samedi (familiar to Punch in Canada readers) HERE. Thanks to André Fournier.

Nothing But The Truth

Evening Telegram Thurs. Aug. 8 1929

“Nearly everyone knows Hy Moyer, the originator of the illustrated cartoons, "Nothing but the Truth." Hy Moyer is now being teamed with Joe Carr in a series of programmes scheduled for 10.30 Saturday night, or immediately following the end of the hockey broadcast. Known as the "Cartoon of the Air" the Moyer-Carr combination presents some very original oddities in the news. It's one of those programmes quite different from the ordinary run of entertainment. CFRB, Toronto”- Flesherton Advance, Nov. 1941

Harry B. Moyer's Nothing But The Truth was a popular front page cartoon in the Toronto Telegram in the late twenties and thirties. Hy Moyer drew comic pages for Bell Features of Toronto in the forties doing various humour cartoon pages like Dibs & Dabs in Active Comics and the stereotypical Java Bean in Super-Duper Comics #3 (featuring the last appearance of Adrian Dingle's Nelvana of the Northern Lights). Below are two of Moyers Canadian postcards. A 1915  article by Moyer entitled Art and the Newspaper can be read HERE. 

*Tip of the hat to J. Brigham

Superman in Manitoba

Not long after Superman’s first appearance in Action Comics #1, published on April 18, 1938 (dated on the cover to June 1938) the Superman comic strip was published in the Winnipeg Evening Tribune.  The promotional article, announced on October 31, 1939, used local landmarks like the Red River and the Golden Boy on the top of the legislative building dome to stir the young Manitoban’s imaginations.

The strip was announced on October 31, 1939 and finally made its debut as a daily on November 3, 1939 followed by a color half-Sunday page the following Saturday.

On September 13, 1941, under a banner featuring portraits of the creators was an article by John Kobler reprinted from the Saturday Evening Post.

He is Surprised to Find Houses in Montreal

Cartoons Magazine (US), Volume 6, July-Dec, 1914

Canadian Newspaper Cartoonist Portraits of 1902

Images from The Wandering Yankee; or, The Fun of Seeing Canada by Anson Albert Gard NY: Emerson Press 1902