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

Hark! A Vagrant

Kate Beaton’s Tumblr page HERE.

Lost Heroes

A new Canadian documentary, ‘Lost Heroes,’ a look at the Canadian war comics and their creators, is currently being filmed in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Los Angeles by Middle Child Films in association with Farpoint Films. 

Through American Eyes

Puck, Dec 26 1888 by C. J. Taylor

Happy Hooligan

Canadian cartoonist Peard Sutherland's first published cartoon (1908) in an unknown Winnipeg newspaper. Image courtesy Glinda and Rill Sutherland.

Peard Sutherland (1902-1954)

Vancouver collector Peard Sutherland (see biography HERE) became a cartoonist at a young age. Most of the following were published when he was only 15. They appeared in the Canadian Courier, United Briefs, Toronto Globe, and Toronto Star Weekly. One cartoon appeared in American Boy. Thanks to Glinda and Rill Sutherland.

The Sutherland library contained a notable collection of English and French literature, philosophy, poetry, nature, mythology and art history. He had a notable collection of juvenile fiction featuring a complete set of the Oz books and Henty’s historical boys fiction. He had a special love of British story papers and annuals that were his passion as a boy.

Peard and Rill Sutherland

Rill and Glinda Sutherland

Normand Hudon (1929-1997)

Normand Hudon was a fine artist, illustrator, editorial cartoonist and comic strip artist. In the fifties and sixties Hudon's work was popular in English and French periodicals across Canada.

Hudon drew a comic strip called ‘Julien Gagnon,’ as Remy, starting 16 May 1948. In 1949 Harry Cherney and Norm Hamilton produced a daily strip for Le Petit Journal called ‘Le détective Lanson’ and Lanson was the hero of a full page adventure called ‘Le Cirque Moréno’ signed Normand Hudon.