What Happened Next?

The story behind What Happened Next is HERE. Top strip is dated June 22 1912, next June 29 1912 and finally September 20 1913.

Adventures of Captain Morgan

The Adventures of Captain Morgan began on September 8 1949. These samples are from the Stanstead Journal, Quebec's oldest weekly newspaper. Stanstead is home to about only 3000 people so the strip may have been syndicated from elsewhere. Did it have anything to do with Seagram's Captain Morgan Rum? An advertising ploy? And who was the "foremost Canadian cartoonist" mentioned in the blurb?

Historicist: Butterfly With Chocolate Wings

A nice selection of Chocolate advertisements fromThe Goblin HERE.

Henry Stull (1851-1911?)

Henry Stull was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1851. His comic strip work shown here was done for a Philadelphia publication called Our Continent in 1883. He also worked for Frank Leslie's periodicals. A biography can be found HERE and more artwork HERE.

Mounties in Comics (USA)

Zane Grey’s King of the Royal Mounted, No. 21, June - August 1956, Dell Comics. The artwork is by Albert Gioletti who was best known for Turok, Son of Stone, which was written by Paul S. Newman.

NOVOID

Colin Hinz NOVOID was begun in 1985 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and continued until 1991. Issues 5-8 were produced in Orillia, Ontario.

“Everything was mimeo'd by me,” says Colin, “using a Gestetner 360 and various other machines. At one time I had half a dozen machines, each inked in a different colour: black, red, green, congressional blue, light blue, and a machine for one-offs and experiments.”

The striking cover illustration below is by Taral Wayne who was Fan Guest of Honour at the 67th World Science Fiction Convention last August in Montreal.

Top: Art by Brad W. Foster

Sam Hunter

Sam Hunter cartoon from The Moon, 1901

The Giants

The Toronto Telegram strip The Giants was drawn from September 1964 to September 1967 by Norm Drew and continued with artist Bill Payne and writer Walt McDayter until 1969. After leaving the GIANTS cartoonist Norm Drew headed to London and eventual animation work on the Beatles Yellow Submarine film. In the mid 1970’s Drew had two daily and weekly cartoon features appearing nationally: Chika, Choppy & Chips© (a children’s puzzle panel) and The Bush Babies©  the latter running in the Globe & Mail.

[ ‘Giants (of Canadian history) was a Toronto Telegram Expo '68 run up feature. In 1967 we then took the feature international in subject matter. The first episode was ‘The Bomb Builders’ dealing with the creation of the atomic bomb issuing in the nuclear age. Went international with a big bang one could say. Next was the story of the creation of the FBI. That elicited a personal fan letter from J. Edgar himself.’ - Norm Drew ]

Norm Drew and Walt McDayter

May 13, 1966

May 26, 1966, Lethbridge Herald.

Jan 21, 1965, Lethbridge Herald.

Norm Drew at work on The Giants


Thanks to Norm Drew

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Norman McClaren

Canadian animator Norman McClaren from Liberty Magazine, 18 January 1947.

Win Mortimer (1919-1988)

Superman artist James Winslow "Win" Mortimer was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1919. This original cartoon courtesy of Don Kurtz. A look at his comic career can be found HERE.