Showing posts with label caricatures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label caricatures. Show all posts
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Peterson for The Vancouver Sun, September 27, 2003: A federal central Canadian politician courting the "local" Western B.C. vote.[/caption]
The great Canadian editorial cartoonist Roy Peterson passed away Sunday, at his West Vancouver home. He was 77. Peterson was one of the finest editorial cartoonists of any country, and any time, but he was Canadian; born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1936, and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. He served as the editorial cartoonist for The Vancouver Sun newspaper from 1962 to 2009 (read the Sun's obituary). From 1978 to 2001, his illustrations appeared in the weekly national news magazine Macleans, illustrating Allan Fotheringham's back page column -- that would likely have been where I, and most Canadians, first saw his work -- and what work!
Peterson for The Vancouver Sun, September 27, 2003: A federal central Canadian politician courting the "local" Western B.C. vote.[/caption]The great Canadian editorial cartoonist Roy Peterson passed away Sunday, at his West Vancouver home. He was 77. Peterson was one of the finest editorial cartoonists of any country, and any time, but he was Canadian; born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1936, and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. He served as the editorial cartoonist for The Vancouver Sun newspaper from 1962 to 2009 (read the Sun's obituary). From 1978 to 2001, his illustrations appeared in the weekly national news magazine Macleans, illustrating Allan Fotheringham's back page column -- that would likely have been where I, and most Canadians, first saw his work -- and what work!
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This is one of the flattering ones! Click image to enlarge.[/caption]
Over a year, two years ago, unflattering caricatures began appearing in blue toter bins around the Fairview area. I honestly didn't get it at first, then one day I was checking a toter and the caricature had a bike helmet daubed with bright orange paint -- I had a bright orange helmet. ... It was easy to guess the crazy culprit. I won't identify him, but his name rhymes with "Bill." Kind of sad for him to have somebody so much in your head like that, but, I decided, if he wanted to spend his time drawing pictures of me, rather than binning, then why should I complain? Many of these caricatures disappeared as bins were replaced, or scrubbed clean, and the culprit stopped adding new ones.
This is one of the flattering ones! Click image to enlarge.[/caption]Over a year, two years ago, unflattering caricatures began appearing in blue toter bins around the Fairview area. I honestly didn't get it at first, then one day I was checking a toter and the caricature had a bike helmet daubed with bright orange paint -- I had a bright orange helmet. ... It was easy to guess the crazy culprit. I won't identify him, but his name rhymes with "Bill." Kind of sad for him to have somebody so much in your head like that, but, I decided, if he wanted to spend his time drawing pictures of me, rather than binning, then why should I complain? Many of these caricatures disappeared as bins were replaced, or scrubbed clean, and the culprit stopped adding new ones.
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