GIANTS of the NORTH:
The Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame
Welcome to Giants
of the North, a virtual exhibit that celebrates singular,
life-long contributions to the art of cartooning in Canada!
The Canadian Cartoonist
Hall of Fame was founded in 2005 as part of the Doug
Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning.
George FEYER
(1921-1967)
Born in
Hungary, George Feyer lived through the Nazi occupation and Stalinism
until forging papers and escaping to Canada in 1948. While working
in a factory he sold his first cartoon to Maclean's magazine.
From there, he became an established cartoonist, working
for print and television, and creating designs for his own entrepreneurial
ventures.
For television,
his work on the children's show Razzle Dazzle, featuring
the cartoon adventures of Percy Kidpester, Terwilleger Topsoil,
Daniel the Spaniel, and J. Tipton Teabag, are fondly remembered by Canadians
who grew up in the mid-60s.
As Terry
Mosher and Peter Desbarats note in The Hecklers, Feyer patented
"an animation process that is still in use today. Despite being highly
inventive and extremely prolific, much of Feyer's better
work --reflections
on religion, sex, and politics --still remains unpublished."
In the mid-1960s,
despite being celebrated in Toronto and an intimate
of intellectuals like Marshall McLuhan, Feyer moved to Los Angeles
to advance his career. Relatively successful, he nevertheless committed suicide there in 1967. In 2006 Feyer was inducted \into The
Giants of the North Hall of Fame.
Update:
A 24-page booklet of Feyer cartoons is now available.
The Comic Art of George Feyer is available
for $5.00
(postage included)
from:
The Canadian Comic Art Centre
37 Crimea St
Guelph ON
N1H 2Y5
More about George Feyer:
Aislin
on Feyer
CBC
Archives: "Feyer's Fair"
CBC
Archives: "Coming to Canada" by Feyer
CBC
Archives: "Feyer Eulogy" by Lister Sinclair
Feyer
at Drawn.ca
Canadian
Encyclopedia
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