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.
Peter Whalley
(b. 1921)
Photo: Whalley, 1966 |
Peter Whalley is one of the most
iconoclastic and inventive cartoonists Canada has ever produced.
Born in Brockville, Ontario in
1921, Whalley attended the Nova Scotia College of Art in Halifax before
serving in the merchant marine in World War II.
Settling in Quebec after the war,
he began contributing illustrations, gag & political cartoons to national
publications beginning in the 1940s.
His work appeared in Maclean's, The
Standard (Weekend) Magazine, and others all through the 1950s and 60s.
Whalley did other commercial work and produced a segment for the CBC's Observer television
program (1963-66), illustrating the week's news with cartoons.
He produced several books with
the writer Eric Nicol, syndicated columnist for the Vancouver Province, including An
Uninhibited History of Canada & 100 Years of What?
Most
recently the pair collaborated on Canadian
Politics
Unplugged (2003).
In addition, Whalley created several
solo collections of cartoons, many as an early "self-publisher," including Hyperbole, Northern
Blights, Phap (the Pornographics of Politics), & The Man on
the High Wire.
Using a broad, "cartoony" style,
this Giant of the North lambasted such Canadian sacred cows as the Group
of Seven, the Welfare State, and every conceivable aspect of politics.
From The Hecklers, by Peter
Desbarats & Terry Mosher (1979):
...there was a cynical
side to the cartoonist that the reading public was not aware of.
Pierre Berton considered Whalley to be one of the most inventive cartoonists
he had ever run across. Max Newton, the late art director of Weekend
magazine, called Whalley a man before his time in that, "he had a warped,
poignant sense of humour that is finally coming into style."
In 1965 Whalley won first prize for
Political Cartooning at the International Salon of Caricature and Cartoon.
Peter Whalley lives in Morin Heights,
Quebec, and exhibits his sculptures in Montreal. In 2005 he was inducted
into the Giants of the North.
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