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Doris Slater
Doris Slater Titus ( – ) was a Canadian cartoonist, painter, and art teacher. She was the first female cartoonist in the Canadian comics, Canadian comic book industry. Life and career Doris Slater was born on on a farm near Chatham-Kent, Chatham, Ontario. Her family moved to Toronto in 1929, where she attended Oakwood Collegiate Institute, Oakwood Collegiate High School and the OCAD University, Ontario College of Art, graduating from the latter in 1939. Through her older sister's marriage, Slater became sister-in-law to Ted McCall of the Anglo-American Publishing, Anglo-American Publications Company. In 1941, Slater and McCall - using the shared pseudonym MacDuff - collaborated on a character called "Pat the Air Cadet", a female pilot who fought Nazis, for ''Grand Slam Comics''. The next year she wrote and drew her own feature, "Martin Blake, Animal King", for ''3 Aces Comics.'' In 1944, she created a comic book version of Patricia Joudry's CFRB radio show ''Penny's Diar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Comics
Canadian comics refers to comics and cartooning by citizens of Canada or Permanent residency in Canada, permanent residents of Canada regardless of residence. Canada has Official bilingualism in Canada, two official languages, and distinct comics cultures have developed in English Canada, English and French Canada. The English tends to follow History of American comics, American trends, and the French, Franco-Belgian comics, Franco-Belgian ones, with little crossover between the two cultures. Canadian comics run the gamut of comics forms, including Editorial cartoonist, editorial cartooning, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, and webcomics, and are published in newspapers, magazines, books, and online. They have received attention in international comics communities and have received support from the Government of Canada, federal and provincial governments, including grants from the Canada Council, Canada Council for the Arts. There are comics publishers throughout the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
