Peter Whalley (February 21, 1921 – September 18, 2007) was a

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, cartoonist, illustrator and

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. Whalley was born in

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, went to King's Collegiate School in

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until 1937, and attended the

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. After serving with the Canadian Merchant Marine during the

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, he later established himself in Montreal as a prominent humorist, beginning in the 1940s with the ''

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''. He would become well known in the 1960s and 1970s doing covers for ''

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'', '' Weekend'' and the ''Montrealer'' magazines. He used a distinctive stripped-down style to send up the cultural and political life of Canada. As an illustrator, he collaborated on works with

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and

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, among others. In 1965, Whalley won first prize for Political Cartooning at the International Salon of Caricature and Cartoon. In 2007, he was inducted into the Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame. He died in a hospital in

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, aged 86.

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