Albéric Bourgeois (November 29, 1876 – November 17, 1962) was a Canadian

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, credited with creating the first continuing

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to use word balloons in Canada.

Personal history and career

Albéric Bourgeois was born November 29, 1876. He studied

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in Montréal until 1899, and continued in Boston, where he then landed a job at '' The Boston Post'' where he was producing '' The Education of Annie'' in 1902. He started at the newspaper '' La Patrie'' when he returned to Montréal in 1903. He did political cartoons, as well as the comic strip '' Les Aventures de Timothée'', which may have been the first continuing Québécois

. Later, he spent 25 years as cartoonist for '' La Presse'', where he created a number of series, including '' Les Aventures de Toinon'' from 1905 to 1908, and '' Les Fables du Parc Lafontaine'' from 1906 to 1908. In February 1905, he took over '' Le Père Ladébauche'' from Joseph Charlebois. This was the most famous comic strip in Québec at the time, and he continued with it until his 1957 retirement, also adapting ''Ladébauche'' for the theatre. He also created the humorous radio play, ''

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''. Bourgeois died on 11 November 1962 and was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal. He became one of the inaugural cartoonists inducted into the

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in 2005.

References

External links

The Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame

; 1876 births 1962 deaths Canadian cartoonists Quebec comics Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery The Boston Post people Canadian expatriates in the United States {{Canadian-comics-creator-stub