Harry Joseph Brunt (November 22, 1918 – August 12, 1987) was a
Canadian
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cartoonist who made significant humorous contributions during the era of the
Canadian Whites. He is the father of
Stephen Brunt, a
sports columnist
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for ''
The Globe and Mail
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''.
Biography
Born in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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in 1918, Brunt's family moved to
Simcoe, Ontario
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, several years later. He became an artist, and started to work for
Bell Features around Christmas 1943.
His contributions to the Canadian Whites were generally
featurette
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s of 2–3 pages in length, cartoony and goofy in nature, whose titles heavily drew on
alliteration
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. Titles included ''Goofy Gags'', ''Barnacle Bull'', ''Kernel Korn'', ''Professor Punk'', ''Loop the Droop'', ''Lank the Yank'', and ''Buz and his Bus''. The only title that broke the pattern was his final creation, ''J. C. Flatbottom'', which may have had an autobiographical character. A self-caricature figured in one of the later ''Lank the Yank'' stories.
After
World War II
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, Brunt settled in the Hamilton area. He drew
editorial cartoon
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s for ''
The Simcoe Reformer'' during the war, sports cartoons for the ''
Hamilton Spectator
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History
''The Hami ...
'' in the 1950s, and editorial cartoons later on for the ''Georgetown Independent'' in the 1970s. He was also a
painter, and an exhibition of his work was held in
Georgetown, Ontario in 1973.
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Brunt died in 1987 at the
McMaster University Medical Centre
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in Hamilton, after a lengthy illness.
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1918 births
1987 deaths
Canadian cartoonists
20th-century Canadian painters
Canadian male painters
Artists from Chicago
Artists from Hamilton, Ontario
American emigrants to Canada
20th-century Canadian male artists