Philip Street (born 1959) is a

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and

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who lives in Toronto. He lived in

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during his childhood and studied English at St. Michael's College in

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, as well as classical animation at

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. He lived in

Kingston, Ontario Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located on the north-eastern end of Lake Ontario, at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River (south end of the Rideau Canal). The city is midway between Toro ...

, before moving to Toronto. From 1990 to 1997 he was art director of ''Compass'', and subsequently became the founding art director of ''Voices Across Boundaries''. He drew the

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'', which appeared daily in ''

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'' until 8 September 2012. An earlier strip, ''Rip Trousers'', ran in the ''

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'' in 1993 and 1994. Since 1998 he has also been a

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at the

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, where he has worked on ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. He has also directed 76 episodes of ''

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'' for ''

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''.

References

External links

''Compass''

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"Northrop Frye as Yoda taken from a cartoon in University of Toronto's The Newspaper" by Philip Street. Victoria University Library, Digital Collections.

"Fisher Comics"
1959 births Living people Canadian comic strip cartoonists Canadian people of English descent People from Huron County, Ontario People from Kingston, Ontario Artists from Toronto University of Toronto alumni Date of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-artist-stub