Adrian Raeside
Adrian Raeside | |
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Born | 1957 Dunedin,New Zealand |
Nationality | Canadian |
Area(s) | Editorial cartoonist, comic strip artist, author |
Adrian Raeside(born 1957 inDunedin,New Zealand)[1][2]is an author, comic strip creator and founder of an animation company.
Early years
[edit]He began drawing cartoons onwashroomwalls as a kid.[3]After being expelled from his first (and last) art class at the age of 15,[3]he moved with his parents toEngland,then toCanada.[1]While there, he worked at various jobs, from loading grain ships inThunder Bay,Ontario,to surveying on the West Coast.[3]Illustrating his mother Joan Raeside's children's books got him his start in the art business. Raeside began drawing editorial cartoons for theTimes Colonistin Victoria, British Columbia in 1979. He occupied the editorial cartoonist position until 2015, and after a break he returned to the newspaper in 2019. Raeside's editorial cartoons have been reprinted in hundreds of publications worldwide.
Career
[edit]Raeside founded and operated an animation company in 1988 to animate editorial cartoons forCBC Television.[2]Over the next four years, he created, directed and produced dozens of animated shows forTurner BroadcastingandChildren's Television Workshop,adapting twoJim HensonMuppetcharacters for animation.[2]Raeside adapted the bookThe Way Things Workas an animated series being broadcast onBBC.[2]Raeside left animation production in 1992[2]but has since written dozens of scripts for animation, series that includes Atomic Betty, The Amazing Adrenalinis and Pirate Express.
In 1990 he createdThe Other Coastcomic strip which features two dogs and looks at life from a dog's perspective. The Other Coast appears in hundreds of publications, worldwide.
Raeside is the author of sixteen books, includingThere Goes the Neighbourhood,an irreverent history of Canada;The Demented Decade;and5 Twisted Years.Raeside also wrote and illustrated the popularDennis the Dragonseries of children's books.[2][4]In 2009 he publishedReturn to Antarctica,an account of his grandfather Sir Charles (Silas) Wrights' experience on Captain Robert Scott's 1910 British Antarctic Expedition to be first to reach the South Pole, which resulted in the death of Scott and four companions. Raeside researched the book by travelling to Cape Evans, in the Ross Sea, following in his grandfather's footsteps. Raeside is also related to two other members of the Scott Expedition: Sir Raymond Priestley and Griffith Taylor. Beside the book Return to Antarctica, Raeside produced a1-hour documentaryof the same name.
In 2012No Sailing Waits and Other Ferry Tales,a collection of A collection of BC ferry-related editorial cartoons was published by Harbour Publishing, followed by a collection of dog-related strips fromThe Other Coaststrip calledTails don't Lie - a Decade of Dog Cartoons (70 in Dog Years)also published by Harbour publishing in 2013, remaining on the bestseller list for over 6 months. Raeside wrote and illustratedThe Rainbow Bridge - A Visit to Pet Paradise(Harbour 2012) as a way to comfort those who have lost a pet. Raeside latest book:The Best of Adrian Raeside - A Treasury of BC Cartoons(Harbour 2014) is a collection of the best of his BC-related editorial cartoons.
Adrian Raeside lives inWhistler, British Columbia.[2]
References
[edit]- ^abBenson, Nigel (20 Dec 2008)."Cartoonist traces lifeline".Otago Daily Times.Retrieved2009-08-22.
- ^abcdefg"Raeside Bio".Adrian Raeside official web site.Archived fromthe originalon 2009-10-06.Retrieved2009-08-22.
- ^abc"About Adrian Raeside".creators.com.Retrieved2009-08-22.
- ^Chun, Gary C.W. (July 1, 2008)."New cartoonists go for laughs".Honolulu Star-Bulletin.Retrieved2009-08-22.