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'''Adrian Raeside''' is an [[editorial]] [[cartoonist]] for the ''[[Victoria Times-Colonist]]''.<ref name="Otago"/> He was born in 1957 in [[Dunedin, New Zealand]]. <ref name="Raeside Bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.raesidecartoon.com/bio/index.html|title=Raeside Bio|work=Adrian Raeside official web site|accessdate=2009-08-22}}</ref><ref name="Otago">{{cite web|url=http://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/arts/36838/cartoonist-traces-lifeline|title=Cartoonist traces lifeline|last=Benson|first=Nigel|date=20 Dec 2008|work=Otago Daily Times|accessdate=2009-08-22}}</ref> |
'''Adrian Raeside''' (born 1957) is an [[editorial]] [[cartoonist]] for the ''[[Victoria Times-Colonist]]''.<ref name="Otago"/> He was born in 1957 in [[Dunedin, New Zealand]]. <ref name="Raeside Bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.raesidecartoon.com/bio/index.html|title=Raeside Bio|work=Adrian Raeside official web site|accessdate=2009-08-22}}</ref><ref name="Otago">{{cite web|url=http://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/arts/36838/cartoonist-traces-lifeline|title=Cartoonist traces lifeline|last=Benson|first=Nigel|date=20 Dec 2008|work=Otago Daily Times|accessdate=2009-08-22}}</ref> |
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He began drawing cartoons on [[washroom]] walls as a kid.<ref name="creators.com"/> After being expelled from his first (and last) art class at the age of 15,<ref name="creators.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.creators.com/comics/the-other-coast-about.html|title=About Adrian Raeside|work=creators.com|accessdate=2009-08-22}}</ref> he moved with his parents to [[England]], then to [[Canada]].<ref name="Otago"/> While there, he worked at various jobs, from loading grain ships in [[Thunder Bay]], [[Ontario]], to surveying on the West Coast.<ref name="creators.com"/> His comic, ''[[The Other Coast]]'', was picked up by [[Creators Syndicate]] in 2001 and has appeared in over 100 newspapers worldwide.<ref name="Raeside Bio"/><ref name="Dallas Morning News">{{cite web|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/texasliving/columnists/mpeters/stories/091204dnlivnewcomics.fa48eeed.html|title=Raeside's 'The Other Coast' covers a lot of territory|last=Peters|first=Mike|date=September 12, 2004|work=Dallas Morning News|accessdate=2009-08-22}}</ref> |
He began drawing cartoons on [[washroom]] walls as a kid.<ref name="creators.com"/> After being expelled from his first (and last) art class at the age of 15,<ref name="creators.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.creators.com/comics/the-other-coast-about.html|title=About Adrian Raeside|work=creators.com|accessdate=2009-08-22}}</ref> he moved with his parents to [[England]], then to [[Canada]].<ref name="Otago"/> While there, he worked at various jobs, from loading grain ships in [[Thunder Bay]], [[Ontario]], to surveying on the West Coast.<ref name="creators.com"/> His comic, ''[[The Other Coast]]'', was picked up by [[Creators Syndicate]] in 2001 and has appeared in over 100 newspapers worldwide.<ref name="Raeside Bio"/><ref name="Dallas Morning News">{{cite web|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/texasliving/columnists/mpeters/stories/091204dnlivnewcomics.fa48eeed.html|title=Raeside's 'The Other Coast' covers a lot of territory|last=Peters|first=Mike|date=September 12, 2004|work=Dallas Morning News|accessdate=2009-08-22}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 17:09, 18 December 2009
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| Nationality | Canadian |
| Area(s) | Editorial cartoonist |
Adrian Raeside (born 1957) is an editorial cartoonist for the Victoria Times-Colonist.[1] He was born in 1957 in Dunedin, New Zealand. [2][1]
He began drawing cartoons on washroom walls 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 to England, then to Canada.[1] While there, he worked at various jobs, from loading grain ships in Thunder Bay, Ontario, to surveying on the West Coast.[3] His comic, The Other Coast, was picked up by Creators Syndicate in 2001 and has appeared in over 100 newspapers worldwide.[2][4]
Raeside founded and operated an animation company in 1988 to animate editorial cartoons for CBC Television.[2] Over the next four years, he created, directed and produced dozens of animated shows for Turner Broadcasting and Children's Television Workshop, adapting two Jim Henson Muppet characters for animation.[2] Raeside adapted the book The Way Things Work as an animated series being broadcast on BBC.[2] Raeside left the animation business in 1992.[2]
Raeside is the author of eleven books, including There Goes the Neighbourhood, an irreverent history of Canada; The Demented Decade; and 5 Twisted Years. Raeside also wrote and illustrated the popular Dennis the Dragon series of children's books. [2][5]
Adrian Raeside lives in Whistler, British Columbia.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Benson, Nigel (20 Dec 2008). "Cartoonist traces lifeline". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Raeside Bio". Adrian Raeside official web site. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
- ^ a b c "About Adrian Raeside". creators.com. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
- ^ Peters, Mike (September 12, 2004). "Raeside's 'The Other Coast' covers a lot of territory". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
- ^ Chun, Gary C.W. (July 1, 2008). "New cartoonists go for laughs". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
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