Harry Brunt

Harry Brunt

Professor Punk, one of Brunt's creations[1]
Born Harry Joseph Brunt
(1918-11-22)November 22, 1918
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died August 12, 1987(1987-08-12) (aged 68)
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Area(s) Cartoonist

Harry Joseph Brunt (November 22, 1918 – August 12, 1987) was a Canadian cartoonist that made significant humourous contributions during the era of the Canadian Whites. He is the father of Stephen Brunt, a sports columnist for The Globe and Mail.[2]

Biography

Born in Chicago in 1918, Brunt's family moved to Hamilton, Ontario, several years later.[3] He became an artist, and started to work for Bell Features around Christmas 1943.[3]

His contributions to the Canadian Whites were generally featurettes of 2–3 pages in length, cartoony and goofy in nature, whose titles heavily drew on alliteration.[3] Titles included Goofy Gags, Barnacle Bull, Kernel Korn, Professor Punk, Loop the Droop, Lank the Yank, and Buz and his Bus.[3] The only title that broke the pattern was his final creation, J. C. Flatbottom, which may have had an autobiographical character.[3]

After World War II, Brunt settled in the Hamilton area. He drew editorial cartoons for the Hamilton Spectator in the 1950s, and later 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.[4]

Brunt died in 1987 at the McMaster University Medical Centre in Hamilton, after a lengthy illness.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Hirsh & Loubert 1971, p. 95.
  2. ↑ Mahoney, Jeff (June 3, 2016). "Hamilton marking, and making, comic book history this weekend". Hamilton Spectator.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kocmarek 2014.
  4. ↑ "Dans les galeries de..." (PDF). Vie des arts. Montreal (69): 83. 1972–1973. Listing for "Harry Brunt, peintre naïf".

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