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Susan Dewar fonds [graphic material (some electronic)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1984-2022.

Reference:

R2559-0-2-E

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

160181

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Susan Dewar fonds
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Fonds includes:

2576 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1984-2022.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

4137 drawings : pen and ink and/or coloured pencils and wash.
2.82 GB of drawings (1602 files).

Language of material:

English
Accession:

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Susan Dewar fonds [graphic material]

Susan Dewar fonds [graphic material]

Susan Dewar fonds [graphic material]
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Collection comprises original editorial cartoons, created by Susan Dewar, and published until 1988 in the Calgary Sun and subsequently the Ottawa Sun and Toronto Sun.

Predominantly national in scope, Dewar also lampoons the provincial and international players and arenas. The political tenures of Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, John Turner, Preston Manning, Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper are examined, together with many of their key Cabinet Ministers. Cabinet Ministers include Michael Wilson, Don Mazankowski, Joe Clark, Barbara McDougall, John Crosbie, Kim Campbell, Jean Charest, Paul Martin, Allan Rock, Sheila Copps, David Collenette, and Lloyd Axworthy. Opposition leaders include Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe.

Provincial Premiers include Bob Rae, Don Getty, Ralph Klein, Mike Harris, Jacques Parizeau, Lucien Bouchard, Brian Tobin, Clyde Wells, Gary Filmon, and Dalton McGuinty.

Issues of note include federal-provincial wrangling and Constitutional debates; transfer payments; Quebec separatism and national and provincial referendums; government cut-backs in both the Alberta and Ontario and their effects on social programs, education and health services; gun control; fishing disputes; environmental issues; the economy, unemployment and taxes; the Somalian and tainted blood scandals; the amendments to the Young Offender's Act and rising urban crime rates; women's equality; the C.B.C., and election campaigns and results. International issues include the dissolution of the Soviet empire, Middle East conflicts, the Gulf War, Canada-U.S. relations, terrorism; foreign leaders portrayed include George Bush Sr. and George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Saddam Hussein, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev and Manual Noriega.

A 2004 accrual includes work from Susan Dewar's first job as editorial cartoonist for the Calgary Sun, in the early 1980s, up until her transfer from the Ottawa office to Toronto in 1999.

An accrual from 2022 updated the fonds to include born-digital and digitally altered cartoons, as well as additional analogue material through to 2010.

Provenance:

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Dewar, Susan, 1949-

Biography/Administrative history:

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Dewar, Susan, 1949- : Cartoonist. Susan Dewar worked as a teacher prior to several years of freelance work in the area of commercial art in Toronto. She began publishing her cartoons in the Calgary Sun in 1984, shortly thereafter attaining a position as their full-time cartoonist. In 1987, she won the National Business Writing Award for her political drawings. In October 1988, she left Calgary to join the staff of the Ottawa Sun. For several years, Dewar worked with American cartoonist Wylie Miller, producing a syndicated cartoon strip entitled "Him and Her" in which they alternated the production. In 2000, the cartoonist moved to Toronto in order to take up the position of editorial cartoonist at the Toronto Sun.

Her work often features the bewildered citizen, coping with an ever-increasing tax load and confused by never-ending constitutional debates. A reappearing character is the pragmatic Edith, habitually dressed in curlers and flamboyant cat's eye glasses. See various issues of "Portfoolio", the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists' annual compendium of a selection of the best cartoons of the year.

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Graphic (Electronic) Works from accession pre-dating 2005 have been item-level catalogued in the Minisis-ICON data base and have been subject index catalogued. A 2006 accrual is described in an Excel spreadsheet which is available on the accession file. (90: Open)

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Source of title:

Title based on the creator of the fonds. Titles for drawings are supplied based on text in the drawing, subject matter and the people depicted.

Arrangement note:

Cartoons from the 2022 accession and later are arranged into series for the analogue drawings for each year represented and the born-digital or digitally altered drawings for each year represented. Cartoons that were acquired prior to the 2022 accession are assigned item numbers under the fonds level.
Subject heading:

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Editorial cartoons Canada

Canada 1984-1993

Canada 1993-2006
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1999-01232-1
2003-00029-1
2005-00055-8
2007-00042-3
2008-00789-8
2022-00036-6
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Originals may be consulted in the specialized media area of Reference Service for Library and Archives Canada.

Volume [R2559] 2135--2143

[Consultation 90 Open]

2135 Item no. assigned by LAC 2135--2270

[Consultation 90 Open]

2136 Item no. assigned by LAC 2271--2400

[Consultation 90 Open]

2137 Item no. assigned by LAC 2401--2560

[Consultation 90 Open]

2138 Item no. assigned by LAC 2561--2680

[Consultation 90 Open]

2139 Item no. assigned by LAC 2681--2800

[Consultation 90 Open]

2140 Item no. assigned by LAC 2801--2910

[Consultation 90 Open]

2141 Item no. assigned by LAC 2911--3060

[Consultation 90 Open]

2142 Item no. assigned by LAC 3061--3180

[Consultation 90 Open]

2143 Item no. assigned by LAC 3181--3293

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R2559] 2144--2150

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

Item no. assigned by LAC [R2559] 1--2134

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art): electronic

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]

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Copyright: Susan Dewar and/or Toronto Sun.
Credit: Library and Archives Canada.

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Date modified:: 2024-06-12