Philip Street
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Philip Street | |
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Born | 1959 (age 64–65) |
Nationality | Canadian |
Area(s) | Cartoonist |
Notable works | Fisher |
www.fishercomic.com |
Philip Street (born 1959) is a Canadian cartoonist and animator who lives in Toronto. He lived in Blyth, Ontario during his childhood and studied English at St. Michael's College in Toronto, as well as classical animation at Sheridan College. He lived in Kingston, Ontario, 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 satirical slice-of-life comic strip Fisher, which appeared daily in The Globe and Mail until 8 September 2012. An earlier strip, Rip Trousers, ran in the Kingston Whig-Standard in 1993 and 1994.
Since 1998 he has also been a graphic designer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where he has worked on Sesame Park, CBC Kids and The Nature of Things. He has also directed 76 episodes of Peter Puck for Hockey Night in Canada.
References
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[edit]- Compass
- Voices Across Boundaries
- McLeod, Susanna (9 March 2007). "Interview with Philip Street, Creator of "Fisher"". The Cartoonists. Archived from the original on November 30, 2010. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - "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 comics writers
- Canadian comics artists
- Canadian satirical comics artists
- Canadian satirists
- Canadian people of English descent
- People from Huron County, Ontario
- People from Kingston, Ontario
- Artists from Toronto
- University of Toronto alumni
- Canadian comics creator stubs
- Canadian artist stubs