In a new biography Terry Mosher writes about one of this country's most important political cartoonist, Duncan Macpherson. (From the archives)
“Lots of people knew Duncan Macpherson, so what qualifies me to write a book about him, other than the fact that I admired him and am still standing?” asks Terry Mosher, in his new biography of the artist. “Well, no one else seems to be doing it.” Macpherson, who was arguably Canada’s most important political cartoonist, was also a mentor to Mosher . “I consider this work to be a bit of payback for the great professional advice he gave me back in the 1970s when we became friends,” he says.
Christina McCall was a great Canadian journalist, who, with her husband Stephen Clarkson, wrote a much-lauded biography of Pierre Trudeau . In an introduction to Macpherson’s 1978 collection of cartoons, she recalled an enlightening conversation with Duncan when she was a 22-year-old researcher at. “I was just out of university—earnest, ambitious and in awe of managing editor, Pierre Berton.”
Although he is almost forgotten now, Allen was as popular a humorist in the 1950s, 60s and 70s as Stephen Leacock had been in his day. Allen played an important role in the evolution of Duncan Macpherson’s career.
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