Peter Whalley

Peter Whalley (February 21, 1921 – September 18, 2007) was a Canadian caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator and sculptor.^[1]

Whalley was born in Brockville, Ontario, went to King's Collegiate School in Windsor, Nova Scotia until 1937,^[2] and attended the Nova Scotia College of Art.^[1] After serving with the Canadian Merchant Marine during the Second World War,^[1] he later established himself in Montreal as a prominent humorist, beginning in the 1940s with the Montreal Standard.^[1] He would become well known in the 1960s and 1970s doing covers for Maclean's, Weekend and the Montrealer magazines.^[1]

He used a distinctive stripped-down style to send up the cultural and political life of Canada. As an illustrator, he collaborated on works with Eric Nicol^[1] and John Robert Colombo,^[3] among others.^[1]

In 1965, Whalley won first prize for Political Cartooning at the International Salon of Caricature and Cartoon.^[4] In 2007, he was inducted into the Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame.^[5]

He died in a hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, aged 86.

• Nicol, Eric (2003). Canadian Politics Unplugged. Illustrations by Peter Whalley; introduction by Stuart McLean. Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1-55002-466-1.

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