![]() In the sixties, Jack Tremblay wrote and illustrated eight of the 12 books in the series The Story of Canada for Brunswick books again. In 1955 he adapted and illustrated Ten Canadian Legends (A Story from Each Province) published by Brunswick Press out of Fredericton. In the late forties he worked at ad agencies as a freelance artist. 4 (March/April 1943).Īfter turning 18, Jack Tremblay began training in the Paratroop Corps of the Canadian Forces from September 1944 to September 1945 but the war was brought to an abrupt end with the Atomic Bomb before he could see any action. He drew this feature for two more issues until it was handed over to Andre Kulbach in issue No. ![]() In October of 1942 another of his strips entitled “Wings over the Atlantic” began in the first issue of another Bell Features title called Commando Comics ![]() “Crash Carson” ran for about a year-and-a-half until Wow Comics No. 8 (May/June 1942) just around the time he was turning 16.Īt this time Jack had just begun his first year of art school at Ecole des Beaux-arts in Montreal and studied there with Stanley Collins and Alfred Pellan. Three issues after he had won the contest, his work was published in Wow Comics No. With his name known to Bell Features through the contest, Tremblay mailed them in a sample of a strip called “Crash Carson” that he had been working on during the previous winter. ![]() His name received special mention as one of the winners, garnering him a shiny new pair of roller skates. 1941) and three issues later in Wow Comics No. ![]() In the fall of 1941, Jack Tremblay entered a drawing contest that was announced in Wow Comics No. His family moved to Fort William (now called Thunder Bay) and finally, when he was eight, the family settled in Montreal. Like a good number of artists who worked on those Canadian war-time comics, sometimes popularly and affectionately called “Canadian Whites,” Jack Tremblay was born outside of the country in Providence, Rhode Island in May of 1926. Guest author, Ivan Kocmarek takes a look at one of the artists who drew those comics. During WWII, with American comics unavailable due to a wartime embargo on "non-essential mail", homegrown Canadian comic books flourished. ![]()
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