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You Can Take The Boy Outta Cookstown, but...

Posted by Jeff WIlson on Thursday, June 21, 2012, In : Canadian Comics 


RURAL ROUTE - Walter Ball (Toronto Star Weekly)

Walter Ball was born to a farming family near Cookstown, Ontario in 1911 and grew up with designs of becoming a Electrical Engineer upon reaching adulthood, but fate chose a different path entirely for him. Newspapers & magazines were the most accessible media in the day and Walter's dreams were swept up in ads for mail-order drawing lessons. Often, the first lesson was sent free, costing just a postage stamp on the letter of request for the less...
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Tiniest Legacies Linger Longest

Posted by Jeff WIlson on Saturday, September 3, 2011, In : Canadian Comics 
 

© Jeff Wilson 2011
(drawn at age 14/15.)


    There are very few things in life that we do at a moment's notice that will linger in someone's memory for a lifetime, but there are one or two things that do. I have been fortunate to have found one thing that I did, that lives on in people's scrapbooks, their personal files, a basket in their living room and most importantly, in their hearts.
    A personalized cartoon greeting card.
    You may ask, how this could possibly happen. The person...

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