Len Norris

Len Norris

Leonard Matheson Norris, better known as Len Norris (1913 in London, England - 1997 in Langley, Canada), was a longtime editorial cartoonist for the Canadian newspaper "Vancouver Sun" from 1950 to 1988. Called by Walt Kelly, the creator of Pogo, "the best in the business", Norris' cartoons skewered the foibles of British Columbia politics and social mores with a barbed pencil. His intricate drawings were full of subtle detail, with several sideplots tucked into the frame, with everything from sardonic pictures on the living room wall to what the kids or the cat are doing in the corner while the main action is going on, typically with painfully ironic dialogue. Norris cartoons remain popular today even though much of their original political or social context is gone.

Recurring themes and characters in Norris cartoons included the sarcastic Amblesnide and Tiddlycove, a parody of the tweedy West Vancouver neighbourhoods of Ambleside and Dundarave; "Rodney", a caricature of an anglo-centric monarchical Canadian; the "Socred cow" for the British Columbia government's liquor stores; and lampoons of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.

A copy of his cartoon, showing a mythical day in the famed Studio G at CBC Radio on Jarvis Street sometime in the early 60s, illustrating some of the luminaries of the great days of radio, has been preserved in the resurrected Celebrity Club at PAL Place in Toronto as a 15 foot mural.

External links

* [http://www.sfu.ca/aq/archives/nov2001/norris.html Simon Fraser University Len Norris Collection intro]
* [http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/projects/Norris-Collection/BrowseExhibition.htm SFU Online Len Norris Cartoon Archive]
* [http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/projects/Cartoons/ The SFU Library Editorial Cartoons Collection]


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