Wyatt Tremblay is a Canadian

editorial cartoon A political cartoon, also known as an editorial cartoon, is a cartoon graphic with caricatures of public figures, expressing the artist's opinion. An artist who writes and draws such images is known as an editorial cartoonist. They typically co ...

ist who has worked for the ''

Yukon News ''Yukon News'' a weekly newspaper in Whitehorse, Yukon. It publishes Wednesday and Friday and is owned by Black Press. History The newspaper was founded in 1960. Until the late 1970s, it was printed weekly until the late 1970s. It currently pr ...

'' since 1992.

Personal life

Born in 1960 in

Jasper, Alberta Jasper is a specialized municipality and townsite in western Alberta within the Canadian Rockies. The townsite is in the Athabasca River valley and is the commercial centre of Jasper National Park. History Established in 1813, Jasper ...

, he completed his schooling at F.H. Collins high school in

Whitehorse Whitehorse () is the capital of Yukon, and the largest city in Northern Canada. It was incorporated in 1950 and is located at kilometre 1426 (Historic Mile 918) on the Alaska Highway in southern Yukon. Whitehorse's downtown and Riverdale areas ...

Yukon Yukon () is a Provinces and territories of Canada, territory of Canada, bordering British Columbia to the south, the Northwest Territories to the east, the Beaufort Sea to the north, and the U.S. state of Alaska to the west. It is Canada’s we ...

in 1978, with the intention of becoming an

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but with the desire to become a

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the litera ...

. He worked at many different jobs, except as an accountant, until he landed the position of editorial cartoonist for the ''Yukon News'' in 1992. This has led to numerous awards from the

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, B.C./Yukon Newspaper Association and the B.C. Newspaper Foundation. He is also a member of the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists. In 2003, he published a retrospective book on

politics for the years 1992 to 2003.

External links

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Yukon News homepage
1960 births Canadian editorial cartoonists Living people Artists from Alberta Artists from Yukon People from Jasper, Alberta People from Whitehorse {{Canadian-comics-creator-stub