Sandy Carruthers
Sandy Carruthers is a Canadian artist and graphic design instructor, known for his work as the first illustrator of the original Men in Black comic book series, and as creator of the webcomic series, Canadiana: the New Spirit of Canada. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1962.
Life
Carruthers describes his earliest memory of anything comic book related as watching Batman on TV when he was three. He began drawing at four when he recreated a drawing of a robot stamp. Even at this early age, he was able to accurately produce a large version of this stamp.
Carruthers trained at Holland College between 1979-1980 in its Commercial Design Program (later renamed Graphic Design) which he now teaches. He also attended Sheridan College in Ontario, taking its Illustration program.
He currently resides in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Works
Carruthers first started working in comics at Malibu Graphics and worked on many black and white titles. His biggest success was The Men in Black (comic), which he illustrated, the comic later becoming a film, Men in Black. He also worked on Captain Canuck. He worked as the Editorial Cartoonist for the Charlottetown Guardian newspaper. He published a book of his editorial cartoons entitled Sh-It Happened.
He is currently working on a graphic novel for Lerner Publishers (Minneapolis, U.S.)which has been published entitled 'Yu the Great'. He is currently working on his third graphic novel for Lerner
His other main work is the webcomic Canadiana, also known as the New Spirit of Canada. Began in 2004, it draws heavily on the traditions of the superhero genre, centred on the adventures and personal life of Jennifer Neuwirth. Carruthers is aided in chronicling Canadiana's adventures by penciller Jeff Alward and scripter Mark Shainblum, the latter of whom is known in Canadian comics as a practitioner of superhero genre deconstruction via Northguard and parody via Angloman. The series has resumed regular serialization in January 2007 with the assistance of artist Brenda Hickey.
Serialized in what was initially intended to be a weekly basis in fifty-two installments, but eventually settled into a semi-monthly framework, the origin story of Canadiana deals with several mature themes including religious theory and particularly afterlife possibilities, cult programming, parental betrayal, and the survival of sexual abuse in the course of explaining the beginnings of Jennifer Neuwirth's extraordinary abilities and her decision to adopt a costumed identity as a champion of Canada.
External links
- Sandy Carruthers official site, with some of his work.
- Canadiana, the New Spirit of Canada, updated with new installments on an irregular basis
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