Visiting Artist Presentation - Brian Gable

Brian Gable, the nationally renowned Globe and Mail cartoonist and U of S alumnus (BA'71) will present a Visiting Artist Lecture on:

Time: Friday, Oct. 23 from noon to 1 PM

Place: Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Murray Building

The following is a 16x9 conversation with the well-known cartoonist:

Gable will also give a presentation on "Political Cartooning and the Great War" on:

Time: Thursday, Oct. 22, 7:30 pm

Location: Neatby-Timlin Theatre (Arts 241)

Gable will also be receiving an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Saskatchewan during the fall convocation ceremonies on Oct. 24.

ABOUT BRIAN GABLE

Brian Gable was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1949. For the first ten years of his life he grew up on a farm near Rosthern, SK where, in that venerable prairie tradition, he attended a one-room school. In 1960 his family moved to Saskatoon, at that time a city of just under 100,000 citizens but for a 10-year-old farm boy, a teeming urban metropolis .

After attending Holliston School and Walter Murray Collegiate, Brian was accepted in 1965 into the Pre-Architecture program in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan. Calculus and its complexities came between Brian and the practice of architecture.

However, the Fine Arts classes of painting, design, drawing and English, which were part of the Pre-Architecture curriculum, spoke strongly to him and Brian became a Fine Arts major and an English minor. It was during a first-year English survey class that a fellow student, after noting Brian’s endless doodlings in the margins of his notes, mentioned that the Sheaf was looking for a cartoonist. Over the next three years he submitted cartoons to the student paper and was able to take his first tentative steps in learning about the craft of satire.

In 1971, having graduated with a BA from the U of S, Brian moved to Toronto and enrolled in the College of Education at the University of Toronto. Graduating with a B.Ed. in 1971, he taught secondary school art in Brockville, ON, for the next nine years. It was during this period in Brockville that Brian took up his cartoonist’s pen once more and began freelancing editorial cartoons for the local paper, The Brockville Recorder and Times.

In 1980, Brian was hired by the Regina Leader-Post as an editorial cartoonist. He remained with that paper until 1987, when he accepted a position as editorial cartoonist for The Globe and Mail, a position that he holds until the present time.

Brian’s work has been published in numerous publications including The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Time Magazine, The Guardian, Prospect Magazine and numerous other publications. He has been nominated for a National Newspaper Award 15 times and has won the award six times.

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