Teenage Survival Handbook: Allison Preswick
Allison grew up in beautiful British Columbia, and has loved drawing since she could pick up a pencil. Ever since discovering her brother’s comic book collection at 12 years old, her favorite hobby has been to write and draw her own comics... more

Elementary Safety Book for Children: Nelson Garcia
Nelson graduated with honors in 2002 from the 2D Animation Department at VFS. He is a Juno Award winning, multi-faceted artist with an established reputation of over 15 years experience as an illustrator, muralist, concept artist and 2D animator... more

Drug Facts for Young People: Agnes Wiguna
To pursue her passion for drawing (despite the last-minute nerve-racking decision), Agnes flew from the tropical equator to chilly Canada for Sheridan College’s Animation program... more

Teenage Survival Handbook: Ingrid Mesquita
Born and raised in beautiful British Columbia, Ingrid's two artistic parents influenced her to pursue a career in the arts... more

Drug Facts for Young People: Lettie Lo
Lettie was born in Toronto and currently makes her home in Oakville, Ontario. From doodling on school notebooks and restaurant napkins to painting on canvases, Lettie loves it all - whether it’s getting her hands dirty with paint or working digitally... more

Teenage Survival Handbook: Alison Acton
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Alison grew up in Richmond, a small town 20 minutes from Ottawa. Suburban living afforded lots of space for Alison to run around outside, get dirty, and enjoy nature. As a result, she enjoyed drawing and painting landscapes and animals since childhood, and was known to occasionally draw on the walls... more

The Elementary Safety Book: Ryan Browne
Ryan has been drawing as far back as he can remember, and is told that he picked up a pencil and started drawing before he learned to walk. Early on, he became engrossed with Saturday morning cartoons, Disney films, and comic books... more

Teenage Survival Handbook: Aaron Nauss
Given started drawing as a kid and hasn’t stopped since. Dedicated to injecting a little personality into everything he creates, he has won awards for his editorial cartoons and also for his work as a graphic designer... more

The Elementary Safety Book: Eric Peladeau
The quiet and gentle giant from the Capital region of Canada has been walking toward his dreams since he can remember. At a very young age Eric Peladeau fell in love with cartooning and spent most of his free time practicing the ninth art... more

Drug Facts for Young People: Ian MacLean
Ian MacLean was born in 1979 (a very good year) and raised in Pontypool, a ridiculously tiny town about an hour east of Toronto. Being without cable television, and able to receive only two blurry channels through the antenna, he had to amuse himself with fanciful stories of his own imagining, which he would occasionally spew forth onto paper... more

The Teenage Survival Handbook: Greg Moran
Greg, a born and bred Victorian, happily spent his early years drawing on the back of work forms that his father would bring home by the box-loads, starting an initial dabbling in drawing his comic  books... more

The Elementary Safety Book for Children: Stephen Downer
Stephen is 17 years old, home educated, and in his senior year of high school. Completely self-taught, Stephen started drawing at age 9 and just never stopped. He spends an average of 2 1/2-4 hours a day drawing, in addition to his school and a part-time job. With a portion of the winnings from this contest, Stephen plans to buy a new computer & a mountain bike. The rest will go into the bank, perhaps going toward art college... more

Drug Facts for Young People, 2005: Jeff Epp
Jeff, the youngest sibling of a boys-only family, was born and raised in one of Canada's southernmost towns, Harrow...a beautiful place to grow. Like every young budding artist, he began early developmental art with sidewalk chalk and a cul de sac full of pavement as his drawing board. Since colouring in-between the lines was a cinch and his creativity was uncapped by his childhood, he continued to sketch and create characters that filled his imagination and entertained his personality... more

The Teenage Survival Handbook, 2004: Henry Fong
Henry was born in Hong Kong and his family immigrated to Canada in 1986. He is a graduate of Sheridan College's internationally renowned Classical Animation Program. He also holds a visual arts diploma in illustration and photography. Henry has worked as a lighting artist at TFX Animation on the CG IMAX film, "The Boxer."... more

The Elementary Safety Book For Children, 2004: Gabriel Choquette
Gabriel was born and raised in Orleans, a French suburb outside of Ottawa. Fueled by a fascination with Saturday morning cartoons, his obsession with illustration and animation developed at an early age... more

Drug Facts for Young People, 2004: June Um
June was born in Korea and moved to Canada at age 12. She grew up in Vancouver, studying fine arts in various schools. Her multi-national background gave her an interest in both culture's art... more

The Teenage Survival Handbook, 2003: Brianne Drouhard
Brianne was born in Othello, WA. She grew up in the small farming town spending much of her free time drawing, sketching, and talking to cows. Her parents are farmers of the area and raise some gigantic mutant potatoes. She also has a younger brother who helped form her odd sense of humor... more

The Elementary Safety Book for Children, 2003: Al Kang
From the quiet streets of downtown London, Ontario to the vast wide expanses of the prairies, to the magnificent mountains of Vancouver, BC, Al Kang spent the formative years of his life travelling across Canada in his pursuit of becoming an illustrator and visionary filmmaker... more

Drug Facts for Young People, 2003: Rob Jones
Rob Jones was born in Victoria, BC and currently resides as an animator and Illustrator in Vancouver, BC. Upon being trained by various industry professionals, Rob continues to pursue his goals of becoming a recognized name in the animation and television industry... more

The Teenage Survival Handbook, 2002: Tyler Schroeder
Tyler Schroeder was born and raised in Swan River Manitoba. After high school Tyler moved to Vancouver, BC to work as a graphic designer and study classical animation at Vancouver Film School. Upon completeing studies at VFS, Tyler worked in the industry as an animator on various internet projects and then moved to Red Deer to work as a graphic designer and illustrator... more

The Elementary Safety Book for Children: Tanya Francis
Tanya was born in Olds, Alberta and spent much of her childhood moving from place to place. Through all the new towns, new schools and new faces, one thing never changed... more

Drug Facts for Young People, 2002: Mike Myhre
Mike Myhre was born and raised in Fort St. John, BC. He has been drawing as long as he could hold a pencil and was in the French Immersion program for the entire duration of his education... more

Drug Facts for Young People, The Elementary Safety Book for Children, The Teenage Survival Handbook, 1996 - 2001: Ben Wicks
Acclaimed cartoonist Ben Wicks was a pint-sized cockney who never lost his accent or his sense of humor.

Wicks make a name for himself in Canada, not only as a cartoonist, but as a journalist, TV personality, author, entrepreneur and humanitarian. A man of cheeky hammer... more