It's always fun to see what Melissa's wearing each day at Fan Expo Canada. She's the owner/designer of handmade Steampunk clothing and accessories; Attic Raiders is based in Edmonton, Alberta.
Since his first Playboy cartoon was published in September 1964, Doug has submitted thousands of cartoon gag roughs; obviously not all can be selected for final art and publication in the magazine.
Enjoy this unpublished Thanksgiving cartoon gag rough!
Blacksmith Bill Fedun (from the South Tower Armouring Guild in Metcalfe, Ontario) stopped by with Mab Wilson to say "hello" and show Doug Mab's custom armour and chain mail costume, which she designed and then produced with assistance from one of Bill's students at the Guild.
Doug and I always enjoy visiting with Chris Houston, Marketing Director for Tourmaline Editions, Inc. The booth at Fan Expo Canada offers great value and selection of DK books, our favorite guidebook when traveling.
Doug has been a cartoonist for Playboy magazine since 1964.
For nearly 20 years, starting in the mid-60's, his "Doug Sneyd" and "Scoops" news cartoons appeared daily in newspapers across North America. Sneyd's talent has also led him into cinema: in 1993, he wrote, produced and directed "Black-eyed Susan," an educational movie-drama about spousal abuse, for the Ontario government. He was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Book Illustrators and has been a member of the National Cartoonists' Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Thirty of his full-page color Playboy cartoons are among the 235 Sneyd works included in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
Sneyd was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, but spent much of his professional career in Toronto. In 1969 he moved his family north to Orillia made famous as the mythical "Mariposa" by humorist Stephen Leacock. He works on the third floor of his home-studio overlooking beautiful Lake Couchiching and spends his winters on the Gulf Coast in Orange Beach, Alabama.