| Harry Brunt | |
|---|---|
 Professor Punk, one of Brunt's creations[1] | |
| Born | Harry Joseph Brunt (1918-11-22)November 22, 1918 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Died | August 12, 1987(1987-08-12) (aged 68) Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
Harry Joseph Brunt (November 22, 1918 – August 12, 1987) was an American-born Canadiancartoonist who made significant humorous contributions during the era of theCanadian Whites. He is the father ofStephen Brunt, asports columnist forThe Globe and Mail.[2]
Born inChicago in 1918, Brunt's family moved toSimcoe, Ontario, several years later.[3] He became an artist, and started to work forBell Features around Christmas 1943.[3]
His contributions to the Canadian Whites were generallyfeaturettes of 2–3 pages in length, cartoony and goofy in nature, whose titles heavily drew onalliteration.[3] Titles includedGoofy Gags,Barnacle Bull,Kernel Korn,Professor Punk,Loop the Droop,Lank the Yank, andBuz and his Bus.[3] The only title that broke the pattern was his final creation,J. C. Flatbottom, which may have had an autobiographical character.[3] A self-caricature figured in one of the laterLank the Yank stories.[4]
AfterWorld War II, Brunt settled in the Hamilton area. He dreweditorial cartoons forThe Simcoe Reformer during the war, sports cartoons for theHamilton Spectator in the 1950s, and editorial cartoons later on for theGeorgetown Independent in the 1970s.[5] He was also apainter, and an exhibition of his work was held inGeorgetown, Ontario in 1973.[6]
Brunt died in 1987 at theMcMaster University Medical Centre in Hamilton, after a lengthy illness.[3]