Bruce MacKinnon

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Not to be confused with the British actor Bruce Mackinnon.

Bruce MacKinnon (born 1961) is a Canadian editorial cartoonist for the Halifax Chronicle Herald. He is the recipient of several awards of excellence for his work.

He was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where he attended high school and later studied arts at St. Francis Xavier University. As a youth he also lived with his family in Kingston, Ontario, and Truro and Halifax, Nova Scotia.[1] He studied Fine Arts at Mount Allison University and graphic design at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.[2]

His first paid work as a cartoonist came at the age of 14, when he began drawing a weekly cartoon for The Casket in Antigonish. In high school and university in Antigonish, he drew cartoons for the Antigonish Spectator and the Xaverian Weekly, respectively.

In 1985, MacKinnon began drawing weekly cartoons for the Halifax Chronicle Herald, and was hired full-time in 1986, filling a gap on the paper's editorial page that had been present ever since the retirement of its long-time cartoonist Bob Chambers in 1976. With the redesign of the Herald's weekend edition in April 2013, his hand-drawn font was used for all the headlines in the "Opinion" section.[3]

Since becoming the paper's regular cartoonist, MacKinnon has achieved status as one of Canada's finest editorial cartoonists, called by the Canadian Encyclopedia, "among the new breed of distinguished artists" in Canadian editorial cartooning.[4] To date he has won 14 Atlantic Journalism Awards for editorial cartooning, two National Newspaper Awards (1992 and 1993), and came in second in the World Press Cartoon competition in 2004.[1][2] Both a popular and at times controversial cartoonist, he was named Best Political Cartoonist in Halifax for several years running by The Coast newspaper before it elevated him to their Hall of Fame, thus retiring him from further contest.[1]

In 1996 he was granted an honorary doctorate by St. Mary's University for his work and in 2011 he was made a member of the Order of Nova Scotia. In 2013 he received both an honorary doctorate of fine arts from NSCAD university and the Friend of StFX Award from St. Francis Xavier University.[5] He had not graduated from NSCAD before he began cartooning full-time.[6]

He is married and has two children.

Publications

  • Inklings: Cartoons and caricatures, 1990
  • Inklings II: Cartoons and caricatures, 1994
  • Pendemonium: Cartoons & Caricatures, Nimbus, 2002
  • Penetration [collected cartoons], Nimbus/Halifax Herald, 2010[7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Knox, Carsten (2009). "Best Political Cartoonist". The Coast. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Bruce MacKinnon". Member Profiles. AAEC. Retrieved 5 May 2013. 
  3. ↑ Le Pierrès, Laurent (April 18, 2013). "Bev leaves me holding the bag — full of goodies". Chronicle Herald. Retrieved 12 May 2013. 
  4. ↑ "Political Cartoons". Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica-Dominion. Retrieved 5 May 2013. 
  5. ↑ "StFX to welcome home alumni from North America and Beyond". 
  6. ↑ "Bruce MacKinnon, Martha Wilson to get honorary NSCAD degrees". Chronicle Herald. April 29, 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2013. 
  7. ↑ "Bruce MacKinnon". Author Bios. Nimbus. Retrieved 5 May 2013. 

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