Doug Sneyd
{{Short description|Canadian cartoonist (1931–2025)}}
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Doug Sneyd (December 14, 1931 – January 21, 2025) was a Canadian cartoonist, known for his work for newspapers and magazines, among them Playboy.
Life and career
Sneyd was born in Guelph, one of seven siblings. He took the Famous Artists drawing correspondence course.{{Cite web |last=Oregonian/OregonLive |first=Steve Duin {{!}} For The |date=2009-04-06 |title=Playboy Cartoonist Doug Sneyd |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/steveduin/2009/04/playboys_doug_sneyd.html |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=oregonlive |language=en}} After graduation, he worked as a commercial and portrait artist in Montreal and Toronto and contributed as a freelance artist for magazines and textbooks, and then for newspapers such as The Toronto Star.{{Cite news |last=Köhler |first=Nicholas |date=2021-03-01 |title=Hef's bosom buddy |work=Maclean's |url=https://macleans.ca/culture/hefs-bosom-buddy/ |access-date=2023-05-06}}
In 1963 he went to Chicago to show his portfolio to the editors of Playboy; hoping to do illustrations for them, he was asked to do gag cartoons. Sneyd objected at first but accepted upon learning cartoonists were very well-paid.{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/erotic-comics-a-graphic-history-volume-1-from-birth-to-the-1970s|title=Erotic Comics A Graphic History, Volume 1 From Birth To The 1970s|via=Internet Archive}} He drew more than 450 cartoons for the magazine, until 2016.
He also drew syndicated editorial cartoons and the comic strip SCOOPS for newspapers in Canada and the U.S., and illustrated children's books.{{Cite web|url=https://canadianaci.ca/Encyclopedia/scoops/|title=SCOOPS | Canadian Animation, Cartooning and Illustration}} In 1969, he moved with his family to Orillia.{{Cite web |last=admin |date=2022-08-16 |title=Magazine Cartoons: Meet Doug Sneyd |url=https://animationresources.org/pinups-meet-doug-sneyd-2/ |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=AnimationResources.org - Serving the Online Animation Community |language=en-US}} He was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Book Illustrators and a member of the National Cartoonists Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. In 1993 he wrote, produced, and directed Black Eyed Susan, an educational short film about domestic violence for the government of Ontario.{{Cite web |last=Pitman |first=Randy |date=1994-11-11 |title=Black-Eyed Susan |url=https://videolibrarian.com/reviews/black-eyed-susan |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=videolibrarian.com |language=en-us}}
Sneyd died at Soldiers' Memorial Hospital in Orillia, on January 21, 2025, at the age of 93.{{Cite web |title=Douglas "Doug" Mord Sneyd Obituary January 21, 2025 |url=https://www.mundellfuneralhome.com/tributes/douglas-doug-sneyd |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=Mundell Funeral Home |language=en}}
Collected works
- The Art of Doug Sneyd, 2016, Dark Horse Books.
- Secret Sneyd: The Unpublished Cartoons of Doug Sneyd, 2017, Dark Horse books
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20180206072329/http://www.dougsneyd.com/ Official site (archived)]
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Category:Canadian illustrators
Category:Canadian editorial cartoonists
Category:Canadian children's book illustrators
Category:Canadian comics artists