Peter Whalley

{{Short description|Canadian caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator and sculptor}}

{{for|the English clergyman, academic and schoolmaster|Peter Whalley (priest)}}

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| birth_place = Brockville, Ontario, Canada

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| death_place = Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada

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Peter Whalley (February 21, 1921 – September 18, 2007) was a Canadian caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator and sculptor.{{cite news |last= Hustak|first= Alan|date= 22 September 2007|title= Cartoonist displayed sardonic humour|url= https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/426166846/|work= The Gazette|location=Montreal |url-access=subscription}}

Whalley was born in Brockville, Ontario, went to King's Collegiate School in Windsor, Nova Scotia until 1937,{{cite interview |last= Whalley|first= Peter|interviewer= Fred Davis|title= The wit and wisdom of Peter Whalley|url= http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/the-wit-and-wisdom-of-peter-whalley|publisher= Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|date= June 3, 1959|work= Open House}} and attended the Nova Scotia College of Art. After serving with the Canadian Merchant Marine during the Second World War, he later established himself in Montreal as a prominent humorist, beginning in the 1940s with the Montreal Standard. He would become well known in the 1960s and 1970s doing covers for Maclean's, Weekend and the Montrealer magazines.

He used a distinctive stripped-down style to send up the cultural and political life of Canada. As an illustrator, he collaborated on works with Eric Nicol and John Robert Colombo,{{cite web |url= https://canadianaci.ca/Encyclopedia/whalley-peter/|title= WHALLEY, Peter|author= |website= canadianaci.ca|publisher= Canadian Animation, Cartooning and Illustration|access-date= December 22, 2020}} among others.

In 1965, Whalley won first prize for Political Cartooning at the International Salon of Caricature and Cartoon.{{cite web |url= http://www.canadacomics.ca/whalley.html|title= Peter Whalley (b. 1921)|author= |website= canadacomics.ca|publisher= Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060621072005/http://www.canadacomics.ca/whalley.html|archive-date= June 21, 2006}} In 2007, he was inducted into the Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame.{{Cite web|last=Wright|first=Doug|url=http://designtaxi.com/news/525/First-Ever-Doug-Wright-Awards-for-Canadian-Cartooning-Handed-Out-In-Toronto/|title=First Ever Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning Handed Out In Toronto|access-date=2011-12-28|date=June 6, 2005|website=designtaxi.com|publisher=Designtaxi|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121016170444/http://designtaxi.com/news/525/First-Ever-Doug-Wright-Awards-for-Canadian-Cartooning-Handed-Out-In-Toronto/|archive-date= October 16, 2012}}

He died in a hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, aged 86.