Adrian Raeside is an editorial

Editorial

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 cartoonist

Cartoonist

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 for the Victoria Times-Colonist

Victoria Times-Colonist

The Times Colonist is an English-language daily newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It was formed by the merger, in 1980, of the Victoria Daily Times, established in 1884, and the British Colonist , established in 1858 by Amor De Cosmos, who was also British Columbia's second...

. He was born in 1957 in Dunedin, New Zealand.

He began drawing cartoons on washroom

Washroom

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 walls as a kid. After being expelled from his first (and last) art class at the age of 15, he moved with his parents to England

England

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, then to Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. While there, he worked at various jobs, from loading grain ships in Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, to surveying on the West Coast. His comic, The Other Coast

The Other Coast

The Other Coast is a comic strip, drawn by Adrian Raeside. It has been syndicated by the Creator's Syndicate since 2001. It is syndicated to more than 150 newspapers worldwide...

, was picked up by Creators Syndicate

Creators Syndicate

Creators Syndicate is an independent distributor of comic strips and syndicated columns for daily newspapers. It was founded in 1987 by Richard S. Newcombe, and is based in Los Angeles. Creators was one of the first syndicates to allow its clients to maintain creative control of their material...

 in 2001 and has appeared in over 100 newspapers worldwide.

Raeside founded and operated an animation company in 1988 to animate editorial cartoons for CBC Television

CBC Television

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. Over the next four years, he created, directed and produced dozens of animated shows for Turner Broadcasting and Children's Television Workshop, adapting two Jim Henson

Jim Henson

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 Muppet characters for animation. Raeside adapted the book The Way Things Work

The Way Things Work

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as an animated series being broadcast on BBC

BBC

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. Raeside left the animation business in 1992.

Raeside is the author of eleven books, including There Goes the Neighbourhood, an irreverent history of Canada; The Demented Decade; and 5 Twisted Years. Raeside also wrote and illustrated the popular Dennis the Dragon series of children's books.

Adrian Raeside lives in Whistler, British Columbia

Whistler, British Columbia

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