Avrom Yanovsky was a Canadian

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...

 editorial cartoonist. His cartoons were printed as early as the 1930s.http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:w1FC6hhFr0EJ:groups.google.com/group/can.schoolnet.history/msg/7bd7b5bdcc66e4c1%3Fdmode%3Dprint+%22Avrom+Yanovsky%22&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=21 Most of his cartoons were printed in Canadian Tribune. He also illustrated left wing

Left-wing politics

In politics, Left, left-wing and leftist generally refer to support for social change to create a more egalitarian society...

 publications like the screenplay for Eight Men Speak

Eight Men Speak

Eight Men Speak is a Canadian play written in 1933 by a committee of Oscar Ryan, E. Cecil-Smith, Frank Love and Mildred Goldberg. Although the play made only one performance in its initial run, the attempts by the authorities to suppress it backfired into a political embarrassment for the Canadian...

. His works have been shown in galleries and collected in at least the Ontario Archives.

His son was musician and restaurateur Zalman Yanovsky

Zal Yanovsky

Zalman "Zal" Yanovsky was a Canadian rock musician. Born in Toronto, he was the son of political cartoonist Avrom Yanovsky. He played lead guitar and sang for the Lovin' Spoonful, a rock band which he founded with John Sebastian in 1964...

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External links

• "Exhibiting the Political Cartoons of Avrom Yanovsky"