Len Norris

Len Norris
Born	Leonard Matheson Norris December 1, 1913 London, England
Died	August 12, 1997 aged 83 Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Area(s)	Cartoonist

Leonard Matheson Norris, better known as Len Norris (1913 in

and social mores with a barbed pencil. His intricate drawings were full of subtle detail, with several sideplots tucked into the frame, with everything from sardonic pictures on the living room wall to what the kids or the cat are doing in the corner while the main action is going on, typically with painfully ironic dialogue. Norris cartoons remain popular today even though much of their original political or social context is gone.

Recurring themes and characters in Norris cartoons included the sarcastic Amblesnide and Tiddlycove, a parody of the tweedy

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A copy of his cartoon, showing a mythical day in the famed Studio G at CBC Radio on Jarvis Street sometime in the early 1960s, illustrating some of the luminaries of the great days of radio, has been preserved in the resurrected Celebrity Club at PAL Place in Toronto as a 15-foot mural.

Len Norris received an honorary doctorate from the University of Windsor. One of his famous "Brockton Oval" cricket cartoons was re-produced on a limited edition T-shirt for the University of Windsor's "Senior Seminar" participants in the 1960s. There is still a small private collection of both his sketches and his final art work cartoons held by a collector of political cartoons in the Windsor, Ontario, region.^[1]

References

External links

• Simon Fraser University Len Norris Collection intro
• SFU Online Len Norris Cartoon Archive
• The SFU Library Editorial Cartoons Collection
• http://www.vancouversun.com/news/This+history+Award+winning+cartoonist+born+England/9234373/story.html