death_date death_place birth_place subcat name cartoonist birth_date sortkey article_title birth_name
1997 1913 langley , british columbia , canada london , england canadian len norris y 1913 norris , len len norris
 leonard matheson norris
len norris

leonard matheson norris , better known as len norris -lrb- 1913 in london , england - 1997 in langley , british columbia , canada -rrb- , was a longtime editorial cartoonist for the canadian newspaper `` vancouver sun '' from 1950 to 1988 .
called by walt kelly , the creator of pogo , `` the best in the business '' , norris ' cartoons skewered the foibles of british columbia politics 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 west vancouver neighbourhoods of ambleside and dundarave ; `` rodney '' , a caricature of an anglo-centric monarchical canadian ; the `` socred cow '' for the british columbia government 's liquor stores ; and lampoons of the pacific great eastern railway .
a copy of his cartoon , showing a mythical day in the famed studio g at cbc radio on jarvis street sometime in the early 60s , 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 .
