death_date death_place birth_place subcat nationality name cartoonist birth_date sortkey article_title birth_name
september 25 , 2006 comox , british columbia , canada moose jaw , saskatchewan , canada canadian canadian bus griffiths y 1913 griffiths , bus bus griffiths
 gilbert joseph griffiths
bus griffiths

gilbert joseph `` bus '' griffiths -lrb- 1913 -- september 25 , 2006 -rrb- was a cartoonist , lumberjack , and fisherman .
he was best known for his graphic novel `` now you 're logging '' , published 1978 by harbour publishing .
`` now you 're logging '' presented , in cartoon form , a complete look at the techniques , tools , and personalities of logging on the west coast in the 1930s .
he began drawing cartoons while working as a logger , doing work for vancouver 's maple leaf publishing during world war ii and comic strips about logging for `` bc lumberman '' magazine .
he retired from logging in 1961 and began work as a commercial fisherman .
in 1972 he began work on `` now you 're logging '' to document logging in the era before modern technology .
a complete picture is presented of the techniques and lives of the typical logger of the 1930s , with tree felling and log bucking , high climbers , chasers , choker setters , a hooktender , an accident and rescue in the woods , the use of the crosscut saw , rigging , a spar -lrb- tree -rrb- , log transport on both truck and water , and operation of the steam donkey all shown and explained .
this depiction of logging is interwoven with a love story involving one of the loggers and the daughter of a fishing family near their logging camp .
`` the comics journal '' said about the book in 1996 : `` a true anomaly : written and drawn by a man with decades of experience in the woods , it 's a book with no clear antecedent , more intent on documenting a way of life than telling a story '' , adding `` it might just change your perception of what comics are , what they can do , and why we need them . ''
he also illustrated the children 's book `` patrick and the backhoe '' by howard white -lrb- nightwood editions -rrb- and `` bush poems '' by peter trower -lrb- harbour publishing -rrb- .
