s Lawsuit From Page 22 Ronald Searle of Punch magazine. “Etry to put the derail into cae main person with no detail in the background. Ben Wicks would take 20 minutes, sit down and watch the news and draw his cartoon in three or four lines. I try to get some interest into the characters and the caricature and work the thing out and hold the interest of the viewer,” Peterson said. Peterson continues with his philoso- phy @ fa Poy. “When I started out I was middle lett. 1 saw: how they screwed it up and now I say a pox on all your houses. Pm in the radical middle now. “i draw "my cartoons from the aver- age person’s view who is not in a politi- cal party and not going with a certain gang but he s being aftected by what those people do, whether they are liberal or conservative or communist,” Peterson said. Money and success have ruined many people who have shot to the top of their professions content to peer down on the rest from their white ivory towers. Peterson has been rewarded in his own way, largely by the support of his peers and raising a family of five with his wife Margaret. Nevertheless, Peterson has won numerous National Newspaper Awards, served on both the Canadian and American Editorial Cartoonist’s associa- tions and has had his work exhibited in ~ the U.S. Embassy in Ortawa and other places abroad. He has illustrated many. '- “books including the best-selling Frag” Fables and Beaver Tales series. Peterson prefers not to rock the boay in conversation, acknowledging only so much blame for newspaper management .and their lawyers when tr comes to cur- tailing his work. _’ He is grateful to his editors at the _ Sun, recognizing the importance of a . good editor. ; Peterson defines an agreeable editor, as “one that has enough competence to leave the cartoonist alonc.” - ©, “But from the employer’s side he or ~ she has to be sure he can leave the car- »!* toonist alone. The cartoonist aceds time : to come up to speed,” Peterson said. . +The problem Peterson explains, is in . the United States when the baby - boomers rose. » 4A lot of kids wanted to be cartoon- ists and draw editorial cartoons and did- lexibi n’r have any idea of what editorial car- tooning was or what their own political feelings were. “They were producing a lot of jokes with no bearing on what was going on. Newspaper editors liked them because they weren’t controversial and they could run these things as fill,” said Pererson. Peterson delights in the ammunition handed him by British Columbian politi- cal figures from the Bennett family to Phil Gaglardi, Grace McCarthy, Gordon Wilson and now Glen Clark. “In B.C. it’s pure entertainment. It’s frontier politics ond its left or right but nothing in between, which i is unfortu- nate for the average person,” Peterson: said. “For a cartoonist it’s great. It’s like being a pickpocket at a public hanging. We get a fot of strange peopic.” - When the Victoria Tisucs-Colostist car- toonist Bob Bierman depicted thea Minister of Human Resources Bill - Vander Zalm picking the wings off a fly, the British Commonwealth had its first cartoon libel suit in over a half century. The case, which was overturned in Bierman’s favour, allowed more fexibili- ty in roasting political figures. “The decision gave almost carte blanche to the editorial cartoonist. We have much more scope than we thought we ever had,” Peterson said. “You can’t totally smear a person. But you do have the right to do a lot of things editorial cartoonists didn t think they had a right to.” Ever get that feeling? ‘Well, you were right. Ps EG Recordin in the New Millennium $4.95 . _ io Ever get the feeling that just adding reverb to your tracks ‘doesn’t give you the blend and interaction of a good record- ‘ing: ; studio? Well; you're right. The sterile quality of a reverb cannot re-create all the sub- . tle interacticn berveen musical instruments thar happens in a ‘good studio environment, ; a = Down Beat Jexs, Blues & Be yond $4.30 The 47th‘ Annual Critics’ Poll highlights Female Vocalist Asked if he has caken advantage of that ruling, Peterson said no. It s not the politicians bur the friends of polisi- cians who get incensed. “The friends will send vou nasty lerters and want you fired and call the editor,” Peterson said. He still gets one or two letters a vear from irate readers. Once someone called The Vancouver Sun to sav diat Peterson better not stand near a window. He once drew a cartoon about for- mer Ontario premier David Peterson who was promoting Ontario as though it was all there was to Canada. Peterson was drawn wetting his pants in Ontario wine which offended many prominent personalities in the West. Peterson said if he doesn’t get those letters from incensed people he's not doing his job, He doesn’t want his work to be just “space fill.” “Canadians want to get along,” Peterson said. “They don’t want argu ments. They want to do the right thing 5 quietly and that’s what J do on the age.” ‘Asked how he handles w: orking alongside the ego and prominence of Macican’s columnist Allan Fotheringham, whose column Peterson’s cartoon appears in each week, Peterson defers politely. He is content to take a back seat to fame. “[Fotheringham] really bends dead- lines and I’ve seen some pretty warped deadlines in my time,” Peterson quipped. The nwo have collaborated on several collections of both their writings and drawings Collected & Round and The World According to Ray Peterson. Focheringham wili often read phrases on the phone to give Peterson an idea of the column. “Once he told me a Japanese- Canadian dentist in a kilt was at a party but didn’t end up mentioning it in the article. I drew the dentist in full Highland regalia,” Peterson said. Now the two compare notes more thoroughly. “Editorial cartoonists think thar they are changing the world but they’re not really,” Peterson acknowledges. “Comic strip cartoonists are wise enough just to do the little joke type of stuff and niake a million dollars but the editorial cartoonists are penniless essen- tially. I don’t have the Olympic size swimming pool or the two or thee phones,” he said. Roy Peterson may not have a swim- _ming pool or three-car garage, but he is content. Friday, ania 13, 1999 ~ North Shore News - 23 “S$” icons denote the approximate range of 2 restaurant's entree prices, Restaurant may offer some entrees 2bore or below the price range indicated. 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