HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1992-10-14, Page 8PAGE 8. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1992.
Fisher’s hard times lead to Street’s good times
Artist at work
Former Blyth resident, Philip Street, works on Fisher, his
comic strip which runs daily Wednesday to Saturday in the
Globe and Mail newspaper. Photo by Eric Street
By Lisa Boonstoppel-Pot
Thanks to Tom Fisher's hard
times, Philip Street is having good
times.
Tom Fisher, commonly known as
Fisher, is a comic strip character
which appears in the Globe and
Mail Wednesday through Saturday.
His creator is former Blyth resi
dent, Philip Street, now of
Kingston.
Mr. Street says "Fisher has
become sort of an alter-ego of
mine."
But the two seem to have little in
common.
While Fisher's ambition seems to
have gone underground, Mr.
Street's is becoming reality.
Mr. Street grew up reading
comics, finding particular pleasure
in Peanuts and in later years,
Calvin and Hobbes.
While in public school, he dis
covered he had a talent for drawing
and by the time he attended The
University df Toronto, he was cre
ating his first cartoon characters for
editorial cartoons.
While studying, he lived in
Toronto and many of his experi
ences of coping in the city are
reflected in Fisher.
But where Mr. Street has suc
cessfully survived his adventures,
Fisher has not.
"Fisher has a Walter Mitty type
of life," explains Mr. Street. "He's
pushed around a lot so he fantasizes
about being powerful."
Ideas for the witty strip often
come from present day occurrences
Mr. Street finds humorous.
"All kinds of things occur to me
in a day that I find funny but very
few can translate into a comic
strip," he says. "You have to frame
an idea in a way to make it univer
sally funny. A lot of wisecracks are
too specific. Learning how to make
it funny to other people is a craft."
Obviously, Mr. Street has learned
the craft.
While the pay isn't quite enough
for him to vacate his position as Art
Director for 'Compass', a Toronto
Journal, he's having fun.
"This is the most fun thing I do,"
says the 33-year-old freelancer who
also does small desk-top publishing
jobs.
He hopes the strip will soon
become syndicated.
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Archibald. That night after getting
a motel in Kindersley, Sask., they
called Jim Spier in Brock and went
out to visit with him. Jim was lucky
as his families' crop had been good
and they had managed to get all the
malting barley off in good shape
and they were starting the wheat.
They also visited Mary (Mc
Donald) Spier in Brock.
Viola returned to her cousins in
South Calgary for the weekend and
Jean spent the weekend with the
Ravens. All visited Banff on the
weekend. Monday morning they set
out for home via the Canadian
route. The prairies are beautiful in
September and a side trip to the
Qu'Appelle Valley revealed even
more beauty. The hills around the
Sault Ste. Marie area were all a
dark red. Probably in another week
they would have been scarlet. All
the way home, there were areas
where the trees had not turned,
areas where the leaves were off and
many more colourful spots. The
Huntsville area in Ontario was the
brightest. They arrived in Brussels
mid-afternoon on Friday.
Adult Day
Centre opens
Continued from page 1
opened in 1977. Throughout the
years, there have been many addi
tions to the centre including a sun
porch and automatic doors. In
1987, the service received a
wheelchair accessible bus thanks to
a grant from the provincial govern
ment.
The 15th anniversary celebration
was attended by centre clients, vol
unteers and Murray Cardiff, MP;
Paul Klopp, MPP; Robert Fisher,
Huron County Warden and Ann St.
Jean, the centre's coordinator from
1977-79.
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