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Wes Tyrell (born February 2, 1964) is the nom de plume of Christopher Tracey, a Canadian editorial cartoonist and illustrator who works for Moses Znaimer's Zoomer Magazine. Born in Toronto, along with his twin brother to a Canadian father and Scottish mother, he studied animated film at Oakville's Sheridan College and illustration at OCAD University when it was known as OCA. He adopted the moniker Wes Tyrell while fronting a country and western cabaret act on Toronto's Queen street music scene, Wes Tyrell and the Ohio Boys during the 1980's. Leaving college in 1986 he traveled throughout Israel and the UK before settling in Cuba to work in tourism until 1991. Upon returning from Cuba he joined his brother's 70's revival band Chunk O' Funk as MC Archibald Skideeks.

His professional cartooning career began at Maclean's Magazine after being recruited by cartoonist Terry Mosher AKA Aislin of the Montreal Gazette in 2004, who at the time was cartoon editor of Maclean's in Toronto. In 2005 he began freelancing for publications including The Globe and Mail, Dogs in Canada Magazine, Surfing Life Magazine and regularly syndicating cartoons throughout Canada with Artizans Cartoon Syndicate. From 2013 through 2015 he was principal editorial cartoonist for Yahoo Canada.

In 2012 he succeeded Terry Mosher as president of the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists and initiated rebranding the group as ACC - The Association of Canadian Cartoonists in order to reflect the change in newspaper positions for traditional editorial cartoonists and make it more inclusive for other cartooning disciplines. As president he organized the first ACC convention to be held outside Canada's borders in Havana Cuba in 2014. In 2015 he arranged for association members to join him as speakers at The Ideacity Conference to discuss cartooning and the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. In 2016 he hosted the first ACC convention in Toronto in two decades and followed that with a co-convention with the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists in Sacramento California in September 2018.

He lives by the Scarborough Bluffs with his wife Coco.

www.westyrell.ca

www.acc.format.com

http://www.metronews.ca/news/canada/2015/01/08/canadian-cartoonists-praise-the-free-speech-provocateurs-of-charlie-hebdo.html

http://www.ideacity.ca/video/wes-tyrell-terry-mosher-conference-wrap-up/

http://www.ideacity.ca/speaker/wes-tyrell/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Vp_FLcZNA

http://ryersonian.ca/three-rules-to-cartoon-by-canadian-cartoonists-talk-about-guiding-principles/

http://ryersonjournalism.ca/tag/wes-tyrell/