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Doug Sneyd

Doug Sneyd is a Canadian illustrator and cartoonist best known for his distinctive style and delightfully enticing "Sneyd girls," who have been [1] featured in Playboy magazine cartoons since the early 1960s.

Early Life and Education

Born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada on December 14, 1931, Sneyd was the fifth of seven children born to Howard Sneyd and his wife, Ruth. Interested in art from an early age, he began taking the Famous Artists correspondence course while in high school and spent part of his summers sketching portraits at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, which is approximately 60 miles from Guelph.

Career

After high school, he followed the advice of the Famous Artists course to "Earn While You Learn." He bought a Vauxhall and took to the road, earning a living by painting murals of Canadian scenes in hotels and restaurants across Ontario.

Tired of his travels, Sneyd settled in Montreal, boarding at the Psi Upsilon fraternity house at McGill University and earning money painting portraits. In 1953 he landed a job at Rapid Grip and Batten, an advertising design firm with one of the largest art studios in Canada.

By 1955, he was ready to take his talents to Toronto, where he found a position at Mercer Studios, a smaller advertising agency, drawing everything from toasters to towels for newspaper advertisements.

This experience gave him the incentive to go freelance, initially working for major [2] book and [3] magazine publishers in Canada. Later, Martin Goodman, managing editor of the Toronto Star, Canada's largest circulation magazine, hired Sneyd to do a single-panel hard news cartoon, simply titled Doug Sneyd. The cartoon appeared on the Toronto Star's world news page for years and was syndicated across North America by the Toronto Star Syndicate. In 1977, Sneyd started another news-oriented feature called SCOOPS, which he decided to self-syndicate. It ran until 1987.

In 1993, The Ontario Ministry of Education's violence Prevention Secretariat commissioned Sneyd to write, produce and direct a drama about spousal abuse, which was aimed at helping children who were coping with that tragic problem. After more than a year of writing, filming and editing, Doug produced Black-Eyed Susan. More than a thousand copies were sold to schools, libraries and homes for battered women throughout North America.

Playboy Career

Sneyd's first contact with Playboy came in 1963. On a trip to Chicago, he met with a Playboy editor, who convinced him to join the magazine's growing list of cartoonists. His first full-page color cartoon appeared in the September 1964 issue. Over the years he's had nearly 500 published, with [4] 30 of these originals are among the 235 Sneyd works held in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.

In July 2011, [5] Dark Horse Books published The Art of Doug Sneyd, a 248-page hardcover book featuring 270 of Sneyd's Playboy originals. In 2012, the collection was an Eisner Award nominee in the Best Humor Publication category. After 2 hardcover print runs, a softcover edition of The Art of Doug Sneyd was published in 2016.

A second collaboration with Dark Horse Books was released in April 2017 - Secret Sneyd: The Undiscovered Cartoons of Doug Sneyd. The 272-page hardcover book features 250 of Sneyd's favorite loose-style gag roughs from the thousands he's submitted to Playboy over the years.

Earlier, Sneyd self-published Unpublished Sneyd, a 46-page softcover book (Print Pelican/Canada, 2007), featuring 100 of his favorite unpublished gag roughs.

Professional Organizations

Sneyd was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Book Illustrators and has been a member of the National Cartoonists' Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

Notes/References

1. under contract annually since the publication of the first Doug Sneyd full-page color cartoon published in the September 1964, p. 205, issue/caption: "He wants to know if we make deliveries!" Nearly 500 Doug Sneyd cartoons have been published in Playboy magazine; his final cartoon appeared in the January-February 2016, p. 53, issue/caption: "It was a fantastic night, Babs.  First he took me to a charming little restaurant no one's ever heard of and then he showed me an erogenous zone I never knew existed."

2. including:  Toronto/Macmillan, Great Stories of Canada series, Man from St. Malo: The Story of Jacques Cartier, 1959, by Robert D. Ferguson, illustrated by Douglas Sneyd and Fur Trader:  the Story of Alexander Henry, 1961, by Robert D. Ferguson, illustrated by Douglas Sneyd. Ryerson Press, McGraw-Hill Company of Canada Limited, Makpa:  The Story of an Eskimo-Canadian Boy, 1971, by Margery Hinds, illustrations by Doug Sneyd. Ginn and Company, Toronto, Ginn Integrated Language Program, Up the Beanstalk by Martha Kambeitz and Denise Burns, with illustrations by Douglas Sneyd. McClelland and Stewart Limited Toronto/Montreal, McGonigle Scores!, 1966, by Leslie McFarlane, cover design by Douglas Sneyd. J. M. Dent & Sons (Canada) Limited, Aldine History Series, Canada: The Struggle for Empire, 1960, by Luella Bruce Creighton, illustrations by Douglas Sneyd. Little, Brown and Company/Boston, Toronto, The Riddle of the Haunted River, 1962, by Lawrence Earl, illustrated by Douglas Sneyd and A Boy at the Leafs' Camp, 1963, by Scott Young, drawings by Doug Sneyd. Simon & Pierre, Toronto, 1982, poetry books - The Concrete Giraffe, The Asphalt Octopus and Nature's Big Top - by Lola Sneyd (no relation), illustrated by Doug Sneyd. W. J. Gage Limited, Toronto, Mutiny on Hudson Bay: The Story of the Last Voyage of Henry Hudson, 1963, by Delbert A. Young, illustrations and jacket by Doug Sneyd and Music for Young Canada, 1969, arrangements by Kenneth I. Bray, illustrations by Doug Sneyd.

3. The Star Weekly Magazine:  including The Odyssey of Dai Lewis, November 21, 1959; The Settler from Stettler, July 30, 1960; Service with a Smile, August 26, 1961; Down with Paddy's Day, March 17, 1962; Moose Roast for Dinner, November 9, 1963; A Name to Remember, February 15, 1964. Family Herald: including The Boy Who Loved Clowns, October 16, 1958; Mr. Dobie and the Bees, February 5, 1959; Babiche Land, February 4, 1960; Seventy Times Seven, March 16, 1961. Chatelaine: including End of Summer, September 1959; The Boughten Bride, May 1960; Dear United Nations, February 1963; My Life in Two Worlds, April 1963.

4. including:  August 1970, (p. 181), September 1970 (p. 247), August 1971 ( p. 140), June 1978 (p. 180), September 1981 (p. 181), April 1982 (p. 103), January 1983 (p. 121), October 1983 (p. 135), May 1984 (p. 199), September 1984 (p. 87), June 1987 (p. 103), September 1987 (p. 97), April 1988 (p. 158), November 1988 (p. 169), March 1989 (p. 111), August 1991 (p. 154), July 1992 (p. 142), November 1992 (p.164), September 1993 (p. 119), January 1995 (p. 139), June 1997 (p. 91), November 1998 (p. 97), March 1999 (p. 114), April 2000 (p. 117), September 2000 (p. 93).

5. Dark Horse Books (a division of Dark Horse Comics, Inc.), 10956 SE Main Street, Milwaukie, OR 97222

External Links

• official website: www.dougsneyd.com • www.dougsneyd.blogspot.com • Doug Sneyd Premium Gallery at: www.comicartfans.com • www.bigwowart.com • www.darkhorse.com • www.amazon.com • www.penquinrandomhouse.com • www.barnesandnoble.com

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