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Gilbert Joseph "Bus" Griffiths (1913 – September 25, 2006) 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 (tree), 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." 〔Shawn Conner, quoted from ''Comics Journal'' at http://sequential.spiltink.org/?p=1423 retrieved 24 Jan 2008〕 He also illustrated the children's book ''Patrick and the Backhoe'' by Howard White (Nightwood Editions) and ''Bush Poems'' by Peter Trower (Harbour Publishing). ==References== 〔 * (Obituary from ''Sequential: Comics News and Culture From Canada'' ) * (An academic analysis of ''Now You're Logging'' from ''Labour/Le Travail'', Canadian Committee on Labour History ) * (Excerpts from ''Now You're Logging'' from the B.C. Forest Discovery Centre website ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bus Griffiths」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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