Andy Donato | |
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 Andy Donato at an art showing at the University of Toronto Faculty Club | |
| Born | January 13, 1937 Scarborough, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Editorial cartoonist |
Andy Donato (born January 13, 1937) [1] is an editorial cartoonist and painter, and former art director for the Toronto Sun .
Donato was born in Scarborough, Ontario. His father, Luciano Donato, was an Italian immigrant from the town of Fardella in the southern province of Potenza while his mother, Adelina Benedetti, was born in Canada. Donato worked at his father’s grocery store while growing up. [1] [2]
He graduated from Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute in 1955 and worked at Eaton's as a layout artist. He joined the Toronto Telegram in 1961, working as a graphic artist in the promotion department. He lived in Brampton, Ontario in the 1960s and contributed editorial cartoons to the weekly Bramalea Guardian. In 1968, he was appointed art director for The Telegram and began cartooning for the newspaper on a part-time basis. After The Telegram folded in 1971, he joined The Toronto Sun. In 1974, he started cartooning full-time. In 1985 and 1986, he served as president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. [3]
He is well known among Sun readers for his signature image of a bird, "Donato's bird." Finding the bird, lost in the newspaper, has been a common device in Sun promotions through the years.
Some of his most famous work was done when Pierre Elliott Trudeau was Prime Minister and Joe Clark was leader of the official opposition. As the two leaders battled it out, Donato lampooned both of them extensively. For years, Joe Clark was drawn wearing children's mittens (attached to his suit with strings), a reference to the time his luggage went missing on a trip to Israel. The final cartoon of the series appeared after Trudeau's airplane was hit by a bus while on the tarmac. It showed a puzzled Trudeau staring at the bus while one of his aides held up Clark's mittens and said: "We don't know who the driver was, but we found his mittens."
A notable cartoon was a blank cell titled "Canada's foreign ownership policy" - a parody of Canada's lack of controls over foreign ownership of Canadian companies.
One famous Donato cartoon, which was widely reproduced in the United States and is now in the Library of Congress was published during the Iranian hostage crisis. Titled "The American Dream", it is a parody of the famous photograph of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima but depicts the Iwo Jima marines raising the US flag while standing on a prostrate Ayatollah Khomeini. [4]
Donato was criticized in 2004 when his cartoon comparing David Miller with Adolf Hitler was published after Miller refused to allow a debate on Chief Julian Fantino's contract renewal. [5] In 2014, a Donato cartoon depicting politician Olivia Chow in a Mao suit was criticized as racist. [6] The newspaper issued an apology "to Olivia Chow and anyone else offended by the cartoon." [7]
It is said that many Canadian politicians consider it an honour if Donato pillories them. When he drew a picture of Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish with both feet stuck in her mouth - Parrish requested the original drawing. Other politicians have done the same, many times. According to his friends, Donato's philosophy was: "The first time any politician is targeted, he, or she, gets the original drawing on request."
Donato formally retired from the Sun in 1997 but continues to draw for the Sun chain on a contract basis that pays him roughly $400 a cartoon. [8]
Donato had a dispute with the Canada Revenue Agency over the manner in which he was donating some of his works to certain educational institutions in 1999 and 2001. He was partially successful in his appeal to the Tax Court of Canada, [9] and was awarded costs in the case. [10] The judgment was sustained on appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal. [11]
Donato is also a landscape artist working in a style he calls "bent realism". His paintings mostly depict urban landscapes, particularly Toronto neighbourhoods. He has been the subject of exhibitions in Toronto, New York City, London, and Johannesburg featuring his paintings from 1965 to present. [12]
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