Albert Chartier was a French-Canadian cartoonist and illustrator, best known for having created the comic strip Onesime.
10 Facts About Albert Chartier
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Albert Chartier was the son of Joseph Chartier, a traveling salesman who lived in the United States, an employee of the company Lowney's.
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Albert Chartier inherited his father's innate sense for business practice and perfect command of English which enabled him to become a comic artist of international caliber.
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Charles Maillard, Director of the School of Fine Arts in Montreal, was a regular at the Chartier home and encouraged the young Albert to pursue the arts.
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Early in his classes, Chartier appreciated the rigor and perfectionism of his teachers as they responded very well to his expectations.
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At fifteen years of the Refus Global, which would seriously shake the art scene and question many concepts, the middle of Fine Arts was largely conservative and Albert Chartier accommodated its evil.
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On 25 October 1935, Albert Chartier landed his first professional contract with his first comic, the Sunday BouBoule, published in La Patrie until 21 March 1937, scripted by journalist Rene Boivin.
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In 1940, Albert Chartier left Quebec for New York for almost two years, producing humorous cartoons on a freelance basis, including for Big Shot Comics magazine published by Columbia Comics.
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Albert Chartier then engaged in illustrating the stories of Gabrielle Roy, as well as novels and short stories.
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Albert Chartier contributed a weekly gag cartoon to the Radio-monde for about twenty years, and did about 100 full-colour painted covers for Le Samedi and La Revue in the 1940s and 1950s.