Norman Drew (cartoonist)
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Norm Drew is an animator, cartoonist, writer, producer, director, TV host, performer and adult education animation/cartooning instructor.
He was born in Kenora, Ontario, graduated from Kenora-Keewatin District High School with Honors; and is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art at the University of Alberta, Calgary.[1]
Drew has over 40 years' experience in the international animated motion picture and television industry, creating and producing animation in the United Kingdom (London), Europe, North America and Asia.
His work is seen daily in theatrical feature films, on TV and in home video worldwide. Many of his works are mainstream, popular TV series and feature films, and some have become cult classics.
Some feature films, TV series, special and shorts he has worked on as an animator, director, designer, writer, producer or overseas supervisor are:
- The Beatles'-Yellow Submarine
- The Mouse and The Monster
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater (the first Hello Kitty TV series in North America, 1987-88)
- The Smurfs
- Dennis the Menace
- Heavy Metal- Taarna Sequence (original 1980's movie)
- The Chipmunk Adventure theatrical feature film
- Diabolik
- Beetlejuice
- Police Academy
- Jana of the Jungle
- Godzilla animated TV series
- The Irish Rovers TV series (1975)
- The Jackson 5
- The Osmond Brothers
Over the years he has worked in both the animation industry, and as a newspaper cartoonist and TV series host.
In the last half of the 1960's he illustrated a daily biographical newspaper feature about famous Canadians, called The GIANTS, which appeared nationally through the Toronto Telegram News Syndicate. By 1967 the feature branched out internationally relating the life stories of world famous people, expanding its circulation to hundreds of daily newspapers in the United States (through the L.A. Times Syndicate), and to the U.K., Europe, Australia, Singapore and South East Asian newspapers.
In the 1970's he hosted his own Sat. am kids' TV series, Gastown Gang[2] on the BCTV Network in British Columbia, and managed his own animation studios.
During that time, he also produced and syndicated two original newspaper cartoon features, The Bush Babies, a daily comic strip which appeared nationally in the Globe and Mail; and a weekly children's puzzle/activity cartoon panel Chika's Fun Square, based upon the characters featured in his cartoon series Chika's Magic Sketchbook[3], which appeared nationally on the english and french networks of CBC TV.
Since 1986 he supervised production of many highly popular Hollywood TV series produced in Asia, and between projects, pioneered industry standard animation training in Vancouver, B.C., launching and instructing inaugural Classical Animation programs for the Vancouver Film School, the Vancouver School Board's Continuing Education department and Storyboarding programs for VanArts Media Institute in Vancouver, B.C.
He is presently an animation production consultant, coach and tutor, providing animation tutoring worldwide via the internet as President of The Academy of Classical Animation.[4]
As an avocational interest, he recently (January 1, 2008) created and launched a nostalgia website for former students of the 1950's Kenora-Keewatin District High School, called KKDHS 50's FRIENDS
He has written a number of articles about animation and his experiences in the industry. A download of his Beatlology Magazine article How I Joined the Crew of Yellow Submarine is available here:[5]
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| NAME | Drew, Norman |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Drew, Norm |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | cartoonist |
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| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kenora, Ontario |
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