Author: Doug Urquhart. Published by Lost Moose Publishing, Whitehorse, Yukon, 1994, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 8.5 inch, 165 pages.
SKOOKUM'S NORTH, The "PAWS" Collection by Doug Urquhart, is nearly 500 PAWS comic strips--the complete 10-year collection--presented in one hilarious, insightful volume. A favourite with northerners and anyone who has spent time in the North.
In 1983 "PAWS" was launched as the first syndicated cartoon strip ever produced in the north. Since then it has appeared as a feature in 34 northern newspapers from Lynn Lake, Manitoba to Dutch Harbour, Alaska. Today "PAWS" remains the only successful northern cartoon strip in Canada and Alaska. It is carried by about 20 papers on a regular basis.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: For more than 35 years, Doug Urquhart worked all over northern Canada--as a prospector in northern Quebec and Ontario, biologist on the arctic islands, conservation officer in Fort Smith and Cambridge Bay, Northwest Territories, weather observer on the Yukon-NWT border, jail guard in Atlin, British Columbia, editorial cartoonist in Whitehorse, Yukon an environmental consultant in Yellowknife and the Yukon. Doug lives with his wife, Judi, and children, Robin and Daitlyn, in Whitehorse, Yukon.
