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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, log transport on both Truck and water, and operation of the steam donkey all shown and explained. Logging is interwoven with a love story involving one of the loggers and the da

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  • Bus Griffiths
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  • 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, log transport on both Truck and water, and operation of the steam donkey all shown and explained. Logging is interwoven with a love story involving one of the loggers and the da
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Birth Date
  • 1913(xsd:integer)
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Name
  • Bus Griffiths
  • Griffiths, Bus
Date of Death
  • 2006-09-25(xsd:date)
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  • 2006-09-25(xsd:date)
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  • Now You're Logging
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  • Canadian
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  • Griffiths, Bus
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  • Y
Date of Birth
  • 1913(xsd:integer)
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  • Cartoonist, Logger
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  • Gilbert Joseph Griffiths
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  • 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, log transport on both Truck and water, and operation of the steam donkey all shown and explained. 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." He also did the illustrations for the children's book Patrick and the Backhoe by Howard White (Nightwood Editions) and Bush Poems by Peter Trower (Harbour Publishing).
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