Ted McCall Archives • Comic Book Daily

Who is Freelance?

by Ivan Kocmarek | Jun 12, 2019 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 14 |

Collectors and comic aficionados are quick to knock Canadian war-time black-and-white comics to...

Robin Hood

by Ivan Kocmarek | Oct 29, 2014 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 8 |

For me those comics that so many people affectionately call the “Canadian Whites” fall into a specific window whose most convenient frame is a single run of comics: Robin Hood Comics Vol. 1 No. 1 (March, 1941) to Robin Hood Comics Vol. 3 No. 34 (Dec. 1946-Jan. 1947). This is what II’vecome to term the WECA era because it was initiated by the War Exchange Conservation Act (WECA) passed Dec. 6, 1940 and came to an end as the provisions of this Act were repealed.

Men of the Mounted

by Ivan Kocmarek | Jan 8, 2014 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 2 |

Of all Canadian icons the Mountie is perhaps the best internationally known. The red serge, jodhpurs and boots combination probably holds higher world-wide currency and branding for Canada than the beaver, crossed-hockey sticks, and even the maple leaf.