A collection of 2,500 cartoons by late Canadian cartoonist Ben Wicks that was the centre of a legal dispute has been donated to York University in Toronto.
Wicks’s family, which gained custody of the cartoons in a lawsuit, has donated the cartoons to the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections at York.
The collection includes signed cartoons Wicks drew in the late 1960s and early 1970s for publications such as the Toronto Telegram, Toronto Star and Saturday Evening Post.
The cartoons will be made available to researchers in history and current affairs, as well as those studying Wicks’s work.
Wicks was known for his simple style and witty cartoons lampooning political figures such as Pierre Trudeau, Richard Nixon and Joe Clark.
Based in Toronto, he was a TV personality and broadcaster as well as a supporter of humanitarian causes, including famine relief in Biafra, which he helped publicize with his cartoons.
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