Alb%C3%A9ric Bourgeois

Albric Bourgeois was a FrenchCanadian cartoonist, credited with creating the first continuing comic strip to use word balloons in Canada.

Albric Bourgeois was born November 29, 1876. He studied fine arts in Montral until 1899, and continued in Boston, where he then landed a job at the Boston Post where he was producing The Education of Annie in 1902. He started at the newspaper La Patrie when he returned to Montral in 1903. He did political cartoons, as well as the comic strip Les Aventures de Timothe, which may have been the first continuing Qubcois comic strip.

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