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Watch our interview with Doug Sneyd:View in new window In addition to having had hundreds of his full-page color cartoons published in Playboy magazine since 1964, Doug Sneyd has enjoyed success in textbook and magazine illustration, portraiture, and as an editorial cartoonist. For nearly 20 years, starting in the mid-1960s, his "Doug Sneyd" and "Scoops" news cartoons appeared daily in newspapers across North America. Sneyd's talent has also led him into the movies: In 1993, he wrote, produced, and directed Black-Eyed Susan, an educational film about spousal abuse, for the Ontario government. Sneyd was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Book Illustrators and has been a member of the National Cartoonists' Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Twenty-four of his Playboy cartoons are among the 229 Sneyd works included in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa. He was born in Guelph, Ontario, but spent much of his professional career in Toronto. In 1969, he moved his family north to Orillia, made famous as the mythical "Mariposa" by humorist Stephen Leacock. Sneyd works on the third floor of his home-studio overlooking beautiful Lake Couchiching and spends his winters on the Gulf Coast in Orange Beach, Alabama.
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