Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For his ability to write about emotion and his hatred of adverbs.
Bill Bernbach
For uniting art & copy.
David Sedaris
For honesty and humour.
Monty Python
For comedic timing, intelligence and wit.
Chuck Palahniuk
For innovative story telling.
Gary Larson
For making so much fit in a single frame.
Charles M. Schulz
For Charlie Brown and always being 7 weeks ahead of publication.
Cormac McCarthy
For sentence making and “The judge”.
Steven King
For sentence making, his hatred of adverbs and the scene under the snow in ‘The Shining’.
Richard Brautigan
For reinventing the novel in “Trout Fishing in America”.
Howard Engel
For making detective fiction funny and chopped egg sandwiches.
Carl Hiaasen
For messed up characters, especially the guy with the weed-eater for a hand.
Jim Harrison
For manly writing.
Picasso
For the versatility of his creativity.
My wife Anne
For encouraging and supporting my career choice and being my harshest critic.
My 8th-grade teacher Sonia Eldridge
For convincing me that one adult who believes in a kid can change everything.
Clarence Alfonse Gagnon
For his heart-wrenching use of the colour orange.
Arthur Lismer
For the cartoons of his companions in the Group of Seven.
Bill Murray
For every film except ‘Mad Dog & Glory’.
Bob Newhart
For subtlety.
The Dean Martin Roast
For smoking and drinking on TV. Shout out to Foster Brooks.
The Swiss Grid
For appealing to my need for logic and order in design.
David Berman
For “Do Good Design”.
Bubba Hotep
For giving me a second-favourite movie. ‘Jaws’ is my first.
Steven Spielberg
For ‘Jaws’.
Steven Wright
For the little things and his last performance in Toronto.
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