Craig George was born in City of Lloydminster, AB in 1965 and
was raised on a farm in the nearby community of Marwayne, AB.
He attended Art school in Calgary at the Alberta College of Art
in 1988 and graduated with a diploma in Visual Communications in 1992. After
graduation, he set up shop as a free-lance illustrator and worked in Calgary
until 1995.
His cartoon illustration style developed from his interest in
editorial cartooning, comics, and comic strips and he decided to pursue his
dreams of being a professional cartoonist. Instead of trying to start his career
in the big city, Craig decided a smaller market would be a better place to learn
the ropes. So, in 1995 he returned home to Lloydminster and began working at the
Lloydminster Daily Times selling advertising in the paper, which also
enabled him to become their resident editorial cartoonist.
It was here that he learned, through trial and error and through
studying fellow editorial cartoonists’ works, the art of editorial
cartooning. His Editorials now appear in.
The Red Deer Advocate, The Lethbridge Herald, The Prince Albert Duly Herald, The
Saskatoon Star Phoenix, The Regina Leader Post, The Moose Jaw Times Herald,
The Edmonton Journal, The Globe and Mail, The Daily Gleaner in Fredericton,
The Times-Transcript in Moncton, several papers in Ontario. He is also the
regular Editorial Cartoonist for the Western Producer.
It was also during this time that he was also able to develop
his own comic strip, Rural Rootz, a strip about two families. One farm family,
the Rootz', are trying to keep up with life in the nineties, and the other, the
Rhodes' are a city family that has moved to an acreage to get away from city
life and get back to the "basics." The strip follows these two
families as the adults and kids interact with each other and find themselves in
a variety of adventures. The strip is growing in popularity and is now carried
in several daily and weekly newspapers across Western Canada, including the Edmonton
Journal. This popularity led to the compilation of a Rural Rootz
collection. Udder Nonsense hit bookstores in November of 1997. Craig
George currently resides in Lloydminster.