Who better to make you chuckle and grin but talented cartoonist, Graham Harrop<\/a> who draws the daily online comic strip Ten Cats<\/a>.<\/p>\n Harrop is a Vancouver Sun<\/em> editorial cartoonist, and for about 25 years, his comic “BackBench” appeared daily in The Globe and Mail.<\/p>\n Harrop\u2019swork has appeared in Reader’s Digest, the National Post, and as greeting cards for Recycled Paper Greetings.<\/p>\n He also creates presentation cartoons and greeting cards for corporate clients and special events. Born in Liverpool, he now lives and works in North Vancouver, Canada.<\/p>\n Like so many successful artists, Harrop\u2019s skill developed when he was quite young. \u201c<\/p>\n Although the opportunities for cartoonists in print have declined, Harrop expresses hope as \u201cthe internet does provide an avenue for self-publishing and avenues of expression that might not have been available before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cI used to draw cartoons for my family at a very early age, and they responded with laughter,\u201d Harrop said. \u201cMy older brother also bought me copies of MAD Magazine, and that fueled my imagination. This led to my first published cartoon in the Powell River News when I was sixteen.\u201d<\/p>\n Do cartoonists ever retire? \u201cI plan to keep on drawing as long as I can,\u201d Harrop said. \u201cThe cat insists on a window hammock.\u201d<\/p>\n Cartoonist Graham Harrop will make you smile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2021","category-winter-2021-columns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10775"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11128,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775\/revisions\/11128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/gh-at-drawing-board.750.jpg\")
Cartooning has always been a passion of Harrop’s. \u201cI believe what I have is a God-given talent, and I am meant to use it to make people happy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cartoon.750.jpg\")
\u201cGryndstone publishes my cartoon collections, and Fusspot Press, including the surprise, hit “Living Together After Retirement,” and by Ronsdale Press (The BackBench Collection),\u201d Harrop said.<\/p>\nGraham Harrop’s cartoons have been published in numerous books such as Living Together After Retirement – The Second Collection!<\/em><\/a>, Living Together After Retirement: or, There’s a Spouse in the House<\/em>, CAT POEMS and Other Fancies: A Ten Cats Collection<\/em>, The First-Timer’s Guide to Cruising<\/em> and many more.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"