Cartoonist Ted Bastien Profiled
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 8th, 2007
There is an excellent Bangor Daily News article, published on January 8, 2007, about Toronto-based cartoonist Ted Bastien and his comic strip, “Bugsport.”
The strip is based loosely on Bucksport, Maine, and the town’s reportedly alien population. (Note to non-Mainers, when we say you are “from away” up here, we really mean it.)
The article avoids mentioning Bugsport’s Bigfoot entirely, thus allowing it to remain an elusive cryptid. Indeed, the nice profile of Bastien does not mention his forays into cryptozoology at all.
But we all know he draws comic cryptids in addition to his Studebaker-cloned spaceships and grays. (You have got to love the ongoing influence of those memorable Studebakers.)
Therefore, here’s a sampler of Ted’s Maine Bigfoot visitors.
Click on either one of the two Bigfoot at top and above to make them bigger.
For a link to his website and more comics, click on his name here: Ted Bastien.
Thanks for sharing these with us, Loren. Ted is a great cartoonist! Keep up the good work, Ted!
“Nice guy”, too!
Wonderful work. His characters are lively and animated. What a skilled cartoonist in the traditional sense. One could almost say he’s old school except for the subject matter. Thanks for sharing this with us, Loren.
I didn’t know you could cram so many Gray jokes in one comic.