Friday, May 11, 2007
Peter Puck
:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/11/2007 12:00:00 AM 
This Globe and Mail story reports on efforts to resurrect Peter Puck, the cartoon mascot of the NHL in the 1970s. Not exactly comics news, but Peter was a big part of Canadian visual culture at one point (he must have had a promo comic book, no?):
"I've never had a sense that people are clamouring for the return of Peter Puck. I think the fact that no one has picked it up over the past 20 years ... might be slightly telling," said Bob Stellick, a Toronto-based sports-marketing consultant.
Keith McIntyre, the president of Mississauga-based K.Mac & Associates Marketing, said he can see how Peter Puck will appeal to guys in their 40s who grew up with the character. But he said it will be harder to make him appeal to kids, who are more likely to play hockey on Xbox than to watch the game on TV.
So why not make a Peter Puck video hockey game?
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Mark Messier Comic
:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/27/2007 12:02:00 AM In honour of hockey legend Mark Messier (The Oilers are retiring his jersey), the Edmonton Journal printed a comic strip biography of the man on Sunday, now available as a pdf (warning, it's not very good).Labels: Edmonton, hockey
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Monday, February 26, 2007
Vancouver Canucks Toying with Return to Cartoon Logo?
:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/26/2007 12:02:00 AM 
The Vancouver Sun hints that the Vancouver Canucks hockey franchise may be considering a return to some version of their original logo, adopted in 1945, featuring a cartoon lumberjack grasping a hockey stick. Known as "Johnny Canuck", the character was abandoned by 1970 when the team became part of the NHL.Labels: ephemera, hockey, Vancouver
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