Cameron Gunn, the strip's artist, started his professional art career at the age of seven when he sold handcrafted movie posters to his neighborhood friends.  Later in life, he pursued a more academic path and ended up becoming a lawyer.  All the while, though, his passion for cartooning stuck with him, acting as both a source of enjoyment and income.  He continued to draw and became a regular cartoon contributor to the Northumberland News, maintaining to this day that the failure of the paper had nothing to do with his artwork.  He has won awards in both local and national art competitions and has contributed cartoons to various publications.
 
 

Norm Foster has been called "Canada's preeminent comic playwright".  He has close to 20 professionally produced plays to his credit, including the Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award-winning "The Melville Boys".  He has had plays produced in New York City, San Francisco, Philadelphia and as far away as London, England and Sydney, Australia.  From 1995 to 1997, Norm introduced three new plays through very successful dinner theatres, writing, directing and performing in all three.

Norm is the main writer and editor of "The Bigtop".  While the cartoon is a group effort with all three members contributing ideas, his years of experience writing plays and developing characters are drawn upon to ensure that the strip maintains character consistency and plot line integrity.  Above all, the strip is meant to be funny.  Anyone who has seen his work will attest to the fact that while his plays may make you think and they may make you feel something, they certainly will make you laugh. Visit Norm Foster's Web Page

 

John left the world of business management after 20+ years to write full time with "The Word Company", a New Brunswick communications firm. His duties include producing the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brusnwick quarterly newsletter as well as various other writing assignments for other clients. He also produced the dinner theatre mentioned above and is currently working on writing plays of his own.  Visit John Spurway's web site.