Grip Ltd.

The company was founded in 1873 by the cartoonist J. W. Bengough to publish his satirical weekly magazine Grip.

After that date the company became better known as an important design firm, providing artwork, wood cuts, and other services for merchandise and print advertising.

It was one of the first employers of many of Canada's major artists of the period, and is perhaps most important as where many of the Group of Seven met one another for the first time.

In 1908 Frank Johnston and around 1909 Tom Thomson[1] joined the firm as two of Macdonald's designers.

Grip magazine was briefly revived in 2000 as a satirical quarterly, published by the Toronto-based Lategan Media Group.