[2] Born in Chicago in 1918, Brunt's family moved to Simcoe, Ontario, several years later.

[3] His contributions to the Canadian Whites were generally featurettes of 2–3 pages in length, cartoony and goofy in nature, whose titles heavily drew on alliteration.

[3] Titles included Goofy Gags, Barnacle Bull, Kernel Korn, Professor Punk, Loop the Droop, Lank the Yank, and Buz and his Bus.

[3] The only title that broke the pattern was his final creation, J. C. Flatbottom, which may have had an autobiographical character.

[6] Brunt died in 1987 at the McMaster University Medical Centre in Hamilton, after a lengthy illness.