John Alton Collins (7 October 1917 – 16 September 2007) was born in Washington D.C., and moved with his family to Canada in 1920.
Many of Collins's cartoons included the character Uno Who, a cash-strapped taxpayer who wore only a bankruptcy barrel.
[1] He was considered a gentleman among editorial cartoonists, with a reputation of speed and reliability.
The fonds consists of 3,333 original political cartoons by Collins, published in the Montreal Gazette from 1960 to 1982.
The fonds also contains an original cartoon by J.B. Fitzmaurice, published in the Montreal Herald in 1913.