Roy Eric Peterson, OC (14 September 1936 – 30 September 2013) was a Canadian editorial cartoonist who drew for The Vancouver Sun from 1962 to 2009.
[1] Peterson was born in Winnipeg and studied in Vancouver at the Kitsilano Secondary School and the Vancouver School of Art.
[2] Along with the Sun, his work often appeared in Maclean's magazine, where he would illustrate the columns of Allan Fotheringham.
[4] Peterson died in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on 30 September 2013, aged 77, of complications from Parkinson's disease.
[5] In 2004 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada[3] and Peterson won seven National Newspaper Awards for his work, the most in the history of the awards.