Wes Tyrell

One time country music crooner and fencing enthusiast, Wes Tyrell enjoys the enviable task of drawing Moses Znaimer’s alter ego “Prophet of Zoom” for Zoomer magazine.

Wes draws editorial cartoons for Yahoo Canada and trumpets this model of producing cartoons exclusively for digital audiences. In an era of roller coaster newspaper performance, the Yahoo cartoon continues to prove the medium is alive and well, and even resides in your pocket.

Current President of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists, in 2014 he successfully hosted the Association’s conference in Cuba, the first time the event was held outside of Canada.

Drawing on his years living in Havana, he was able to persuade the finest Canadian editorial cartoonists to assemble for two weeks of intense mamboing and political discourse and somehow return in one piece.