Graeme MacKay
Between 1989 and 1991, he illustrated and, along with writer Paul Nichols, co-wrote a weekly comic strip entitled "Alas & Alack", a satire of current-day public figures framed in a medieval setting.[11] On March 22, 2018, an editorial cartoon[12] by MacKay was published in the Hamilton Spectator which depicted a person presenting as female being asked by a clerk at a Service Canada desk how they would like to be addressed.[14][15] On August 24, 2018, an editorial cartoon[16] by MacKay was published in the Hamilton Spectator which depicted Ontario Premier Doug Ford looking directly into the light of an overhead slide projection showing an anatomical cross-section of the male pelvic region, titled "The Penis."Ford is shown positioned with part of the slide projecting male sex organs on his face with a caption stating, "A sex-ed snitch line has been set up to report any funny business."On August 20, 2021, an editorial cartoon[18] by MacKay comparing and contrasting the Taliban with the Conservative Party of Canada elicited several complaints and letters to the editor of the Hamilton Spectator of unfair and biased coverage.