Gordon Bagshaw, a stay-at-home dog parent of two beautiful shelties, is also a Canadian author and illustrator. Gord grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Being unable to participate in common sports as a child, due to Nemaline Myopathy*, he honed in on other various skills in art and music. Having a natural storyteller for a father, he developed his own vivid imagination and gravitated towards the talent of cartooning at a young age. After graduating with honours in creative arts with an emphasis in film and animation, He went onto theological studies and serviced as a youth minister for 12 years in the Anglican Church of Canada.
Today, he resides in São Paulo, Brazil with his wife, where he teaches English for business, travel and continued education. Besides creating the Frodo the Sheltie series, Gordon illustrated Sarah Elvidge’s children book Sleepy Time for Mammals; a 2014 L.M. Montgomery Literature for Children Award winner.
*To learn more about NM visit the Nemaline Myopathy support group, you can also visit the official NM Facebook page
AND, you frogot to say you have a great sister-in-law, who can’t wait to meet Frodo the celeb in person (or in dog?)! Great job on the site, Gord. It’s great!
Great works and cartoons Gord, really enjoy reading them. Lynda
So proud of you Gord! Great job sharing the gift of laughter!
Hi Gordon, your cartoons made me smile as I had 20 years ago a sheltie named Frodo and I also made cartoons of him to our breed magazine. Not quite as professional as yours, but he just gave me inspirations about his shows, agility, obedience etc. and I had great fun making them 🙂
HIlppa from Finland
Hi Hilppa,
thank you so much for sharing your story with me. It’s nice to meet someone who can identify the feeling and experience we have in creating stories about the dogs in our life. I hope you continue to follow and laugh along with my strip. And to know that it’s touching some special memories of your Frodo, well I can’t express enough what that means to me. Thank you. Gord
Thank you for your reply, I will definitely follow the strips as I am one of the editors in GSM.
Hilppa
P.S. My Frodo was tricolour 🙂 Still quite a coincidence huh?
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Your Frodo is like my Duke…. who now has to adjust to a new whippersnapper on the scene. Hating the vacuum cleaner, playing fetch, begging for belly scratches, you summed it all up! I shared your link with our sheltie rescue group here in Wisconsin, USA along with my friends on Facebook.
How wonderful! Thank you so much Karen. Big hugs for Duke! Sincerely Gord
How can I contact the author. Preferably email?
Fantastic question Sarah and a very big oversight on my part. Since receiving your comment I have add a contact form on this page. If you or anyone wishes to write to me directly, simply fill out the form. Have a great day. Gordon