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Mike Constable – RIP

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D. D. Degg Published: July 11, 2026 1 minute 0 comments

Canadian cartoonist Mike Constable has passed away.

Cartoonist, animator, humorist, syndicator, street performer, social activist.

From Bado:

It is with great sadness that I learned that cartoonist Mike Constable lost, last Friday, his battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

From Canadianaci:

He studied sculpture at the Ontario College of Art and later sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa. He co-founded and was editor of Guerilla, a Toronto underground newspaper that ran from 1969 through 1974. As the same time, he freelanced for, Canadian Tribune, The Financial Post, Maclean’s, Saturday Night, This Magazine, Toronto Life, The Toronto Star and other magazines in Canada and the U.S. He was editor of Piranha a humour magazine.

Add Globe and Mail, The Badger, Today, Report on Business, Portfoolio, and more to that list.

In 1977, he was one of the founders of Union Art Services, a co-operative mailing service of graphics and cartoons which went out to about forty-five labour publications.

Among Mike’s controversies was his 2005 “A Creature of Habits” animation featuring Pope Benedict XVI giving a statue of The Virgin Mary a Nazi salute while saying “Heil Mary!”

Mike Constable had a website now only available through The Wayback Machine.

Allen Booth has put together a compilation of Mike Constable’s political animated shorts.

Michael Connolly’s “How to Eat a Cat” documentary on Mike Constable from which the photos here are taken.