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Bob Simko
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John Byrne wrapped in Canadian Bacon ????
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Ugh! I don't even LIKE Canadian Bacon!!
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That's just un-American!
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Peter Martin
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Countries always want to claim successful people as their own, even if they have moved on to new places.
Whistler and Handel are both British to me, but if you ask an American or a German, they might give you a different answer.
Coincidentally, my permanent resident card for Canada came in the post today. Still a British citizen though.
Is Wolverine still considered a Canadian these days?
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Robert White
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Just reenact this scene from Mystery Science Theater 3000 whenever you get a chance and I'm sure Canada will stop bothering you, JB. ;)
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Jesus Garcia
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In a country where only natives can run for the presidency, it's likely you'll be forever branded as Canadian. Hell, Shatner pretty much moved to the US in 1955, and he's still labelled "Canadian". If nearly 60 years in the US -- AND captaining the very American Star Trek -- doesn't make him a Yank ... nothing will.
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John Byrne
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One amusing aspect of this came when I was handed the Superman assignment. I was still a Canadian citizen at that point, and one writer for, as I recall, a Boston newspaper fired of a tirade complaining about how inappropriate it was to have a Canadian in charge of so thoroughly American an icon as Superman. The writer was evidently unaware of Superman's "parentage"!
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Brad Krawchuk
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We Canadians are very possessive when it comes to people connected to our country. It's an odd habit that I'm as guilty of as anyone, but it seems that once someone personally or professionally becomes associated with us, we claim them as "ours" forever after.
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Aaron Smith
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I've met so many people who have been in America for years or even decades, some of whom are now citizens, who still refer to themselves as "Irish" or "Italian" or whatever. Maybe that mindset is so common that it makes it hard for others to accept that there are those who, like my wife, choose to think of themselves as American.
My wife's been here for over twenty years, got her citizenship a few years ago, and is American in every way and thinks of herself as an American. Yet she has friends who came here at the same time or before her who still consider themselves Polish.
Last time she went to Poland to visit her family, her father complained that she was embarrassing him by acting "too American," whatever that means!
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Martinho Correia
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JB you were the first living artist I knew about (circa 1979) and the first comic book artist who I took notice of. I loved your work. Sure I knew about Michelangelo and Leonardo, but John Byrne was alive, Canadian and even better a Calgarian, like me! Your work was exciting and you seemed to be a proud Canadian and Calgarian, bringing the X-men to Cowtown and inventing a cool Canadian super- team to fight them. This was no small feat to a 13 year old kid with a pie -in-the-sky dream of being an artist. In no small way you inspired me to follow that dream. Sorry, but to me you will always be, at least a little bit, a Canuck.
Edited by Martinho Correia on 20 March 2013 at 11:13pm
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Jeffery Tolbird
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I have a friend who was born in Canada of British parents who moved
to the US six months later. He joked about getting a Canadian passport
during the George W Bush years because of the hostility towards
Americans abroad.
I understand your feelings about American citizenship but early in your
career you made being Canadian cool! IMO! I mean Wolverine and
Alpha Flight made me want to visit such a wondrous land. As a
teenager, I remember walking across the Niagra falls bridge to the
canuck side and thought "this is John Byrne's homeland!" WOW!
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Anthony J Lombardi
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ohn Byrne wrapped in Canadian Bacon ????
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Ugh! I don't even LIKE Canadian Bacon!!
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That's just un-American!
~~~~~~~~~~~ Well we can fix that. Wrap JB in a hotdog bun and serve him with a slice of apple pie.
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Jeffery Tolbird
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Would the bacon be ginger spiced? Lol JK I'm sure it would be the best
bacon on the planet! If not a little Byrned! Ugh I know baaaad pun!
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John Byrne
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…Wolverine and Alpha Flight made me want to visit such a wondrous land.•• But, see, Wolverine is where my one and only surge of Canadian nationalism, forty years ago, eventually destroyed the entire comicbook industry!! Oh, the shame! The SHAME!!!!
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