Departures of note

Bus Griffiths, born Gilbert Joseph Griffiths in 1913 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, spent his working life in the woods and on the water. After years as a logger, he began drawing cartoons about the trade, contributing to Vancouver's Maple Leaf Publishing during World War II and creating logging comic strips for BC Lumberman magazine. He retired from logging in 1961 and became a commercial fisherman.

In 1972, Griffiths began work on Now You're Logging, a graphic novel published in 1978 by Harbour Publishing. The book documented logging as it was practiced in the 1930s, before modern technology transformed the industry. It illustrated and explained tree felling, log bucking, high climbers, chasers, choker setters, a hooktender, an accident and rescue, the use of the crosscut saw, rigging, a spar tree, log transport by truck and water, and the operation of a steam donkey. This technical account was interwoven with a love story between a logger and the daughter of a fishing family near their camp.

The Comics Journal praised the work in 1996 as 'a true anomaly: written and drawn by a man with decades of experience in the woods, it's a book with no clear antecedent, more intent on documenting a way of life than telling a story,' adding that it 'might just change your perception of what comics are, what they can do, and why we need them.' Griffiths also illustrated the children's book Patrick and the Backhoe by Howard White and Bush Poems by Peter Trower.

Griffiths died on September 25, 2006, in Comox, British Columbia, at the age of 92 or 93.