Tom Shoyama (1915-2006), a great Canadian who happened to be of Japanese descent.
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* This comic was originally published in the Nikkei Voice in November 2013.
© 2013 Raymond Nakamura
Thomas Shoyama — A Great Canadian
Raymond Nakamura lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. When he is not personal assistant to his daughter, he writes Vogon poetry, draws cartoons rejected by the New Yorker and gives tours of Powell Street, the Japanese community where his mother grew up before World War II. He has a poem about being an ice hockey goalie in a children’s sport poetry anthology called And the Crowd Goes Wild. www.raymondsbrain.com.
Updated October 2012
