Quebec Cartoonist Christian Daigle Passes

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It is with sadness that we learned of the passing of Christian Daigle, better known by his pseudonym Fleg.

He died yesterday from grade 4 pancreatic cancer, which he had been suffering from for the last year.

Our thoughts are with his family and his partner Chantal.

Born in Lévis in 1963, he was a substitute cartoonist at the daily newspaper Le Soleil from 2002 to 2011, and then published on a daily basis cartoons on the Yahoo Québec website for the next five years.

In 2015, he briefly replaced Garnotte at Le Devoir during the latter's vacation and, until recently, worked for Libre Média.

In addition to his talents as a caricaturist, Fleg was an outstanding sculptor.

Terry Mosher (Aislin) with a bust of himself by Quebec City cartoonist Christian Daigle

In both 2014 and 2016, he received the Townsend Award from the Association of Canadian Cartoonists, given out to the cartoonist deemed most deserving by his peers.

In 2012, he participated in the "Cartooning Calamities" exhibition at the McCord Museum.

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Here is a selection of his work:

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