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The mystery of the viral hockey tribute illustration has been revealed.
Author Kerry MacGregor of Kanata, who lives near Nice, France, said she was the one who posted a cartoon of Humboldt Broncos players in heaven, reaching out to Jonathan Pitre.
“Hey, you play?” one of the Broncos says to Jonathan in the drawing.
Pitre, 17, of Russell, died last week of complications related to his treatment for epidermolysis bullosa (EB). Two days later, 15 people died in a bus/truck crash in Saskatchewan. The bus was carrying the Broncos junior hockey team to a scheduled playoff game in northeastern Saskatchewan.
MacGregor’s illustration captures an uplifting idea — Jonathan, who was unable to play hockey due to his horrible skin disease, jumping onto a heavenly sheet of ice with members of the fallen Broncos.
Stories and tweets have been circulating ever since the drawing was posted online Monday, crediting Kingston artist Silvia Pecota with the illustration, but Pecota’s tribute shows a single Broncos player ready to step on the ice.
In Memory of the fatal crash 6th April 2018 – Saskatchewan.
Humboldt Broncos@HumboldtBroncos pic.twitter.com/5PqEFD94uQ
— Silvia Pecota (@silviapecota) April 10, 2018
MacGregor told this newspaper Tuesday that she had done the drawing, penning a simple “K” for Kerry in the lefthand corner.
MacGregor posted the illustration on Twitter, but didn’t use her usual account, wanting the tribute to be anonymous. She said she never dreamed her post would go viral, and felt the need to clarify the source of the drawing. Ottawa Senators PA announcer Stu Schwartz posted the image Monday evening and had 10,000 likes by Tuesday morning.
Speaking from France, MacGregor said she had been trying to work on her next “Ice Chips” book, a children’s hockey series she co-authors with her father, Roy MacGregor. But she couldn’t concentrate while distracted by the deaths in Saskatchewan, and the loss of Jonathan.
“It’s a kids book and it’s supposed to be happy,” MacGregor said. “I decided I had to get the idea out of my brain and put it on paper, and then maybe I’d be able to go back to my regular job.”
As to MacGregor’s backgroun as an artist: “I won a school drawing contest when I was 12” she said, laughing. She also did some clip art while going to school in Montreal, for which she was paid $15 per drawing.
In France, cartoon drawings are the chosen form of expression.
“Art creates this separate space, sometimes for justice and sometimes for an alternate ending,” MacGregor said.
For example, following the terrorist attack in Nice, a popular illustration showed a teddy bear (one had been photographed at the scene) caring for a child.
MacGregor wanted to create a happier ending to the recent tragedies in Canada, including continuing the “wave” created by Jonathan Pitre for sufferers of EB. The concept: Pitre joins forces with the Broncos.
“It was almost like he had a team sent to him,” MacGregor said.
wscanlan@postmedia.com
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Author Kerry MacGregor of Kanata, who lives near Nice, France, said she was the one who posted a cartoon of Humboldt Broncos players in heaven, reaching out to Jonathan Pitre.
“Hey, you play?” one of the Broncos says to Jonathan in the drawing.
Pitre, 17, of Russell, died last week of complications related to his treatment for epidermolysis bullosa (EB). Two days later, 15 people died in a bus/truck crash in Saskatchewan. The bus was carrying the Broncos junior hockey team to a scheduled playoff game in northeastern Saskatchewan.
MacGregor’s illustration captures an uplifting idea — Jonathan, who was unable to play hockey due to his horrible skin disease, jumping onto a heavenly sheet of ice with members of the fallen Broncos.
Stories and tweets have been circulating ever since the drawing was posted online Monday, crediting Kingston artist Silvia Pecota with the illustration, but Pecota’s tribute shows a single Broncos player ready to step on the ice.
In Memory of the fatal crash 6th April 2018 – Saskatchewan.
Humboldt Broncos@HumboldtBroncos pic.twitter.com/5PqEFD94uQ
— Silvia Pecota (@silviapecota) April 10, 2018
MacGregor told this newspaper Tuesday that she had done the drawing, penning a simple “K” for Kerry in the lefthand corner.
MacGregor posted the illustration on Twitter, but didn’t use her usual account, wanting the tribute to be anonymous. She said she never dreamed her post would go viral, and felt the need to clarify the source of the drawing. Ottawa Senators PA announcer Stu Schwartz posted the image Monday evening and had 10,000 likes by Tuesday morning.
Speaking from France, MacGregor said she had been trying to work on her next “Ice Chips” book, a children’s hockey series she co-authors with her father, Roy MacGregor. But she couldn’t concentrate while distracted by the deaths in Saskatchewan, and the loss of Jonathan.
“It’s a kids book and it’s supposed to be happy,” MacGregor said. “I decided I had to get the idea out of my brain and put it on paper, and then maybe I’d be able to go back to my regular job.”
As to MacGregor’s backgroun as an artist: “I won a school drawing contest when I was 12” she said, laughing. She also did some clip art while going to school in Montreal, for which she was paid $15 per drawing.
In France, cartoon drawings are the chosen form of expression.
“Art creates this separate space, sometimes for justice and sometimes for an alternate ending,” MacGregor said.
For example, following the terrorist attack in Nice, a popular illustration showed a teddy bear (one had been photographed at the scene) caring for a child.
MacGregor wanted to create a happier ending to the recent tragedies in Canada, including continuing the “wave” created by Jonathan Pitre for sufferers of EB. The concept: Pitre joins forces with the Broncos.
“It was almost like he had a team sent to him,” MacGregor said.
wscanlan@postmedia.com
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