Nearly 500 PAWS comic strips--the complete 10-year collection--presented in one hilarious, insightful volume. A favourite with northerners and anyone who has spent time in the North.

In 1983 "PAWS" was launched as the first syndicated cartoon strip ever produced in the north. Since then it has appeared as a feature in 34 northern newspapers from Lynn Lake, Manitoba to Dutch Harbour, Alaska. Today "PAWS" remains the only successful northern cartoon strip in Canada and Alaska. It is carried by about 20 papers on a regular basis.

Doug Urquhart started out as a "bush baby." Raised in a tent while the family home was being built, he hated the smoky taste of a milk bottle nipple warmed over a campfire. Later, his experiences canoeing, camping and building a log cabin with his parents inspired Doug to spend his life in the North.
For more than 35 years, Doug worked all over northern Canada--as a prospector in northern Quebec and Ontario, biologist on the arctic islands, conservation officer in Fort Smith and Cambridge Bay, Northwest Territories, weather observer on the Yukon-NWT border, jail guard in Atlin, British Columbia, editorial cartoonist in Whitehorse, Yukon an environmental consultant in Yellowknife and the Yukon. Doug lives with his wife, Judi, and children, Robin and Daitlyn, in Whitehorse, Yukon. He is presently a member of the yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board and Chair of the Yukon Fish and Wildlife Enhancement Trust.

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