The Canadian cartoonist James Llewellyn Frise is best known for his work on the comic strip Birdseye Center and his illustrations of humorous prose pieces by Greg Clark.

Gregory Clark, was a Canadian war veteran, journalist, and humourist. A reporter for the Toronto Star from 1911 through 1946, Clark gained fame in Canada for his coverage of various news events of the 1920s and 1930s, and particularly for his front-line coverage of World War II. He also began writing a popular humour column in the 1930s, which continued after he left the Star and was widely syndicated throughout Canada into the early 1970s.