Adrian Raeside

Adrian Raeside (born 1957 in Dunedin, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born Canadian author, comic strip creator and founder of an animation company.

Early years He began drawing cartoons on washroom walls as a kid. he moved with his parents to England, then to Canada. Over the next four years, he created, directed and produced dozens of animated shows for Turner Broadcasting and Children's Television Workshop, adapting two Jim Henson Muppet characters for animation. In 2009 he published Return to Antarctica, an account of his grandfather Sir Charles (Silas) Wrights' experience on Captain Robert Scott's 1910 British Antarctic Expedition to be first to reach the South Pole, which resulted in the death of Scott and four companions. Raeside researched the book by travelling to Cape Evans, in the Ross Sea, following in his grandfather's footsteps. Raeside is also related to two other members of the Scott Expedition: Sir Raymond Priestley and Griffith Taylor. Beside the book Return to Antarctica, Raeside produced a 1-hour documentary of the same name.

Raeside published No Sailing Waits and Other Ferry Tales, a collection of BC ferry-related editorial cartoons in 2012 by Harbour Publishing, followed by a collection of dog-related strips from The Other Coast strip called Tails Don't Lie - A Decade of Dog Cartoons (70 in Dog Years) also published by Harbour Publishing in 2013, remained on the bestseller list for over 6 months. Raeside wrote and illustrated The Rainbow Bridge - A Visit to Pet Paradise (Harbour 2012) as a way to comfort those who have lost a pet.

Adrian Raeside lives in Whistler, British Columbia. The Demented Decade (1993) The Other Coast: Road Rage In Beverly Hills (2004) Return to Antarctica: The Amazing Adventure of Sir Charles Wright on Robert Scott's Journey to the South Pole (2009) No Sailing Waits And Other Ferry Tales: 30 Years of BC Ferries Cartoons (2012) Tails Don't Lie: A Decade of Dog Cartoons (70 In Dog Years) (2013) The Best of Adrian Raeside: A Treasury of BC Cartoons (2014) Tails Don't Lie 2: A Pack Of Dog Cartoons (2017) The Rainbow Bridge: A Visit to Pet Paradise (2020) The World According to Dogs: An Owner's Manual (2021) Wildlife for Idiots: And Other Animal Cartoons (2022) Paradise for Cats: A Return to the Rainbow Bridge (2023) The Canada Handbook (2025)