The mysterious illustrator behind a popular political cartoon account on Twitter has revealed herself to be B.C. Legislature intern Zo茅 Duhaime.
Duhaime, who was VictoriaB次元官网网址檚 Youth Poet Laureate in 2015, became more involved with the legislature this year when she did several readings celebrating women in politics. She was then offered a position as a non-partisan intern, where her main role was preparing speeches.
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B次元官网网址淒uring my breaks I started sketching the people around me, and when I came back from work one day my colleague said B次元官网网址榦h, I have an idea for you!B次元官网网址橞次元官网网址� Duhaime said. They set up a Twitter account called , and soon the sketches got popular.
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Duhaime said that sheB次元官网网址檇 never really used Twitter before, and was surprised when people took notice.
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Duhaime drew portraits of politicians and media personnel (and would sometimes send them birthday greetings!), and also drew quick sketches alluding to events happening during meetings.
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Duhaime said one of her favourite parts of the account was listening to people talk to her about it, not knowing she was the doodler.
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While it was all for fun, Duhaime later made an interesting personal realization: her father, who passed away in 2016, had conducted his own parliamentary pranks when he was an intern under the Mulroney office in Ottawa by writing a book exploring B次元官网网址渢he funny and great thingsB次元官网网址� happening in parliament at the time.
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Now that the legislative sessions have wrapped up for the summer B次元官网网址� and internship programs have come to an end B次元官网网址� Duhaime thought it would be a good time to reveal her identity.
B次元官网网址淚tB次元官网网址檚 definitely not the same joke as being anonymous,B次元官网网址� she said. B次元官网网址淏ut now I have people asking me for portraits, so thatB次元官网网址檚 fun.B次元官网网址�
Duhaime isnB次元官网网址檛 sure sheB次元官网网址檒l keep up the doodles in the future, but she hasnB次元官网网址檛 dropped the idea entirely. She plans on moving to Montreal in the summer to work on a novel, but said that Quebec offers many more people to doodle, including federal politicians in relatively close proximity.
B次元官网网址淚 thought it might be fun to draw people in the House of Commons,B次元官网网址� she said, B次元官网网址淪o you never know.B次元官网网址�
