Boarder Bob and a 90s Whistler Collaboration

The Whistler Museum and Pique Newsmagazine recently published a piece about “Boarder Bob,” a snowboarding comic strip that ran from the mid-1990s into the early 2000s.

It was a fun slice of Whistler’s creative history.

I recently dug up an old 3.5" disk labeled “Boarder Bob Scripts.”
1.40 MB of mid-90s optimism.

Somewhere on that disk are the original story drafts , assuming I can still find a way to open it.

I had the chance to collaborate on the strip with Olivier Roy for eight years. Oli drew and inked everything by hand. I wrote the stories.

Boarder Bob ran in Snowboard Canada Magazine and followed the misadventures of a slightly overconfident snowboarder trying to chase powder, sponsors, and survive a winter in Whistler.

It was scrappy. A little delusional. Very much of its time.

Grateful to have been part of that era, and great to see that chapter of mountain culture documented properly.

You can read the full feature on Boarder Bob at the Whistler Museum here:

You can read the Pique Newsmagazine article about Boarder Bob here:

If you’re interested in the broader story behind the Whistler Cartoonist Society, you can read more about the Whistler Cartoonist Society.

If anyone still has a working floppy drive, let me know.