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An­i­mae Caribbean and a group of stu­dents at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) pur­su­ing a diplo­ma in an­i­ma­tion, have got­ton to­geth­er to re­mem­ber Dun­stan Eu­gene Williams (DEW), for­mer car­toon­ist of the Trinidad Guardian.The work of this state­ment will be on show from No­vem­ber 26-28 at the Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts at the An­i­mae Caribe An­i­ma­tion and New Me­dia Fes­ti­val.

The ex­hi­bi­tion is the brain­child of UTT's An­i­ma­tion Diplo­ma Pro­gramme Su­per­vi­sor and An­i­mae Caribe's founder and Fes­ti­val Di­rec­tor, Camille Selvon Abra­hams.DEW's sharp wit and bold draw­ings made Trin­bag­o­ni­ans laugh at Trinidad Guardian dai­ly for 35 years. He re­tired in June of 1995.He drew hu­mor­ous one-pan­el car­toons called "Dat's Dat" and So Dey Say. These draw­ings were a win­dow in­to the Trini­d­i­an psy­che, and DEW's un­der­stand­ing of it was amaz­ing.

DEW, 69, was a well-re­spect­ed car­toon­ist, lo­cal­ly, re­gion­al­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly, and he held the torch hand­ed to him by such stal­warts like Juan Mar­tin (JM), J Newell-Lewis (Ar­chi­tect) and Dereck Ale­ong. He car­ried on the rich tra­di­tion of car­toon­ing, pi­o­neered by the Trinidad Guardian.DEW shied away from po­lit­i­cal car­toon­ing, be­cause he feared the "nar­row-mind­ed­ness of politi­cians" of the day.

His first lo­cal car­toon was City Jam (see il­lus­tra­tion), but DEW's work has been fea­tured in nu­mer­ous pub­li­ca­tions–lo­cal and for­eign.

Among his var­ied in­ter­ests were the en­vi­ron­ment (Field Nat­u­ral­ist Club), pho­tog­ra­phy, clay mod­el­ling, set de­sign­ing and vol­un­teer work at the Cheshire Home in Pleas­antville, San Fer­nan­do.The cel­e­brat­ed car­toon­ist won nu­mer­ous awards, and his work was ex­hib­it­ed in Bul­gar­ia, Cana­da, Cu­ba, Ger­many, Greece, Swe­den, Turkey and Yu­goslavia.

He died in his sleep on De­cem­ber 11, 2004, and was cre­mat­ed on De­cem­ber 14, 2004. Ear­li­er this year, DEW was ho­n­oured posthu­mous­ly by the lo­cal Pub­lish­ers and Broad­cast­er's As­so­ci­a­tion. Pre­vi­ous­ly, Gen­e­sis Com­ic Col­lec­tors' Club ho­n­oured him in No­vem­ber of 1999.