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Victor (Vic) Runtz was born in Arnprior, Ontario in 1922. During his navy career in WWII he visited Charlottetown where he met and later married Aletha Saunders. He began his career as cartoonist at The Guardian in Charlottetown, PEI, in 1948. Runtz covered all subjects in his cartoons at the Guardian including politics, the arts, the crows of Victoria Park, tourists, the railway etc.
The Runtz family later moved to Bangor, Maine, where Runtz worked for the Bangor Daily News. He later took a job at the University of Maine where he published his first book, "Here Today...Twenty Five Years of Cartoons by Vic Runtz". Runtz was also an amateur photographer, taking candid shots of events in Prince Edward Island. Upon retirement he returned to P.E.I where he died at the age of 79. In 2016, some of his photos were included in a book by Scott MacDonald, titled "Prince Edward Island Then and Now" which compares aerial photos originally taken by Runtz in 1947 to contemporary landscapes.