Hervé St-Louis, founded Toon Doctor, a three-person animation studio specialized in Flash cartoon animation in 2001. He's been working in multimedia, animation and Web development since 1997. Currently, he works for communication agencies as a multimedia director and IT project manager for clients in the fields of banking, health, oil and gas, advertising, Web development, gaming and animation.
St-Louis likes animation as much as comics. He has an extensive collection of comic books from all over the world published in English, French and other languages. Because of his business background, he will often write about management and marketing topics related to comic books, but don’t get him wrong, he loves comics even if some of his arguments and positions frequently run afoul established thoughts.
As the founding publisher of The Comic Book Bin, St-Louis offers visitors an independent site where respectful and well-researched discourse on comic books is promoted, free of petty feuds, personal attacks, gossips and industry chit chat. He also abides by the editorial rules he first promoted and respects the freedom of expression of writers at The Comic Book Bin.
An alumnus of McGill University (History and Political Sciences), St-Louis also has many other post secondary degrees from schools such as Concordia University (Public Relations) and is doing his thesis-based masters in Strategic Studies at the Center for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary focused on Cyber-security- threats, attacks and influence.
Reach him at Coolstreak Cartoons in Calgary, Canada.
French 101
'Hervé', to the great surprise of many, is French for 'Harvey'. It's like Jean/John, Pierre/Peter, André/Andrew, Stéphane/Stephen, Mathieu/Matthew. If you have pronunciation issues use Harvey. 'Hervé', sounds like 'Airvey' when spoken.
When writing, if you can't find the special French character 'é' (e acute ) which is used tremendously in that language, it's safer to use just the plain 'e'. A lot of English speakers, trying to be polite, write e' but that looks odd.
The grammatically correct spelling for St-Louis in French is Saint-Louis. But Hervé uses the the shorthand instead. He doesn't use the dot - St.Louis, which is what his name would look like if it were spelled in English.
Hervé St-Louis, founded Toon Doctor, a three-person animation studio specialized in Flash cartoon animation in 2001. He's been working in multimedia, animation and Web development since 1997. Currently, he works for communication agencies as a multimedia director and IT project manager for clients in the fields of banking, health, oil and gas, advertising, Web development, gaming and animation.
