Alootook Ipellie

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Alootook Ipellie (1951-) was born on the land near Iqaluit, Nunavut. He is an Inuit illustrator and writer specializing in black and white line drawings and illustrations. Ipellie is an artist, cartoonist, illustrator, poet, scriptwriter, and journalist; he has worked on the publications Inuit and Inuit Today (as editor). His "Ice Box" cartoon series appeared in Inuit Monthly. His illustrations, poems, and articles have appeared in such periodicals as The Beaver, North, Inuit Monthly (later Inuit Today), Inukshuk, and Nunatsiaq News. He worked on the anthology Paper Stays Put (1980) with Robin Gedalof McGrath. His work also appears in Penny Petrone's Northern Voices: Inuit Writing in English (1988) and in Moses' and Goldie's Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English (1992). His art has been shown in Canada, Norway, and Greenland. Ipellie published Arctic Dreams and Nightmares, a collection of twenty stories and accompanying drawings, in 1993. He has contributed to Hans-Ludwig Blohm's The Voice of the Natives: The Canadian North and Alaska (2001).