A few more blasts from the past, with comments, while I work on my next thing…
I was a big X-Files fan, which explains why I depicted FBI agents Mulder and Scully in a few Vancouver Courier cartoons. This one from 2016 still works, I think. Since that date Vancouver real estate prices have continued to climb, plateauing briefly before levitating impossibly upward through a pandemic.
Speaking of paranormal, it still seems odd to me that a provincial NDP government ruled Alberta for four years. Luckily, in 2019 the pinkos were chased out of Canada’s prairie petrostate by United Conservative Jason Kenny. Genuflecting oil industry executives warbled Kumbaya while apple-cheeked Albertan children, freed from socialist reeducation camps, danced in the streets. It’s been absolutely perfect there since.
I did this one for the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s seminal “I have a dream” speech. It was my effort to counter the liberal-left love affair with Obomber, who raised the two Bush/Cheney wars of aggression (Afghanistan, Iraq) to seven (Afghanistan and Iraq, plus airstrikes or military raids on Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan). The cartoon had a big positive reader response.
I liked this one for its ambiguity. It was hard to tell if I endorsed Brexit or not - though a hint was supplied by the dubious look from John Bull’s bulldog.
This one was out of left field. No idea how I came up with the concept. Could have been something I ate.
Not much a fracking fan. It continues in Western Canada, but the topic doesn’t seem to get much attention these days from the Corona Broadcasting Corporation and other pandemic-preoccupied portals.
thanks for the much needed laughs...keep 'em coming!
Clever boy -and onto politics the way so few are now- sadly -probably due to computers ( or "pooters' as my Aussie friend calls them.