Here’s one for those of you who find the goings-on in Ottawa, past and present, a bit dispiriting.
From 2015, when Trudeaumania 2.0 hit the media.
It’s a slow, inefficient, archaic holdover from the pre-digital world, but dammit, Canada Post belongs to the people!
The most popular thing of mine in The Vancouver Courier was the regular “Sketchbook Survey” lampooning Vancouverites. From 2017, during the west coast wildfires that resulted in sci-fi scenes….
…like this.
Also from 2017: a new toon containing an old toon. The editor killed this one - not because it was too meta or too self-indulgent, but because it quoted and answered a female reader!
In the five years since I did this one, the extremes between rich and poor in Vancouver have only increased, of course.
And if we’re dipping into the archives, a cartoon on Trump is unavoidable. This one references his 2017 threat to bring “fire and fury like the world has never seen” to Kim Jong-un’s North Korea. Some time later Trump told followers at a rally he and Kim “fell in love” following a letters exchange. Huh? Oh well, better mad affection than mass extinction.
This one from 2012 made me laugh (and I rarely laugh at my own stuff). I liked the idea that aliens would be supremely offended by nudies sent their direction, and that astronomer Carl Sagan would bear posthumous responsibility for an attack on Earth.
Great work. Would love to see a larger collection.
I'm torn between the 'sketchbook' and 'Trudeau walks on water', both very timely, as it happens ...