published cartoons: Sept. 10/08: Branningham Grove faces deomolition

I ate there once when it was in one of its restaurant incarnations. It was beautiful... the food was o.k., too. It seems a shame that it's going to be plowed under, likely.
Having said that, let me share a personal anecdote about this cartoon. I went over to my neighbourhood friend's porch where a bundle of papers are dropped off for his son to deliver. I
took my copy, and as I was walking home I turned to page "A4" to see if I had a cartoon in that day. I did. It was the "Contractor Tales" one you will see posted below. I set the paper aside to do some housework. In the afternoon that neighbour asked me what I did to get two cartoons in the paper in one day. I said, "What?" (I thought he was pulling my leg). He said he was serious, so I immediately thought I must be blind. I asked him where it was? He said right beside the other one on the opposite page, (A5), accompanied by a letter from some reader. So I went and checked it out and sure enough there it was.
So I'm not blind, just unobservant... but I already knew that. Anyway, I was really glad this one got printed because I spent some time at it and consider it more a work of "fine" art than a cartoon. (Does that make cartoons "not-so-fine art"??? Apologies to my cartoonist soldiers in arms... ) Maybe what i mean to say is that I was just shooting for more visual realism than caricature or visual jokes.

published cartoons: Sept. 10/08: Contractor tales

When I read the story about the contractor fraud I just made the connection to politics. To be fair to contractors in general, I think a much higher percentage of them do what they say they will and what they get paid to do than politicians.

published cartoons: Sept. 6/08: Hockey Moms

I like hockey moms! Not personally, just theoretically. But I think this Palin circus in the States is giving hockey moms a bad name. And it doesn't matter who the next President is because I don't think they care too much about what we think.... Heck, some of their presidents probably couldn't even spell "Canada", let alone tell you much about it. Although some Canadian Prime Ministers don't want to tell them anything; they just want to suck up to them to get whatever it is they must be getting... And that's how I feel about that.

published cartoons

Maybe it's the best thing to do to tear it down and build new, maybe it's not. Seems like the money they're getting to build new could be used to restore the old part. It just seems a shame that so much of what makes this city unique is being lost lately. If the goal is to look like every other city around our size then I'd say we're well on our way. But once this stuff is gone, it's pretty well gone.... the same as aspects of the environment... like endangered animals, clean air, clean water and all that kind of cost prohibitive stuff that, without imagination, is hard to make a buck on. All I know is that if and when the world ever ends there's going to be a whole whack of rich people with sheepish grins on their faces praying to reverse everything they and others had done. And so it goes.