The chant “There’s only one taxpayer!” has come to mean “Me”, and, “Stop taking my money”. When Doug Ford says it, he means him, not you. When you say it, it means you, not someone else. Let’s not forget it was some kind of “common-sense” wisdom started by those who
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cartoon life: The return of the King.
The daughter has returned home from University for the summer. We are settling into restoring a bedroom long become a closet for large things. Beneath the bed, in detritus of years, lay the King. Where do the lost socks go? Mysteriously they disappear from the wash and laundry cycle. Or
Continue readingcartoon life: Bell Hell
Cancelled the landline phone. Now we have no third party internet. Seems like Bell will have to come to replace the wire. Yes the physical wire belongs to Bell. And what are they replacing the physical cable with? A physical cable. Only this physical cable belongs to Teksavvy. And Bell
Continue readingcartoon life: On the river
I walk over the Thames south branch bridge on Wellington Road. This tree has been there for quite a few weeks. The colour and feel was right today.
Continue readingcartoon life: TheZazzle store plugs along
Yes, it’s been a while since I added any products. Once a year they drop $50 bucks into my Paypal account, so I really can’t complain. And I have been busy with a shift in emphasis towards Londontlife. I’m not so certain that the editorial cartoons have a wide
Continue readingcartoon life: On Predictions
I modified my Procreate brushes collections into Fave Inkers, Fave Sketch, Fave Paint, etc. I also realized I could set contained size ranges for various brushes. So I have for lettering now, Script 1 to 5, Script 4 to 15, and the original fat Script in my Fave Lettering set.
Continue readingcartoon life: Doug Putin
Cartoons on LondOntLife are are shared based on a premise that people will maybe use and remix them. Here I rework the drawing, running the drawing through Inkwork. I do that sometimes just to see what variety it produces. Then popped back into Procreate for some painting. Here, our Provincial
Continue readingcartoon life: Easy to taste Art History with Waldemar
I am intensely enjoying Waldemar Januszczak‘s art history episodes on YouTube. I started with https://youtu.be/M4o1dc41r28 , his Dark Ages: An Age of Light, and YouTube rounded up https://youtu.be/M4o1dc41r28 Baroque: From St Peter’s to St Paul’s. There seem to be quite few. more. Having completed a binge watch of Tony Robinsons’s
Continue readingcartoon life: Four heads
Wow. Picked a neglected brush in a Procreate and drew these (bragging) with no underdrawing, but direct. All lively accidents intact.
Continue readingcartoon life: Getting Out of the Byron Bubble
The View from Oxford & Maitland In my very first column, I wrote about living in Byron in good ole London Ontario, a very busy life and how I was oblivious to and ready didn’t care as to what was happening in the rest of the city. I am not
Continue readingcartoon life: Sometimes, in between.
A four panel comic for Sammy. I got a copy of Polarr Deep Crop (iPad) and one of the things it does is this four frame collage with a chosen image cropped in various ways. The AI chosen crops for this structure seem random, but they seem to have a story
Continue readingcartoon life: Man with scythe
# Man with scythe Maybe late 50’s, early 60’s, after we had moved to the Queens Ave house, I would walk along Queens Ave to Queens Place and down that small lane to Lorne Avenue School\. The dirt lane off English Street was more fun, but the bully thugs hung
Continue readingcartoon life: She makes children of us all’: Guardian writers pick their favourite Kate Bush lyrics
Could be in a dream Our clothes are on the beach These prints of our feet Lead right up to the sea No one, no one is here No one, no one is here We stand in the Atlantic We become panoramic And Who knows who wrote that song of
Continue readingcartoon life: Sometimes events just get away from you
One of the delights, and one of the devils are the same thing: the rapidity of electronic media. It allows immediate responses and demands immediate postings. And even the start of this image is buried beneath how easy it was to dive in, refine, refinish and cover up everything from
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