unpublished cartoons from the past couple of months: the underground railroad tourist and The Shane Jolley Escapade all rolled into one cartoon

There was an article about tourists who are retracing the underground railroad route which had its final destination in Owen Sound. Also, recently, there were a bunch of stories about how Shane Jolley and a bunch of others were trying to catch bicycle thieves. For those who may not know, Jolley is both the owner of a bike store and our Green Party candidate, who by the way, got the highest percentage of votes of any greener in the whole province and came close to defeating my old "friend" (at least as a cartoon topic) Bill Murdoch.

unpublished cartoons from the past couple of months: The Chi-Cheemaun

Callaghan got his cartoon related to the Chi-Cheemaun (that's the ferry that runs between Tobermary and Manitoulin Island) in the paper. It was good. This is the one I did on that topic.

unpublished cartoons from the past couple of months: Health Care

This one, and the next ones directly below in the previous posting, all deal with the sad state of our health care. I really, really liked this one and I'm kinda sad it didn't make it to the paper, so I'm putting it here so some can see it anyway.

unpublished cartoons from the past couple of months: Health Care

The first three are obviously variations on the same theme... I just tried to make each one a little more biting than the previous one. The bottom cartoon is based on yet another story where some doctor is leaving a town in this area... I, too, have no family doctor as mine retired (I think)... All I know is one day he was there and the next day not. Now I share the same "doctor" that all too many people have : "Waiting List". I think all Canadians should be really ashamed and embarrassed by how far our once treasured health care system has slipped. And all politicians, and business people who worked so hard to create this current mess for personal gain... well, let's just say they're on a waiting list too, just like all of us and as the saying goes "You Can't Take It With You." Anyway, they must be extremely proud of the destruction they've caused... It took a lot of trickery and a good amount of hard work... not as much hard work, mind you as it will take to build it back up. It's always, unfortunately, easier to tear down than to build up. There... I've had my rant for now on this damned topic.

unpublished cartoons from the past couple of months: Nathaniels

This whole story of the waitress who participated in the "Cops for Cancer" Hair cutting shocked and disappointed a lot of people.... myself included. And from everything that came out over several days of media coverage is that the owners made a bad decision and then to make matters worse, issued one of the lamest apologies I've heard over such a grave issue. This is where satire belongs... to point the finger at social injustice and hold it up for ridicule. If nothing else comes out of this event, hopefully no boss will ever fire "or send a worker off for a long, unpaid "vacation" in Owen Sound, or anywhere for that matter, when that worker has done something as noble and personally sacrificing as participating in Cops for Cancer to help combat cancer. Period.

unpublished cartoons from the past couple of months

Here's four that I don't have much to add about.