Plenty of Nothing

Argosy Cartoonist Kate Beaton

I wrote in an earlier post that I'd love to spend a week in the Mount Allison University archives researching the cartoon history of the student newspaper The Argosy.  William Wolfe-Wylie at Whispering Into the Mirror directs us to the website of Kate Beaton, a onetime Argosy cartoonist presently working in the Alberta Tar Sands.  She has a lovely comic sense and draws pissedoffedness really nicely, as Laura Secord here demonstrates.   I hope she has a minicomic.  She'd fit right in at MoCCA.  Douglas

Marching Flasks

Evangeline Brandt "Canadian Intellectual"

Evangeline Brandt "Finish Line"

Heritage Carrots

Evangeline Brandt "Ebb and Flow"

Bike-Locked Toboggan

Evangeline Brandt "On the Marsh"

Snow!

Evangeline Brandt "Cross Country"