I had a great punchline for a comic and on my way to write it down, forgot it. So there is another treasure lost to you all.

Also expect a Cora Hind comic this weekend, and maybe if you are lucky one on Lower Fort Garry because I am going there wheee!

Some things for you to know!

Where were you last night? I bet you were not at the St. Boniface Museum, at the performance by the great local artist Christine Fellows. She did a performance which was comprised of new works, all influenced by the pieces she has observed at the St. Boniface Museum during her time as the artist in residence at Le Musée de Saint-Boniface. Amazing, right? The whole song cycle was called Reliquary and was amazing. It was a multi-disciplinary approach with music, video and visuals. History is, as I’ve always said, the awesome. The show looked kind of like this, but was held inside the chapel of the Museum in the dark with selected lighting and also a stuffed fox and a stuff calf. It was an incredible, intimate experience and even though they were recording the performance, I suspect that it will be hard to top the live affair.

And did  you know the History Channel put out a video game? THIS IS CRAZY. It is about the Civil War. So, yay history video game, but boo no Canadian history video game. Perhaps I need to create one. This sounds like an easy task. Anyway, you cannot assassinate the generals in the game so I lost interest quickly.

Lastly, you may be thinking “Hey you jerk, why are you not updating more” and to that I say “I am working at my job that pays me money so I try to get things done on the weekend and please just wait patiently or I might start crying.”

LOGO

Unless you can think of something better.

Seriously, is that not the most badass thing ever? YEAHHH SOMEONE PUNCHING THROUGH A MAPLE LEAF!!!! As the internet has taught us, punching through things is awesome. The logo isn’t really relevant to anything and in fact kind of runs contrary to the “yay Canada yay Winnipeg yay Manitoba yay History” idea I’m going on here but PUNCHING. THROUGH. A LEAF. Take that, symbolism.

VOTE

What’s great about Canadian history is that we have so many great women, but their presence is largely overshadowed by their white male colleagues. So what’s great about this is that I have a great selection of people I could do a comic about. It’s time to exercise the right that Alexander Mackenzie gave you and VOTE FOR THE TOPIC OF AN UPCOMING COMIC!

In retrospect I shouldn’t have put “other” because that doesn’t actually mean anything at all so if you pick that you should probably identify your write in candidate in the comments.

Back! and A Question!

I have returned! Now that I have an Internet and an Apartment, I am ready to rock (yeah!) and roll (yeah yeah!).

But first a question: I’ve noticed that on my browser (Google Chrome) the comics appear fine here, in a completely normal and non-cut-off sort of way. But on other browsers I see that they are sometimes overly gigantic and impossible to read. So if you cannot see some or all of them, please comment on this post or any post with issues and then I can resolve them. And let me know the browser you are using too, because then something might be able to happen that way too.

007.The Origin of LBP

Someone should buy me drawing classes. Everything I draw seems to be in an alarming state of rigor mortis.  I feel bad too because I like Lester Pearson, and I feel as though I’ve done a disservice to him by making look so, uh, unlike himself.  But hopefully you get the idea anyway.

I think that part of the problem is that Canada in particular, or at least the way that history has been written about it, is filled almost exclusively with the tales of white men. At least they used to have some definition; nowadays everyone even looks more the same. Although I did pick up a book about Western Canadian women in the late 1800s, so that should yield some other ideas.

But I digress. What is LBP without his bow tie? Still an awesome PM, but not an awesome PM with a bow tie, let me tell you.

BONUS!
Because clearly I have issues and am a nerd all day long.

UPDATE: I just noticed I spelled ‘awesome’ wrong. URRRGHH. Too bad for you because I am too lazy to change it.

A Warning

In the process of moving, so this may not be updated until I get my internet back next week. But I have ideas, so don’t you worry.

Also, Gary Doer, the Premier of Manitoba, has resigned. Probably to go on a reunion tour with his former punk band Gary and the Doers.