Start the year off warmly
2020 started with half of Australia on fire, it raining cats and dogs, once in a century snowfalls, planes being shot out of the sky, nations at war and reassuring words from the management. 2023 featured half of Canada on fire, nations at war and orange skies. It was hard to breathe and we got…
Sorting out the sharing
Yes, traction and followers are the point. These cartoons are pointless unless they’re seen and social media is the distribution system. WordPress’ built in share does now post to Mastodon and Bluesky and posts only to the designated account of which for each there can be only one. Manually sharing the post from the blog…
The Curly Head Ballet
In The Curly Head Ballet, Natasha finds herself in a village of fairy spirits where she learns to dance. The Curly Head Ballet is a 32 page original story told in comic book format printed and hand bound as a first edition printing of 24 copies. A bit of a stage play, a startle of…
It’s a LondOntLife #7
Fresh off of the desktop, this year’s collection of cartoons is live and available as a PDF digital download with 89 cartoons across 52 high resolution pages.
Year end 2023 review
We are suddenly realizing it’s time, it’s time to come to end of things, again: the end of December and the end of the year, the end of accounting and the time when we need to assemble all those scraps and collate things into some kind of order. So as far as Londontlife is concerned,…
Stores … progress … trees
It is beginning to look like it’s going to be easier – and a bit more straightforward – to have one store at Society6. It will feature basically prints and mugs. We would love to put up various prints of the Londontlife cartoons, but feel they won’t always have a universal appeal. The Londontlife material…
Stores, stores, stores…
Looks like I have three stores going. Two Society6 and one here at WordPress with Woo. There’s Instagram and Facebook integration for a few items. Square seems to be the most useful for in-person selling-a-thing using that little plastic doohickey. WordPress and Woo like Stripe. For a time back there, I couldn’t access the previous…
It’s a LondOntLife #6 begins
It’s a Londontlife#6 is at the printers for proofs. It’s always exciting for the new book to come out. And this one is packed with 83 cartoons – a record – over 52 5×7 inch pages. Yes, I should be thinking in metric. I am that old. And Tingfest is on again! It’s been three…
This isn’t as easy as throwing a rolled up newspaper at your front door
Distribution: The advice is “Go wide not deep” even as the audience for LondOntLife is siloed, localized to London Ontario What we are pondering. I want, simply, to draw the cartoon and share it. Managing all this is a drag. Where you can find us The distribution from Twitter is the heart of this question.…
Doug Ford’s Mighty Not Withstanding hammer slams again.
From page 21 of It’s a Londontlife #2. We lost a lot of work somehow in a failed backup crash power outage disaster. I don’t know. Work from 2018 and 2019 was amongst that. Anyway. This was Drug Frod’s first use of the Not Withstanding to dismantle the Toronto city council. Horribly prescient. The Samupress…