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Gareth Lind
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My life’s creative passion is cartooning; I also love graphic design, which is my full-time gig. I draw funny animals and write biting satire.
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Guelph Film Festival starts today! It's been a pleasure working their excellent, boundary-pushing team in both my capacities as a designer and illustrator. With docs and thematic events in venues throughout our community, GFF encourages us to learn about people fighting for a better world.
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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May 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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My friend Nick Craine gave me permission to post this. He's worked as a commercial illustrator for decades. Now his clients have moved to AI. He is building decks. We need creative people who are telling the stories especially now. AI is robbing their talent to maker the rich richer.

Fuck you, AI.
April 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Our little slice of summer joy just got more real! #HappyHillside!
March 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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If, like me, you've dumped Netflix and are looking for alternative entertainment, check out this Canadian movie on CBC Gem set in New York in the 90s. It was just what I needed to get away from it all. Literary escapism.
March 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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February 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Our backyard snow
meter is maxing out
A round table covered with about 40 CN snow
February 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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This #familyday, let's think about how hard it is to find a family doctor in Ontario. #dougfordfailed #February27 #ONPoli @ontariogreens.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Important to know when we vote on #February27: Ontario comes in dead last in per-capita health care spending. Maybe that's one reason why 2.5 million of us have no family doctor and hospitals are in crisis. #DougFordFailed to get it done. #OnPoli

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The Ontario government spends the least amount per capita on health care in the country. (Statistical graph showing that Ontario only spent $5309.98 per person in 2024, with higher amounts in every other province.) Doug Ford had six years to fix health care. Instead he’s wasting $2.2 billion of your money on a mega-spa for the rich. #DougFordFailed to Get It Done.
February 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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October 27, 2024. Americans were warned.
January 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Doug Ford has failed based on the metrics he set for himself: 2.5 years ago, he promised 1.5 million homes by 2031. In 2024, there were 81K housing starts, well below the target of 125K. And he wants four more years? #DougFordFailed #OnPoli #OntarioElection

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January 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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#tbt #Weltschmerz 25 years ago (2 of 2, 00-01-20): "The budgetary virtues of a vegetable-based government are unassailable!" As you'll notice, I loved drawing (and lettering) then-mayor Mel Lastman, who makes his Weltschmerz premiere here. #OnPoli #municicide
Tony (sitting beside Ontario Premier Mike Harris: Not so! With modern biotechnology, we can insert the genes of every councillor into a single plant—preserving the essence of democracy without the fleshy, inefficient squabbling! Mike: …and without the irritating tendency towards insubordination. Tony: Face it, Mel. Genocracy is the wave of the future! There's no stopping progress, Mel. MEL?! Mel lies on his desk, strangled by his phone cord). To be continued!
January 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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#tbt #Weltschmerz 25 years ago (1 of 2, 00-01-20): Doug Ford's current hate-on for cities is a continuation of Tory animosity that started with #MikeHarris, who, with his toady #tonyclement, worked hard to amalgamate them and download provincial costs to their property tax base.
Tony "Cement" (actually Clement), Minister of Municicidal Affairs (holding a phone): Mel, you've got 24 hours to decide whether you wanna replace Toronto city council with a pea or a potato. Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman (yelling at his desk): Whaddaya MEAN?! That's RIDICULOUS! INSAND!! You CAN'T govern a major COSMOPOLITAN OLYMPIC CONTENDER with a… a… VEGETABLE! Tony (sitting in limo, a cyclist visible outside): Who says? Look, Mel, we've looked at every possibility—EVERY possibility—to cut costs. The budgetary virtues of a vegetable-based government are unassailable! Mel: But—BUT—that's UNDEMOCRATIC!
January 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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#Weltschmerz 25 years ago (2 of 2, 00-01-13): Many of Ontario's woes (broken health care, crumbling municipal infrastructure) originated with Harris' draconian edits. "Who needs cities, anyway? All they do is fill potholes." Hamcamkitchwatelph, anyone? #OnPoli #mikeharris #tonyclement #cartoon
January 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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#Weltschmerz 25 years ago (1 of 2, 00-01-13): When Mike Harris was elected in 1995, there were 850 municipalities in Ontario; within five years, there were 444. He was after efficiency, but according to the Frazer Institute (2019), the promised reduction in costs and taxes never happened.
Ontario Premier Mike Harris (looking over a map of Ontario): How inefficient. Harris circles Ottawa, Brockville and Kingston on the map. Harris: Lessee… we can amalgamate Ottawa, Brockville an' Kinston into Ottabrockston. Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Tony Clement: English only, to avoid duplication of services. Harris: And then we have Hamcamkitchwatelph to the west. But that's just spittin' distance from Toronto. Why not amalgamate 'em all? Then nobody'll need to commute! Clement: Reduced traffic congestion—good! A view of the Queen's Park legislature. Harris: Hmm… Tormisshamkitensink and Ottabrockston still got separate city halls—a duplicity of democratic services! Clement: not to mention 34 letters between them—a blatant waste of the taxpayer's alphabet!
January 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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25 years ago (2 of 2, 00-01-06): I'm impressed Eye Weekly in Toronto printed this. In my decade drawing #Weltschmerz, I had no rejections. “I didn't think anyone else would stoop as low as I have!” And here were are, with the world a much sicker place, thanks partly to this medium and its messages.
The producer, Frank and the women are looking at a screen, which shows a man jerking off. Producer: Oh no! Where is— iMac: 8…7… Woman: England, dammit! They've got a five-hour jump on us! Frank: I didn't think anyone else would stoop as low as I have! Producer: The world's a sick place, Frank. iMac: …6…5… Woman: I told ya we shoulda flown to New Zealand… Frank: This is appalling! All my training! All my sweat! All my semen! iMac: 4…3…2… Woman: OH! He came too soon! WILL YA LOOK AT THAT! Producer: YES! Producer: Let's just hope some other wackos on the other side of the world doesn't try the same thing! Frank: Yeah. I'd hate to be second coming.
January 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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25 years ago (1 of 2, 00-01-06): #NewYear — You'll need background on this one. In 1999, a Turkish guy, Mahir Çağrı, created a web page (mahir.faithweb.com/original.htm) so riddled with broken English that it became a viral sensation. (He claimed later that Sacha Baron Cohen based Borat on him.)
Frank (on a webpage at www.porntopia.com): Sure I have performance anxiety. The page has this text: I kiss you!!!!! Enter the hot and sexy new millineum (sic) with me – watch me cum at the stroke of midnite!!! Celebritate (sic) Y2K with Frank!! Horst and is friend Cosmo are watching Frank speak on a computer. Frank: But I won't resort to viagra. I'm confident this historic milestone in synchronized sex can be achieved without the aid of performance-enhancing drugs. Cosmo: You know this Mahir-wannabe? Horst: Not his web presence. Frank sits on a bed in skivvies in front of a camera. Cameraman: Five hours to go, Frank. You ready? Frank: As ready as I'll ever be, coach! Scantily clad woman, who had been in the background, looking at an iMac: Hey stud– bad news! Check out this website! iMac: …9…
January 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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#Weltschmerz 25 years ago: (2 out of 2, 99-12-30)
Frank (surrounded by microphones): This orgasm will be the first ever to be precisely synchronized with the rollover of a millennium—and broadcast lie on the internet at www.porntopia.com. A truly momentous event! Reporter: Ah huh. So you see this event as a … um … performance art piece, commenting perhaps on our fin-de-siècle culture of instant gratification? Frank: No, I see it as a way to become a celebrity and get rich—fast.
January 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I've been a slow on updating these #Weltschmerz 25 years ago comic strips. Catching up now. (1 out of 2, 99-12-30): #NewYear — Frank plans to create the first semen of the year 2000 and sell it to the highest bidder. #y2k #infertilitysupport
Reporter: What are YOUR plans for Y2K’s eve? Gambler at a slot machine, eyes glazed: I'm betting on the millennium bug mistaking the three zeros for jackpot. Pregnant woman waiting in a line (in the background is a sign with a directional arrow that says "Obstetrics 2 km"): I hope to have the first Y2Kid. But competition's stiff, y'know. And I gotta fight for a hospital bed—then hope no equipment kinks out. Frank (holding a martini glass): I plan to have the first orgasm of the year 2000. Reporter (a skeptical look on their face): That's … innovative. Who's the lucky beneficiary of your millennial semen? Frank: It'll be frozen and sold to the highest winner. My authentic Y2K sperm will be really big with infertile couples shopping for DNA with a certain je ne sais quoi…
January 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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25 years ago – 99-12-23 (2 of 2): #NewYear — will the glass be half full or half shattered into 2,000 pieces? #y2k #10bestlist #Apocashop #cartoon
Horst and Celia are sitting in the Y2K Café. Horst: We’re more likely to be alive today than at any other point in history. Seven percent of all people ever born will be crammed into that golden Y2K moment. And you feel LUCKY? Horst (sipping an expresso): No wonder the fabric of reality seems so threadbare. No wonder we keep frantically collecting new toys to fill lives that have been devalued by demographic inflation… Celia: Horst, I'm very, very relieved you have to work. I’ll be able to ENJOY new year’s for a change. Horst: But call me if you need your champagne bubbles burst.
December 28, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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#Weltschmerz 25 years ago – 99-12-23 (1 of 2): #NewYear — will the glass be half full or half shattered into 2,000 pieces? #y2k #10bestlist
Pages from a weekly, where this comic strip first appeared: • Mike Harris, Deadbeat Premier of the Year – pays no support to province • 10 Best Tunes for Cell Phone Ringers • 10 Most Under-rated Piercings • 10 Most Entertaining Wars on TV • Only 10 Shopping Days Left Till the End of the World – www. apocashop.com • 10 Lightest Rock Radio Station • 10 Least-Missed Extinct Species • 10 Worst “10-Best” Lists Horst is reading Eye Weekly, which has the headline “The Year in Disgust” headline on its cover. He is sitting in a café with his partner, Celia. Horst: New Year’s is like death. The whole year flashes before your eyes — divided into “10-best” lists. Celia: Well, it IS a time to let some parts of you die and some parts before be reborn. 2000! It's so… COSMIC! I feel so lucky to be alive today! Horst: You and 5,999,999,999 other people. It's not exactly uncommon, y’know—being alive today.
December 28, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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#Weltschmerz 25 years ago – 99-12-16 (2/2, because
@bsky.app only allows 4 images, so 8-panel comic strips are split over two posts) #millenniumbug #cartoon
Frank: The most over-hyped moment of … um … well, the millennium deserves to be commemorated with the most primal act possible. Horst: Donning silly hats? Frank: Sex. Horst: Hmm. It'll be bad sex, guaranteed. Frank: That was my concern. But I want to achieve a personal peak at the precise instant the odometer rolls over. Frank: For that I need control. Precision. I can't rely on the sloppy mechanics of intercourse. I can only rely on myself to attain the very first orgasm of the new millennium. Horst: YOU’RE GONNA JERK OFF ON Y2K? Frank: Shh! Not so loud! Someone might steal my idea!
December 28, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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#Weltschmerz 25 years ago – 99-12-16 (1/2, because @bsky.app only allows 4 images, so 8-panel comic strips are split over two posts): #y2k was rapidly approaching, and nobody knew for sure how bad it would be. The palpable dread was like our current state as we await #y2k25. #millenniumbug #cartoon
Horst and Frank are having drinks in a bar. Frank: So – are you planning to join any apocalyptic mass suicide cults for New Year's? Horst, a cigarette dangling from his mouth: No. Just workin’…although I guess programmers could be considered a doomsday cult. But suicidal? Depends on how the Y2-Cookie crumbles. Yourself? Frank: Oh, I've thought long and hard about how to celebrate it. Travel by camel to the Pyramids? Cruise to Antarctica? Buswhack the Amazon? Swoon through Paris or Rome? (The background shows these places.) Horst: It'll be a mega-letdown wherever you are. Better to hang out in Brampton. It can only go uphill from there. Frank: Exactly.
December 28, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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#HappySolstice , friends! #SaveWinter
A sunny winter scene: Snow-covered pine cones on evergreens mirror the deer tracks on a snowy slope, where there are also ski tracks. A fox, deep in snow, holds a sign that says, "Save winter."
December 21, 2024 at 6:03 PM