Gareth Lind
garethlind.bsky.social
Gareth Lind
@garethlind.bsky.social
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.
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
May 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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
Our little slice of summer joy just got more real! #HappyHillside!
March 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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
February 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Our backyard snow
meter is maxing out
February 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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
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

Source: www.statista.com/statistics/4...
February 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
October 27, 2024. Americans were warned.
January 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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

Source: www.amo.on.ca/sites/defaul...
January 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#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
January 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#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.
January 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
#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
#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.
January 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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.
January 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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.)
January 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
#Weltschmerz 25 years ago: (2 out of 2, 99-12-30)
January 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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
January 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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
December 28, 2024 at 10:14 PM
#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
December 28, 2024 at 10:10 PM
#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
December 28, 2024 at 10:02 PM
#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
December 28, 2024 at 9:56 PM
December 21, 2024 at 6:03 PM