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CSotD: Other voices, other sites

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Mike Peterson Published: October 11, 2012 1 minute 0 comments

Three places you should spend time today, described briefly and linked. No lilies will be gilded in the making of today's CSOTD.

The Big Deal today is emerging reports on the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning, which I really wanted to go to. And, seeing Mike Cope's extensive collection of photos and Tom Racine's video makes me really sorry I couldn't be there. I'm particularly pleased at how much they talk about the fun of having worked with kids. That's critical to the future of the medium.

I hope Anne Morse Hambrock is able to do this again next year, but I also hope the idea of smaller festivals like this catches on and people begin to stage them all around the country. Note that this was not a "Con" but reached out to the public beyond the existing fan base. That matters.

(And a large hat tip to Alan Gardner for the links)

Next up, another visit to New Zealand's Sarah Laing. I thought about featuring this as a CSOTD, but, for one thing, I just featured her recently and, for another, I don't like to post an entire 17-panel extended piece — it seems to overstep "fair use" — so I'd have sent you back to her site to read the rest anyway. 

If Ingmar Bergman had ever drawn a cartoon about gardening, this is what he would have come up with. And I say that affectionately, but only half-kidding. Her ability to seek, and find, meaning in life's small moments is always worth the trip.

I wish NPR's endless prattling about gardening contained half this much reflection. Go read it, really.

And, finally, let's talk about David Horsey, against whom I am filing a grievance with the International Association of Bloggers, Pundits and Thumbsuckers, because he keeps drawing cartoons that would touch off a good rant, and then writing the rant himself in violation of the union contract.