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I travelled with Adventure Canada to Northern Labrador. It’s wild, remote, desolate and, hands down, the most beautiful place I’ve ever been to. As an extra bonus adventure, I met Margaret Atwood onboard. She graciously drew some cartoons for
Apollo XI has fascinated me since childhood. I did this piece to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo landing.
Philip Roth was, and remains, one of my great literary heroes. The fact that he was such a friendly kibitzer made him even more heroic in my eyes.
I owe it all to Mad magazine. I did this piece for National Post to mark its sad demise.
I read 5 of Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knaussgard’s epic fictional memoir “My Struggle”. It’s filled with angst, dread, dysphoria and…humour. I didn’t make it through the 6th volume though. Too much of a struggle.
When Robert Mankoff, former cartoon master of the New Yorker, came to town, I was lucky enough to score an interview with him. He was very comical.
I was invited by Celestial Cruises to circumnavigate Cuba. Very beautiful. Wonderful people. Rich history. And great music everywhere.
My most recent Adventure Canada adventure was a circumnavigation of Iceland. There’s so much to see there…active volcanoes, glaciers and sheep. Lots and lots of sheep.
Spent time on assignment in London for the 2012 Summer Olympics. I ran around doing a million things every day. It was exhausting, but I loved it and couldn’t really get enough of it. As Samuel Johnson said…“When a man is tired of London, he
Adventure Canada invited me to join a trip to Greenland and the Arctic via The Northwest Passage. Mere words cannot describe the intense and dramatic beauty of what I saw. So I drew pictures too.
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