Arctic Circle Cartoons

Occupy Cartoons

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:51:04 +0000

When I wrote this series about 8 weeks ago, I thought I’d be a little late for the whole Occupy Movement thing. But, with the economic protests/riots in Europe and the conversations continuing in the US about the 99%, it seems this movement has legs.

Dodgems Are the Only Ride I Really Like at the Fairground

admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 23:17:38 +0000

I’m surprised this cartoon went through as is because, now that I think about it, dodgems are called bumper cars in the US, aren’t they?

Anyway, I love the dodgems and pretty much hate all other fairground rides because I don’t like
a. being scared and
b. throwing up.

And can anyone reading name the film they’re watching?

This Statue is Odd Looking, But I Like It

admin — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:08:12 +0000

The statue in this strip was copied, with cartoonist licence (and France’s approval), from a photo on France Rivet’s blog.

Rejected Roughs of the Fortnight

admin — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:22:10 +0000

This Sunday was rejected because

This isn’t really an ARCTIC CIRCLE comic — it’s just a comic about the absurdity of Shakespearian actors, and you’ve used AC as the vehicle to tell the joke. If you’re going to do this, I don’t think you should use the Sunday stage. Do you object?

I don’t – he’s right – I wrote this after watching Hamlet.

And this daily has to go because it’s

Too suggestive of male enhancement. I think some newspaper editors/readers will object to you trying to sneak in something too “adult” for their taste.

I had to agree with Brendan on this, but editors have filthy minds…

Getting Rid of Unpleasant Smells

admin — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:54:42 +0000

This generated some comments on Daily Ink, including:

How are you supposed to get the smell out of major living areas, then??

I replied:

Open a window, cook something nice like fresh bread, pick some nice natural flowers, use dishes of baking soda, or natural lavender or eucalyptus oil, or simply strike a match or have a tea light in the bathroom that you can light.

Hunting Game

admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:16:38 +0000

I’ve never shot anything, but I think it is good to face up to where the meat we eat comes from. We aren’t growing it in the lab (yet…), so every bit of meat we eat comes from an animal that was killed. I don’t eat anything unless I know that it had a good life and a humane death.

But I think I would struggle to shoot a deer (or a duck).

Global Warming Ruining Agriculture? Start a Phoenix Farm..

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:33:24 +0000

Oscar’s Igloo Redesign Comic Strips

admin — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:35:51 +0000

Following on from this week’s Sunday cartoon, here are some more of Oscar’s igloo redesigns:

Hamster Power Cartoon

admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:52:04 +0000

I’m not making this up: there really is such a thing as hamster power:

hamster powered submarine

Sea Ice, Hunting, Polar Bears and the Inuit

admin — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:16:08 +0000

This cartoon caused some comment on Daily Ink:

Posted 04/07/2012, 06:53am
Why take a job with a major oil company when you can continue your prehistoric subsistence life-style so admired by the Greenies?

Posted 04/07/2012, 08:32am
I remember back in the Seventies when they wanted to ban Snowmobiles in the north. Inuit were not impressed.

Posted 04/07/2012, 11:16am
This type of thing may have been true in the 1960s and ’70s, but today, Inuit advise Environment Canada & the Nunavut Dept. of Environment in regards to environmental and land management (called the Elders Advisory Committee or Inutuqait Mianiksijiit Angngutiksanik). (I’m kind of into Arctic Studies!)

My response:

I was commenting more on the fact that sea ice is shrinking and that a lot of Inuit (and polar bears) use this sea ice for hunting.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070515-inuit-arctic.html

“And faster-melting ice is causing a decrease in hunting days each year, while igloos, which native hunters prefer to tents when they are on the trail, are much harder to build with less snow and ice.”

And the reason that sea ice is shrinking? Global warming caused by massive release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere (mainly from fossil fuel burning, but also release of methane from the melting permafrost).

Everyone is entitled to their point of view on this, but the science overwhelmingly points to climate change being real and the sooner we switch to cleaner fuels, the better.