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Keeping chickens is all the rage in urban gardens. It was recently approved in New York City and I guess that’s fine, provided people don’t keep roosters and everything is well-fenced. We lived next to a woman with chickens in New Zealand and the roosters would get us up waaaaaay before dawn, plus the chickens came into our garden and pecked through our veggies like feathered monsters.

Gordo juggles as Oscar does his research

Eggs must lay still for the last 3 days when incubating

chicks imprint on a substitute parent

The chicks aren't too happy with the planned roost

Ed helps out with the chicks

The chicks lost most of their Big Bird imprinting

Tags: cartoons, comic, eggs, free range, incubating, keeping chickens, looking after
This was the Sunday I had fun drawing.

Oscar's Arctic Marine Park

Tags: cartoon, comic, fish, fisheries, fisherman, fishing, marine park, protection, vessel

The military response to climate change

National security blanket

the commercial answer to climate change

The Earth Goddess, Gaia, appears in Arctic Circle

Gaia shows Oscar what the Arctic could become

A happy ending for the Arctic

Tags: cartoon, climate change, comic, earth day, gaia, global warming, illustration, series

The burping sheep strip in full
Scientists in Australia, no less, really are trying to breed sheep that burp less.

Tags: burp, burping, cartoon, comic, emissions, methane, reduce, ruminant, sheep
Falling a little behind with the work after hosting the folks and with a visit to NZ for a wedding on the cards. Here is a messy drawing table shot…I’m working on a short series about greedy Asian Carp.

Lots more to do!

Tags: busy, cartoon, comic, deadlines, desk, drawing, mess, messy, strip, untidy
As news reports that humans are driving species to extinction faster than ever, but GM discontinues the Hummer, this old Arctic Circle cartoon seemed worth a rerun:

I'm glad this cartoon about the Hummer became true

Tags: cartoon, comic, dodo, endangered, extinct, extinction, hummer, humvee, museum, species, SUV, tasmanian tiger

Oscar makes a stand against climate change

Prevention is better than cure

It's a strange microclimate in Snowpeak

Tags: cartoon, climate change, comic, penguin, rabbit, sea level rise, stilts, termites

Oscar misinterprets Freeganism

Oscar gets into the swing of Freeganism by dumpster diving

The retirement home is based on the one my Gran lives in

Tags: cartoon, comic, consumption, food waste, freegan
I had a feeling this wouldn’t fly – can’t go attacking particular brands. But it’s an irony that that luxury brand’s logo is so similar to CND’s.

Tags: cartoon, comic, pencil, reject, rough