Category: Mike Bell

I’ve always been fascinated by cartoons. The role of the cartoonist is to take some aspect of ordinary life—something we all recognize—and create a scene that is a mirror of our own lives.

I turned eighty last December. With a bad family health history and two different battles with cancer I never thought I’d make it this far.

One of the things we ask children is, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” They may respond–a fireman, a nurse, a policeman, a truck driver or many other jobs from the stable world in which they live.

In the next several weeks various community groups will be approaching local elected leaders in the Comox Valley asking them to declare a Climate Change Emergency.

Every evening when I finish working on these chronicles I have a glass of wine and turn on the news, mostly the American news. It gives me a picture of a battle between two cultures: the Perfect World Culture and the emerging Climate Change Culture. Let’s take a look.