A Transitional Period
by T. Hodler
Monday, December 27, 2010
For your reading pleasure, a gem passed on by Marv Newland, via Robin McConnell: A 1981 article from Vancouver magazine by Les Wiseman. It’s a good look at the period when the “underground” scene was shifting into “independent,” and features such major Canadian cartooning figures as George Metzger, Rand Homes, and David Boswell. Enjoy.
Labels: David Boswell, George Metzger, Les Wiseman, Rand Holmes
Someone get the webdesigner to make this usable. There’s a wordpress plugin called Lightbox 2 it will make this a nice clickable gallery. The other thing that helps is changing the setting for your gallery to “link to file”, so at least we don’t get that intermediary page.
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