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Just stumbled across this:

https://www.cbc.ca/artsprojects/22artists/

Want to make a note to come back to this later. I might need to revisit. Often.

Current Mood: busy

A Tor.com report on SF&F in Nairobi.

From Regina: a story about the consequences of not properly funding the details of international justice...within Canada. (No, I did not make a mistake using "international". There is at least one treaty involved here.)

David Brin asks - and is not alone in asking - when did optimism become Uncool?

Pete Evans at CBC News gets to the heart of the dispute between Canada Post Corp. and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers: the need of workers to avoid starvation in retirement. Even if Evans doesn't frame it with that language.

Also, we note Jason Kenney's quest to save Alberta from civilization. (This is not Mr. Kenney's POV about his goals, to be sure. But as Stephen Colbert once noted, reality does have a certain bias about these matters.)

Congratulations to NASA's Juno team for getting their probe into Jovian orbit yesterday. I won't call what you did "conquering" Jupiter, mind you, because of colonial-mindedness in the undertones of that. But what you did is a positive achievement!

If there's one thing my friendlist here, the one over on Facebook, and contacts elsewhere across the Web have confirmed in my mind, it's this: comics are for everyone what wants 'em.

Or at least, they ought to be.

That includes women, people of "other" sexual identities, people from across the ethnic spectrum, across the religious spectrum, across the age ranges, et cetera.

What bugs me is that some people whom I thought knew this at least as well as I did, if not better than I do...well, it seems they don't know it very well. Or if they did, they've forgotten the fact.

Worse, it's not even a surprise. More like a nagging bout of anger at something that should've been behind us all by now.

Fortunately, other people are already calling that first bunch out on that point.

MyDearPeabody, keep on calling them out on it.

It's going to be part of how we keep growing the industry pie back to where it ought to be.

More on other stuff later.

I've been working on some page-inking the last little while. I'm listening to Bruce Mau being interviewed by Shelagh Rogers on Sounds Like Canada right now. Mau is arguing that cynicism is a luxury that he cannot afford personally as a designer, and also, that as a society, we cannot afford it either. He's following up here on themes he's established in an article for The Walrus that was published within the last month.

I am inclined to believe him, and that puts me in a bit of a bind as someone who's trying to make a full-time living in the Cultural Industries. Or so it appears at the moment.

In a sense, in my work at the moment, I'm playing off of some of these pro-cynicism vibes. But, by choosing to draw comics for even a part of my living, I've committed myself to the optimistic side of the fence.

Am I wrong? And if so, in what sense?

Current Mood: productive
Current Music: CBC Radio One

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On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Entries tagged with optimism

CBC: 22 Artists Who Salvaged 2022

Things to Pay Attention To

Women - "Others" in General, Actually - and Comics: A Brief Comment and an Encouragement

Cynicism: A Too-Expensive Luxury?

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