Marvellous Maps
I’ve always been fascinated by maps. When I was a kid I declared to anyone who would listen that when I grew up I was going to work as a “mapmaker”. To train myself I would copy maps out of atlases and try to squeeze as many place names and geographic features as possible. Then I later found out that the correct name for “map making” was “cartography” and that in order to become a cartographer you had to be a whiz in mathematics. Knowing myself to be one of world’s worst math students on record I knew my dream of drawings maps for a living would never pan out.
Nevertheless, as my career evolved over the years into editorial cartooning I’ve been able to put my passion for maps to good use in satire. Here’s a gallery of map cartoons going back a few decades:
Toronto Megacity, 1996
November 6, 1997
April 1, 1999
February 9, 2000
December 16, 2000
September 8, 1999
May 16, 2002
June 20, 2002
October 23, 2002
May 30, 2003
September 28, 2004
May 9, 2006
August 2, 2006
March 1, 2007
August 2, 2007
March 31, 2008
August 15, 2008
September 25, 2008
Toronto 2010
February 22, 2011
September 3, 2011
November 8, 2011
April 26, 2012
May 15, 2012
August 22, 2012
December 2012
March 8, 2013
September 8, 2013
March 13, 2014
February 3, 2015
August 15, 2015
September 4, 2015
ACC – 2016
June 23, 2016
June 29, 2016
June 25, 2016
August 25, 2016
November 9, 2016
November 23, 2016
December 1, 2016
February 8 2017
February 23, 2017
March 30, 2017
April 26, 2017
August 11, 2017
October 20, 2017
June 13, 2018
July 24, 2018
December 13, 2018
April 29, 2019
May 11, 2019
December 16, 2019
April 15, 2020
April 18, 2020
May 14, 2020
June 10, 2020
July 14, 2020
September 1, 2020
September 25, 2020
November 24, 2020
October 10, 2020
February 17, 2021
March 11, 2021
