mackaycartoons

Graeme MacKay's Editorial Cartoon Archive

  • Archives
  • Kings & Queens
  • Prime Ministers
  • Sharing
  • Special Features
  • The Boutique
  • Who?
  • Presidents

Farley Mowat

Graeme’s Gallery 2014: Canada

December 30, 2014 by Graeme MacKay

Oh great, another year in review…Graeme Gallery 2014 - Canada

November 8, 2014
November 8, 2014
Saturday November 1, 2014
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Tuesday October 7, 2014
Wednesday August 13, 2014
Thursday April 24, 2014
April 23, 2014
April 23, 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Tuesday, April 2, 2014
Friday, March 21, 2014
Thursday October 24, 2014
October 2, 2014
October 2, 2014
Saturday September 27, 2014
September 23, 2014
September 23, 2014
Wednesday September 10, 2014
Wednesday September 3, 2014
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Saturday April 26, 2014
March 13, 2014
March 13, 2014

And that ends this years Graeme Galleries. Links to the whole series:

 

Graeme Gallery 2014 - HamiltonGraeme Gallery 2014 - World, InternationalGraeme Gallery 2014 - Ontario

Posted in: Canada Tagged: Air Canada, Canada, Farley Mowat, Jian Ghomeshi, Jim Flaherty, Justin Trudeau, natives, Quebec, Rob Ford, Stephen Harper, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Mulcair, year-end review

Thursday, May 8, 2014

May 8, 2014 by Graeme MacKay

Thursday, May 8, 2014By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday, May 8, 2014

Death of an Original Hipster

Farley Mowat, one of Canada’s best-known authors and a noted environmentalist, has died at age 92.

Mary Shaw-Rimmington, the author’s assistant, confirmed his passing to CBC News on Wednesday afternoon. Mowat died at his home in Port Hope, Ont.

Mowat, author of dozens of works including Lost in the Barrens and Never Cry Wolf, introduced Canada to readers around the world and shared everything from his time abroad during the Second World War, to his travels in the North and his concern for the deteriorating environment.

Pierre Berton 1920-2004

More than 17 million copies of his books, which have been translated into dozens of languages, have been sold worldwide. The gregarious writer was a consummate storyteller, whose works spanned non-fiction, children’s titles and memoirs.

Describing Mowat as “a passionate Canadian,” Prime Minster Stephen Harper touted the writer as “a natural storyteller with a real gift for sharing personal anecdotes in a witty and endearing way.” (Source: CBC News)

Meanwhile, we may have reached “peak beard frequency,” according to research published in the journal Biology Letters recently.

Men’s facial hair trends may be guided by Darwinian selection, researchers hypothesized. So they asked women and men to rate different faces with “four standard levels of beardedness.” The faces that were rarer were rated as more appealing. It’s an evolutionary phenomenon known as “negative frequency-dependent sexual selection.”

“The idea is that perhaps people start copying the George Clooneys and the Joaquin Phoenixs and start wearing those beards, but then when more and more people get onto the bandwagon the value of being on the bandwagon diminishes, so that might be why we’ve hit ‘peak beard’,” study author Prof Rob Brooks told the BBC.

“Peak beard” is reached when the most men in professions not usually associated with facial hear sport beards. The BBC suggests that may have happened in January when a Newsnight

Some say the Rubicon was crossed in January when Jeremy Paxman, the BBC Newsnight presenter, shaved his beard off, saying “beards are SO 2013.”

When “peak beard” frequency is reached, the pendulum swings back toward lesser-bristled chins — a trend we may be witnessing now, the scientists say. (Source: Discovery.com)

SOCIAL MEDIA

#RIP #FarleyMowat The original hipster http://t.co/1jDhLZC3Ow pic.twitter.com/O9PzOMl35A

— mackaycartoons (@mackaycartoons) May 8, 2014


REPUBLISHED in the Edmonton Journal, the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, and Yahoo News Canada. 

Posted in: Canada Tagged: author, beards, Canada, Editorial Cartoon, environment, Farley Mowat, hipster, literature, obituary, Yahoo

Click on dates to expand

Please note…

This website contains satirical commentaries of current events going back several decades. Some readers may not share this sense of humour nor the opinions expressed by the artist. To understand editorial cartoons it is important to understand their effectiveness as a counterweight to power. It is presumed readers approach satire with a broad minded foundation and healthy knowledge of objective facts of the subjects depicted.

Social Media Connections

Link to our Facebook Page
Link to our Flickr Page
Link to our Pinterest Page
Link to our Twitter Page
Link to our Website Page
  • HOME
  • Sharing
  • The Boutique
  • The Hamilton Spectator
  • Artizans Syndicate
  • Association of Canadian Cartoonists
  • Wes Tyrell
  • Martin Rowson
  • Guy Bado’s Blog
  • You Might be From Hamilton if…
  • MacKay’s Most Viral Cartoon
  • Intellectual Property Thief Donkeys
  • National Newswatch
  • Young Doug Ford

MacKay’s Virtual Gallery

Brand New Designs!

Your one-stop-MacKay-shop…

T-shirts, hoodies, clocks, duvet covers, mugs, stickers, notebooks, smart phone cases and scarfs

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets
Follow Graeme's board My Own Cartoon Favourites on Pinterest.

Archives

Copyright © 2016 mackaycartoons.net

Powered by Wordpess and Alpha.

 

Loading Comments...