I just got back yesterday from this year's combined convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and the Association of Canadian Cartoonists.
It was a good meeting, aside from getting lost on the first day walking from the hotel to the Musée McCord-Stewart Museum because I read the map upside-down. I did stumble upon the gay district of Rue Ste. Catherine; by then, I was relying on Google Maps to get me headed back in the right direction. But because Google Maps thought I was driving, the app kept insisting that I turn off in the wrong direction just to get off the pedestrian mall.
It didn't like me walking against traffic on one-way streets, either, repeatedly demanding that I turn right and right two more times even though my destination was ahead and to the left.
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| Detail from "Some of the Strange Gods Worshipped in Johnny Canuck's Temple of Fame" by Charles W. Jefferies in The Moon, Montréal, Aug. 9, 1902 |
Well, I'm sure that I will find something else to say about the convention, if only to post a review of the book I bought at the Musée once I've finished reading it.
And to thank Christian Vachon, curator of the Musée and 1er recipient of the ACC's Golden Gable Award, for sending a link to the McClord-Stewart and further information about Saturday's Graphical History Tour subject, Arthur G. Racey. (Did you know that it was a Canadian who, Vachon convincingly argues, invented the cartoon characterization of Uncle Sam?)
My trip home started with a red-eye flight from Montréal to Toronto, so by the time I renewed acquaintance with my better half, unpacked, had an overdue meal, and sat down at my drawing board, I was falling asleep.
Come back in a few days to see what a mess I made of this week's cartoon.
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