by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 14, 2024 | Cartoon, Children, Collaboration, Conceptual Craft, Craft, Craftivism, Creative Process, Embroidery, Hand Stitching, Inspiration, Kids Art, Monster, Narrative, Needlework, Patriarchy, Personalispolitical, Process
I’m betting its bite will be worse than its bark Lately I’ve been asking anyone I come across: Is it just me or are we all sort of in a calm-before-the-storm, high-alert mode? So far, the score is 100-per-cent ‘Yes.’ Although in retrospect those affirmatives...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 25, 2024 | Activism, Anxiety, Art Activism, Bob Krieger, Cartoon, Craftivism, Creative Process, Embroidery, Feminisim, Feminist Art, Fiber Arts, Grief, Hand Stitching, Mental Health, Political Art, Political Satire, Pussy Hat, Resistance, Social Art, Trump, Women's March
From rolling your eyes to sinking in sawdust​Like a dream it was: A half-a-million-strong pink procession on Washington, a sea of singing, shouting, laughing people, surging forward in the shared pursuit of basic human rights, in their hometowns and around the world....
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 9, 2015 | Art Discourse, Banksy, Bob Krieger, Cartoon, Critique, Drawing, Editorial, Media, Newspapers, Protest, Social Engagement, Social Justice, Social Media
I’m writing this as the radio airs a live report of gunfire. The French police have just killed the two brothers who hunted down particular editorial workers at the satirical Paris magazine two days ago, murdering 12.A bloodbath over hand-drawn images is over...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 24, 2014 | Bob Krieger, Bruce MacKinnon, Cartoon, Drawing, Editorial, Media, Newspapers, Social Media
It was a day of horror that has changed the climate at the centre of the Canadian hive forever.And it took an artist to channel our collective grief. Cartoon from thechronicleherald.ca Veteran editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon’s one-panel image that ran in...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 13, 2014 | Art, Cartoon, Creative Process, Draw Down, Drawing, Expression, Ideas, Mural, Playing, Social Engagement, Vancouver
Remember when you were a kid you knew you could give a drawing as a present to any adult and that adult would love it, even though you would definitely not like a drawing-present yourself?It’s one of those things that separates the kids from the adults. You know...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 21, 2013 | Bob Krieger, Cartoon, Expression, Journalism
You might have heard the hammering this week of the final nail in the coffin of a well-known cartoonist’s career with the Province newspaper. After more than 30 years, Bob Krieger joined the legions of other Vancouver Sun and Province reporters who took the...
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