I was making a mostly futile effort to organise my files and came across this cartoon I did for Oslo Davis’ excellent Drawn From Life magazine from the Melbourne Writers’ Festival.
The brief was to do something about your own life, which is marvellously self-indulgent but quite hard to do when you’re tuned into being nasty to politicians day in and day out. Anyway, I agonised over it til just after the deadline and ended up knocking out A Tale Of Two Hospitals about a rather fraught period in my life neatly summed up by a fortune cookie.
Bear with it, I attempted to cram a lot into a fairly small space and it has a non-family-newspaper-friendly word in it, but it’s got a happy ending (click on it for a bigger version).
That’s a really touching cartoon Jon. I hope you have a great big print of that on a wall at home to remember what that fortune cookie told you
Just lovely.
Big smiles on the 531 Simei to Shenton Way bus today. Many thanks. Award winning stuff.
This is beautiful. You encapsulate perfectly the beginning and (almost) end of life. A comfort for all of us going through either hospital experience.