Eric Dyck

@ericdyck.bsky.social

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Cartoonist & art educator in Lethbridge, AB. More work on http://patreon.com/ericdyck & http://ericdyck.com he/him

Eric’s drawing of himself looking annoyed with a little latch door swung open on his chest. Eric is holding a janky heart with a flap-valve exhaust pipe putt-putting smoke. A little update from Eric. Thank you to everyone who has sent well wishes as they have gotten the news that I am in the hospital. I am receiving excellent care and will update folks as we learn more about whatever is wrong with my ticker. I am stable and feeling good. Message of encouragement are welcome, but I will ask that folks not come to the hospital to visit at this time.
My attempts to click the link have resulted in a host error for nationalobserver.com which I’m confident in no way is related to them having receipts on Alberta voter data popping up south of the border.
Panel 1 Lil Eric runs away screaming “Momma Premier! Momma Premier!” While a smirking Lil David, holding a Jerry can, watches the orphanage burn. Panel 2 Lil Eric gestures wildly to Premier Smith, arms folded and leaning against a doorway, “Your shitty kid just set the orphanage on fire!” Ppanel 3 Lil Eric waits for a reaction but Smith just smiles creepily. Panel 4 Lil Eric says “Sorry, this is the part of the analogy where you demonstrate the actions you would have taken if the NDP, as you suggested, had told you about the Data Leak instead of the RCMP. Smith: “oh, I am.”
Front cover of The Edge of Space-time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. Old school penguin books cover with wonky Op-art graphic design.
A screen cap proving Eric has supported the That One Matt Bors Comic kickstarter.
Elbows up? Animated gif of Mark Carney’s noodley arms.
Blue & yellow illustration of Eric saying: Become a friend of the sloo on Patreon! Patreon.com/ericdyck
Eric’s black & white cartoon. A close up of a hand holding a card titled “Alberta Election Act Violations with 8 squares. Six of them have a skull stamp on them. The seventh is empty, and the eight has a fancy starburst around it featuring the words “free six inch sub”. Bottom line says “Member: David Parker (he/him)”.
AP - Cartooning and Comics for Youth (ages 13 - 17) An introduction to cartooning and sequential storytelling! Begin with basic drawing techniques and character design, building towards narrative development, acting, and shading. Learn to finish off your drawing with comic inking pens and build stories with panels. Get ready to share your comics with the world! Materials provided. DATE: May 13th, 2026 - June 17th, 2026 TIME: 6:30 pm casalethbridge.ca
Event announcement: This Saturday, May 2, 2026, Eric will be hosting a comics jam at the Lethbridge Public library fan fest from 12 PM to 3 PM! What is a comics jam? It is collaborative cartooning! Draw panel, and pass it on to the next person!
Black and white Comic by Eric Dyck Panel one super villain, Danielle Smith, wearing her trucknuts dictator hat, broods while a henchman peeks in the doorway. “Madame premier! I’m sorry, the globe and mail. They know it all“ Smith: “I see. And that they are wearing? “ Panel 2: Henchman: I’m sorry ma’am. They know about those too.” Smith:“who was it? Her again? “ Panel three: Henchman: “yes. Carrie Tait, ma’am. “ Panel four: Wider look at smith in her villain chair, looking at her giant tank of sharks wearing laser beams on their heads, ripping up the Alberta Health Care Insurance Act.
Panel 1 A happy and optimistic 11 year old Danielle Smith wearing her Atlas Shrugged tee shirt. Someone says: “Hey Kids!” Panel 2 Kids are gathered around the ice cream truck, while the ice cream man holds out a cone: “To celebrate the first day of summer, I’m going to give away a free ice cream cone! Panel 3 Little Danielle reaches up as the ice cream man hands down a cone, seemingly to her. Panel 4 Shock and horror flash across Danielle’s face as the man hands the ice cream cone to someone else reaching up. A little voice says “thanks mister!” Panel 5 A bewildered Danielle looks over to see some kid in a wheelchair eating the free ice cream cone. Panel 6 Danielle is handed an ice cream cone as her eyes flash and her face flushes with hatred. “Hey kid, here’s yours!” Panel 7 Danielle is consumed by rage and seething hatred as the ice cream man asks for his 25 cents. Her eyes twitch as she hands over her quarter. Panel 8 “44 YEARS LATER” Premier Danielle Smith, in her blazer & truck nuts necklace, her face a mask of ancient loathing, says, “[children], you can earn your way into inclusion, but you can earn your way out of it too."
Panel from Eric comic in 2025. Danielle smith on Fox News with chyron, “Canadian provincial leader crosses border.” Smith smiling in a stars n stripes blazer, says “we have a president here who shares the same conservative values that we do…”
Eric’s black and white cartoon of a face-less Jason Kenney writing “Why The Face-eating Leopards Are Wrong by Jason Kenney”
Eric’s black and white comic strip, slough comics. Panel one Government of Alberta‘s minister of Public Safety, Mike Ellis, stands beside a curtain. He kind of looks like if John Carradine was a men’s rights activist who is three years behind on child support payments. “ a lot of you are upset at my incredibly cruel and uninformed comments that people with addictions, love it when the drugs are contaminated, maiming and killing their loved ones. Panel two Mike Ellis shrugs smugly, “ And sure! You’re right! I don’t know anything about addiction” Panel three Becomes more obvious that Mike Ellis is wearing a sports jersey. “ I don’t know what it’s like to be so mentally, emotionally, and physiologically, overwhelmed by a self-destructive craving that you abandon your values, making decisions that ruin yourself and hurt those around you-“ A voice from behind him: “sir?” Ellis, reaching up, “oh, thanks.” Panel four We now see that Ellis is sitting in the Edmonton Oilers luxury box draped in fabric with a dollar-sign pattern accredited to Sam Mraiche. Smith is sitting to his rate in an Oilers jersey with a bejewelled cat statuette in her lap. On Ellis’s left is Neudorf in an Oilers jersey wearing a ball cap that says” Sam Mraiche bought me this hat, probably.” a snooty looking butler carries a tray of cocktail drinks. Grabbing one of the drinks, Mike Ellis says. “ anyways, so yeah: excuse me for not being a craven degenerate costing taxpayers a fortune with my terrible life choices.”
Eric’s cartoon head says “Become a Friend of the Slough on Patreon! Patreon dot com slash Eric Dyck
Eric’s black & white one panel cartoon: Caption: Alberta likely violating treat obligations by charging Indigenous people for covid vaccine. Guilty looking Danielle Smith is holding a cut-up blanket & scissors behind her back. “Oh, wow. Everyone just calm down. The way you were all reacting, you’d think we were distributing pieces of blankets I personally infected with Covid or something. Just another example of dangerous rhetoric. I’ve come to expect from those on the left.”
Eric’s map of choice cuts of Alberta map. Northern bit is chuck & brisket. Central Alberta is the loin and Rockies/foothills are the flank. I live in the rump!
Arlo, née Neil Sedaka, a red & white retired greyhound on his fuzzy bed with his four legs perplexingly entwined.
Eric’s design for a Put On Your Best Jean Jacket pin-button yellow text on blue denim texture.
Eric’s black and white one panel cartoon. Daniel Smith, wearing a Team USA hockey jersey with the number 5, is at a podium with a handful of notes. Podium says Neighbour Schmeighbour. Header says: Premier Smith lays out the case for her new racist nonsense. Smith, looking over her reading glasses:” if you need proof that immigrants are all sleazy and scheming opportunists, you need only look at this (Smith deliberately mispronounces Sam Mraiche’s name phonetically) guy I just learned about! Do you have any idea how much it cost to dispose of all that bleeping Tylenol??
Eric’s black and white one panel cartoon. Daniel Smith, wearing a Team USA hockey jersey with the number 5, is at a podium with a handful of notes. Podium says Neighbour Schmeighbour. Header says: Premier Smith lays out the case for her new racist nonsense. Smith, looking over her reading glasses:” if you need proof that immigrants are all sleazy and scheming opportunists, you need only look at this (Smith deliberately mispronounces Sam Mraiche’s name phonetically) guy I just learned about! Do you have any idea how much it cost to dispose of all that bleeping Tylenol??
Bell says “Our most important advice: If you have never finished a comic before: Make a comic less than 30 pages before starting a large one. I literally cannot stress this enough.”
Garth Williams’ Mr Dog
Eric’s black and white comic Panel one A smirking Danielle Smith is digging with a shovel, “Remember when I was first campaigning to be Premier of Alberta and I was all vaccine freedom means if you want it: get it, and if not: don’t? Seems like a long time ago, eh? Ha ha” Panel two Smith has a lump of dirt balanced on her shovel: "Its pretty wild that we find out Alberta is on track to set a flu deaths record in the same week that we learn…” Panel three Smith holding empty shovel, “…the APP’s Dennis Modry claims that I confirmed to him that I’d prefer the title of Prime Minister of a separated Alberta! There’s even a recording of his claim!” Panel four We move further away to see Smith dig into ground with shovel. She has been digging a grave. Behind her is a casket. In front of her are a number of other filled in graves marked with crosses. “My only regret is that these one hundred and ninety-seven Albertans died before they could find out the truth about whether I prefer Prime Minister of Alberta or President of Alberta."
First comic panel: Pierre Poilievre in western attire, wearing a campaign button that says "Just Write In PP", says "Hello, it's me, Pierre Poilievre. I've got a message for all you folks in the riding of Battle River-Crowfoot. Panel two PP, looking at the no-service alert on his smartphone, says "Even though my family and I left the place we called home unexpectedly, fleeing ideological persecution to this safe space, seeking employment and top-tier healthcare, this small and close-knit community has welcomed us into their homes with compassion and understanding." Panel three PP, looking incredulous: "I mean, wow! I literally came to this community with the expressed intent to take the job of someone who has lived here his whole life and is clearly better qualified to do this job, and I am the leading candidate for the position and it's not even close! And you are paying for me to do it!" Panel four PP narrows his eyes: "Thank you to the people of Battle River-Crowfoot. Let's wrap this up and get down to the important work in Canada together: Doing something about all these resource-draining and entitled immigrants."
Eric’s cartoon Panel 1 Prime Minister Carney, prancing up the steps to the podium with a big smile and noodle arms, with the words noodley noodley trailing behind him. Panel 2 Prime Minister, Kearney, at the podium, very serious face. “To name reality to build our strength at home to act together That is Canada‘s path. Our elbows are up. Our elbows are strong.” Panel 3 Prime Minister Carney, prancing down the steps from the podium with a big smile and noodle arms, with the words noodley noodley trailing behind him.
Page four of Calgary Herald, May 6, 1986.
Tom Innes cartoon for Calgary herald, 1980. Black and white drawing with a gnarly rat labelled "separatism" crawling a rope to board a boat named "Alberta" with Peter Lougheed looking on with concern.
Eric’s black and white cartoon of Alberta premier, Danielle Smith, in handcuffs, blackout visor, and headphones, being extradited on a military plane, cheerfully saying, “What I asked the President was, do you want to buy more oil and gas from Canada? And boys, let me tell you, he said YES! So, yeah, I’d say we are on pretty good terms. Fellas? Are you still there?”
Quietly humble cameo from Jim Henson at the end of 1987’s Muppet Family Christmas. Henson passed away just a few years later.
Eric’s Black and white cartoon of Hippy Danielle Smith, wearing a “There is no pipeline ‘B’ button, says “Albertans are proud Canadians that want this nation to be strong, prosperous and united, but we will no longer tolerate having our energy industry threatened while Ottawa drags its feet on meaningful actions to combat climate change.” Holds up a Save The Wells protest sign.
Eric‘s baseless conspiracy theory is that the courtship of Poilievre ‘S wife was totally normal and he made up the creepy, senior-employee-talking-junior-employee story just to impress his base. Cartoon drawing: 2012 A pleasant looking Pierre Poilievre kindly asks “ Would you like to go out for a coffee sometime?” His future wife, answers, happily: “ sure thanks for asking like not a creepy weirdo”
Close up photo of Tillie the retired greyhound’s mischievous snoot. She is black with a graying muzzle.
Two panels clipped from Eric’s black-and-white comic 1.Generalissimo Dani, holding a cattle prod with sparks and with a very serious expression on her face, says “ I can assure you, those memories of such a vicious, hatred, and intolerance, directed at me, or fresh in my mind.” Her dictator hat has truck nuts instead of a badge. 2. Danielle Smith, suddenly brightens up and is exaggeratedly waving raw meat over a pit of snarling, snapping monsters who are muttering censored slurs and “Alberta First”and “freedom”. Smith says, “ that is why I’m going to be extra careful as I agitate the very same people this time!”
Black and white Comic by Eric Dyck Panel one super villain, Danielle Smith, wearing her trucknuts dictator hat, broods while a henchman peeks in the doorway. “Madame premier! I’m sorry, the globe and mail. They know it all“ Smith: “I see. And that they are wearing? “ Panel 2: Henchman: I’m sorry ma’am. They know about those too.” Smith:“who was it? Her again? “ Panel three: Henchman: “yes. Carrie Tait, ma’am. “ Panel four: Wider look at smith in her villain chair, looking at her giant tank of sharks wearing laser beams on their heads, ripping up the Alberta Health Care Insurance Act.
Cropped Eric cartoon of Poilievre in a tux and monocle looking smug, saying “ lift yourself up by your bootstraps, and you can qualify for a full government pension at 31 years old too!”
Vintage comics panel: Giant alien that looks like a toad crossed with a corgi burst through door “Earthling we want you!” And 1960s white dad in armchair says “oh happy day!”
Photo of 1956 “I go pogo” Pogo Possum for President pin-button
Eric tee on Redbubble: black tee with white lettering “Forest Fire Vaccines Cause Sex Marxism”
Screenshot of article “with Prime Minister Mark Carney while Mr. Poilievre was relegated to press conferences in the foyer.”
A photo of Lethbridge Bulls losing badly.
Animated Elbows Up gif of Carney’s noodle arms.
First comic panel: Pierre Poilievre in western attire, wearing a campaign button that says "Just Write In PP", says "Hello, it's me, Pierre Poilievre. I've got a message for all you folks in the riding of Battle River-Crowfoot. Panel two PP, looking at the no-service alert on his smartphone, says "Even though my family and I left the place we called home unexpectedly, fleeing ideological persecution to this safe space, seeking employment and top-tier healthcare, this small and close-knit community has welcomed us into their homes with compassion and understanding." Panel three PP, looking incredulous: "I mean, wow! I literally came to this community with the expressed intent to take the job of someone who has lived here his whole life and is clearly better qualified to do this job, and I am the leading candidate for the position and it's not even close! And you are paying for me to do it!" Panel four PP narrows his eyes: "Thank you to the people of Battle River-Crowfoot. Let's wrap this up and get down to the important work in Canada together: Doing something about all these resource-draining and entitled immigrants."
Screenshot of citation-less quote by Andre the Giant disparaging Hulk Hogan.
Cartoon alberta keels over and becomes an RIP Alberta logo on Danielle Smith’s podium with caption, “You chuckleheads”.
Mark Carney’s arms are too wiggly for elbows up.
TMBG high fives from Divya Srinivasan
Panel one it’s time we had to talk about these so-called children’s activities in Alberta . Panel 2 Calgary stampede: a picture of a guy in cowboy duds with a checkmark beside harmless dress up. Drag storytime at the library: a royal queen, a checkmark beside harmless dress up. Panel 3 Calgary stampede: bunch of folks yelling “yahoo”, checkmark beside exuberant expressions of enthusiasm Drag story time at the library: a bunch of drag queen‘s yell “SLAAAYYY”, checkmark beside exuberant expressions of enthusiasm Panel 4 Calgary stampede: bunch of injured people throwing up all over the emergency waiting room, checkmark beside increased ER visits. Drag story time at the library: a drag queen rolls her eyes and says “well I did get a paper card once”, big red X beside increased ER visits. Panel 5 Calgary stampede: Creepy cowboy lawyer says “some Calgary law firm A stampede harassment page on their website. “, Checkmark beside increase in sexual assault, harassment, and domestic violence. Drag story time at the library: drag queen says “Nope, all tea no shade, sashay away”, big red x beside increase in sexual assault, harassment, and domestic violence. Panel 6 Calgary Stampede: checkmark beside a real child exploitation and grooming scandal. Shows paperwork for Young Calgarians lawsuit. Drag story time at the library : Jenn X looks incredulous, “And you’re all protesting US??”, big red X beside real child exploitation and grooming scandal.
Donald Trump’s little birthday parade but it’s the tragic Willy Wonka Oompa Loompa from that funny thing that everyone has probably forgotten about already.
Donald Trump’s little birthday parade but it’s the tragic Willy Wonka Oompa Loompa from that funny thing that everyone has probably forgotten about already.
Clare Blackwood’s cat wearing a hat.
Betty Boop when she was still a cartoon dog. PS—congratulations, Boum!!!
Breaking News! Alberta Oil Threatened As Wildfires Ravage Province! Danielle Smith wearing flowers and a tie-dye shirt with a Climate Justice sandwich board, a “There Is No Pipeline B” button, an Enbridge logo medallion, holding a “Save the Wells” protest sign, says “Albertans are proud Canadians that want this nation to be strong, prosperous and united, but we will no longer tolerate having our energy industry threatened while Ottawa drags its feet on meaningful actions to combat climate change.”
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Panel 1 Danielle Smith at the podium: “I'm getting a lot of questions from folks about ‘Why do you care so much about Alberta separation when you spend every day imagining you'd stuck to your plan and moved to your Libertarian compound in Panama in 2022?’" Panel 2 Smith’s blazer suddenly had a tropical pattern. Panel 3 Smith is suddenly wearing big sunglasses. Journalists: “Um…?” Panel 4 Journalists: “…And?” Smith now has a tropical drink and big floppy Sun hat. Sings to herself “if you like Pina coladas…”
Cartoon Eric invites you to sign up for this weekend’s Procreate app workshop!
Eric Dyck drawing of Poilievre saying “Oh yeah, real fair that the people who live near me and interact with me every day get to vote too.”
Election day colouring page
Poilievre secrets Panel One Why won’t Poilievre submit to a background check? Some totally plausible theories: Poilievre is secretly the top Taylor Swift listener on Spotify. Poilievre is hiding in bathroom with earbuds while wife bangs on door “Honey what are you doing in there” Panel Two His precious reclaimed wood was really a Kirkland brand DIY rustic cabin kit Poilievre fondles a verticals Costco box, soothingly whispering to it “the beam was always in the log, oh baby…” Panel three It’s actually Poilievre who is Fidel Castro’s secret love child (a reference to the Trudeau conspiracy theory). Poilievre longingly gazes at photo of Castro with “To Jeffy, Love Dad” written on it. Panel Four The courtship of his wife was totally normal and he made up the creepy senior-employee-stalking-the-junior-employee story just to impress his base. Poilievre says “Hello, would you like to go for a coffee sometime” and Anaida smiles and replies “Sure, thanks for asking like not a total creepy weirdo.” I’m going to make you google that story yourself. Eww.