Gareth Lind

@garethlind.bsky.social

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My life’s creative passion is cartooning; I also love graphic design, which is my full-time gig. I draw funny animals and write biting satire.

A round table covered with about 40 CN snow
The Ontario government spends the least amount per capita on health care in the country. (Statistical graph showing that Ontario only spent $5309.98 per person in 2024, with higher amounts in every other province.) Doug Ford had six years to fix health care. Instead he’s wasting $2.2 billion of your money on a mega-spa for the rich. #DougFordFailed to Get It Done.
Tony (sitting beside Ontario Premier Mike Harris: Not so! With modern biotechnology, we can insert the genes of every councillor into a single plant—preserving the essence of democracy without the fleshy, inefficient squabbling! Mike: …and without the irritating tendency towards insubordination.
Tony "Cement" (actually Clement), Minister of Municicidal Affairs (holding a phone): Mel, you've got 24 hours to decide whether you wanna replace Toronto city council with a pea or a potato.
Ontario Premier Mike Harris (looking over a map of Ontario): How inefficient.
The producer, Frank and the women are looking at a screen, which shows a man jerking off. Producer: Oh no! Where is— iMac: 8…7… Woman: England, dammit! They've got a five-hour jump on us!
Frank (on a webpage at www.porntopia.com): Sure I have performance anxiety. The page has this text: I kiss you!!!!! Enter the hot and sexy new millineum (sic) with me – watch me cum at the stroke of midnite!!! Celebritate (sic) Y2K with Frank!!
Frank (surrounded by microphones): This orgasm will be the first ever to be precisely synchronized with the rollover of a millennium—and broadcast lie on the internet at www.porntopia.com. A truly momentous event!
Reporter: What are YOUR plans for Y2K’s eve? Gambler at a slot machine, eyes glazed: I'm betting on the millennium bug mistaking the three zeros for jackpot.
Horst and Celia are sitting in the Y2K Café. Horst: We’re more likely to be alive today than at any other point in history. Seven percent of all people ever born will be crammed into that golden Y2K moment. And you feel LUCKY?
Pages from a weekly, where this comic strip first appeared: • Mike Harris, Deadbeat Premier of the Year – pays no support to province • 10 Best Tunes for Cell Phone Ringers • 10 Most Under-rated Piercings • 10 Most Entertaining Wars on TV • Only 10 Shopping Days Left Till the End of the World – www. apocashop.com • 10 Lightest Rock Radio Station • 10 Least-Missed Extinct Species • 10 Worst “10-Best” Lists
Frank: The most over-hyped moment of … um … well, the millennium deserves to be commemorated with the most primal act possible. Horst: Donning silly hats? Frank: Sex.
Horst and Frank are having drinks in a bar. Frank: So – are you planning to join any apocalyptic mass suicide cults for New Year's?
A sunny winter scene: Snow-covered pine cones on evergreens mirror the deer tracks on a snowy slope, where there are also ski tracks. A fox, deep in snow, holds a sign that says, "Save winter."