These days my sketchbooks are largely filled with silly jokes and doodles—but there was a time when I used them more like a diary.
The first proper sketchbook I made was on my first trip to Canada, on a twelve-month student visa (a million years ago).
It’s the only book, of this kind, that I’ve ever given a title: Some Racoons are Alive, and Some Racoons are Dead. The diary is full of astute observations such as this.
Here’s a page from that sketchbook; the note at the bottom says “thinking too much.”
I was reminded of all this when tasked with illustrating a piece about Lesley Choyce’s new travel book, Around England with a Dog.
You can see my drawing below (from the March issue of the Literary Review of Canada).
Cartoons About Diaries
Here’s some more tomfoolery, from my sketchbook archives:
the diary joke is a good gag