The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg is a famous puzzle. Here is a representation of the situation (without having to draw all of 1700s Konigsberg).
Is it possible to walk around, crossing each bridge – but only once?
The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg puzzle
The GFC and Management … here are some cheap shots …
Free Run Press, South Australian publishing house, produces a range of publications.
http://www.freerunpress.com.au/
One of their magazines, SA Kids (formerly South Kids), launched in 2010, provides parents with practical, up to date, local information about raising children. An ongoing series by John Kruger reports on the highs and lows of being a parent, through the growth of baby Stone. Like the magazine, Stone had his first birthday recently…
Stone's first birthday party
Not quite the Oscars but with a much bigger budget …
Cartoon from the latest issue of New Internationalist – link at the bottom of this page.
Most people have had a back-at-school bad dream. I’m sure it’s good therapy to work through it, write it down, reconstruct the story, deconstruct the story and see what the entrails can tell you.
My bad school dream seemed to focus on Mr Perkins’ French class …
School Doze 1999
… unfairly, as you see, he was doing his best for us.
Some of my first cartooning jobs were for publications about ‘disability’ rights, in the lead up to the International Year of Disabled Persons (it would be worded better these days). It was an important learning experience for me. One publication from that time was Into the Streets:
Disability Resources Centre Vic, 1981
The MS Society has a number of ongoing campaigns on a range of issues. Here are cartoons illustrating some aspects. How far have things come since the International Year …?
The 88th and final issue of The Rationalist, journal of the Rationalist Society of Australia, has been published.
The Rationalist has used a number of cartoonists in each issue so, for cartoonists, this is one less opportunity to demonstrate our craft.
Editors are moving on and the cost of publication has gone beyond the financial capacity of the Society. The Society will continue publishing in other ways and on its website.
The 88th Rationalist can be found in news agents; pdfs of earlier issues, and more information on the Society at www.rationalist.com.au
One issue that the Rationalist Society has been strong on has been the Constitutional legality of the Government’s school chaplains program. Here is the cover of the 87th issue:
Here is a cartoon from the last issue, illustrating the article ‘Inside the great Fairfax fiasco’.
Esool Gnah is a character that emerged in a group story in one of Andrew Rixon’s (Babelfishgroup) Fairy Tale Workshops. The story of Esool Gnah can be found in Andrew’s Opening Up: Creative Storying at Work.
Esool was a shepherd who wanted to develop leadership skills among his sheep. Despite working on his own facilitation skills he found it frustrating work …. you’ll have to read the story but a clue to how Esool Gnah learned – after some reflection – to live happily ever after lies in his name.
Esool Gnah inspired a number of full page comic strips, here are a couple of his adventures ….
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 