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Monthly Archives: December 2011

Christmas and beyond…

Tobacco and Mental Illness Project

Health SA’s Tobacco and Mental Illness Project has produced many resources for people with a mental illness – who are more likely to smoke, and smoke more heavily than the general population. For example a study has reported that 60% of people with schizophrenia smoke.

More information and links to some of the resources can be found at: http://www.quitsa.org.au/aspx/mental_health.aspx

and details of the Project at:

http://www.quitsa.org.au/aspx/quit_sa_programs.aspx#6

The resources have used cartoons and graphics to help explain the project’s aims of awareness, practice change and reduction. Cartoons can (I hope!) connect with a reader, empathise, and help them through the text.

Here are some examples.

 

 

 

Stages of Change

School for Social Entrepreneurs

The Melbourne branch of the School for Social Entrepreneurs  http://www.sse.org.au/  had the evaluation of their 2011 program on November 24th. The 16 participants reflected and shared significant stories with the help of a History Trip Activity.

I was there to illustrate some of the stories in cartoons.

The photographs show the History Trip spreading across the wall, along with stories, notes, jottings and cartoons – a visualisation of the participants’ 2011 experiences.

Below are a few of the cartoons.

 

Konigsberg Bridge Puzzle 2

Unfortunately there isn’t a solution to the Konigsberg Bridge Puzzle. Such is life, there isn’t  always a neat resolution, or one right answer.

Andrew Rixon of Babelfish Group  http://www.babelfishgroup.com got me to draw the puzzle for a section of his book Complex Systems: thriving in complexity.

So, if you could cope with having the puzzle in your head for  a few hours (or a couple of days in my case) and eventually realising that there was no solution, well, maybe we all are better prepared for other stuff that doesn’t resolve itself neatly. Or maybe not….

Why people keep fish in aquariums QED

 

What shall we eat?

Independence Educational Publishers, based in Cambridge, publish resource books on social issues for students. Cartoons are a feature of each issue – usually 15-16 in each book. Three of the four regular cartoonists are Australian: Bev Aisbett, Don Hatcher and me. What does that say?

The Independence website is: http://www.independence.co.uk/

Here are three of my cartoons for the recent Vegetarianism issue.