We ran into each other again at Arnold Newman's New Yorker-cartoonist group-photograph shoot in September , 1997
In the ground-floor gallery space was the monthly drawing session of Dare2Draw, a cartoonists' networking group.
A vanity project of the musician Damon Albarn (of Blur) and the cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, the group has been a mild artistic success, a tremendous commercial one and an even bigger achievement as proof of the power of clever marketing, creating an imaginary market and then filling it.
Ron has been part of the cartooning community here for many years; he's dabbled in cartooning himself, and was involved in the cartoon group, Cartoonists Northwest, so he knew there was a rich assortment of stories to tell about this particular genre of artist.
When I was a cartoonist in New York, a group of friends and I would go out at weekends with a roll of 16mm film and make little skits.
Vancouver-based cartoonist Kathleen Gros joined the group last year.
Joining the group were cartoonist Bill Roundy, blogger Matt Kailey and Refuse author Elliott Deline.
A group of cartoonists used to frequent the place-Bud Fisher, F. Opper, Winsor McCay, and George McManus.
It's this singular issue that has spurred this group of cartoonists and artists to stop merely hating these national tragedies, but to stand up from our drawing boards and say, "Enough".
They are routinely jailed, kidnapped and threatened, says Bro Russell of Cartoonist Rights International, an advocacy group.
But now the Internet is giving a small group of political cartoonists a high-tech way to wage battle.
