I’m fond of paper, as a technology, and as aesthetic object. Apple, with it’s perpetual cycle of surface-level re-invention (Colour! Smaller! Bigger! Thinner!) is one of the western world’s worst offenders in the realm of expensive, wasteful, proprietary disposable gadgetry, which is partly why I single them out.

There’s more (and more toxic) clutter than ever– why continue to use your now-obsolete mobile phone once the 3-year contract expires? I can still post a letter (or a small comic) for less than $1, and it can be buried in compost when it arrives.

But as is far more refined waste and factory activity goes into even the smallest of electric doodads than the daily mail. On top of it if you consider a few google searched = driving a car round the block in collective power usages by all the servers and networks involved, the serious problem with E-waste, here and more so in developing countries, the mixed blessing of social impacts we’ve taken on with our obsession with 24/7 connectivity and really, the argument that it’s better for us falls apart.

I’ll be publishing my work digitally and looking forward to a lot of aspects of that, but when it comes to social and ecological aspects, we’ve made more work for ourselves this way, not less. And so it goes.

The second thing is this; North American culture is carefully cultivated to be obsessed with the new thing; the new star, the new toy, the new scandal. And then, after the shine has gone off and the thing has gone away, the Wes Andersons can come back to it in fifteen years and proclaim how they’ve always loved it (unless that position is uncool, then it is loved ‘ironically’).

So, to summarize: I love that drawing.