As I’ve been posting, the cartoon Drabble family has been on vacation this week in Niagara Falls. I contacted the artist, Kevin Fagan, and asked him a few questions (had he ever been to the falls? why did they come to Niagara Falls? where else might they go?, etc). Below is his response: I live…
Today the Drabbles are leaving Niagara Falls and crossing at the border. Norm reacts the way many people react. See a larger version of the comic at http://www.comics.com/comics/drabble/archive/drabble-20050819.html
From Yahoo! News: The Canadian tourism industry coalition expressed concern that new rules requiring Americans to obtain passports before traveling abroad will significantly reduce northbound travel out of the United States. “The publicity surrounding the new passport requirements is already having a deterrent effect on cross-border travel,” Randy Williams, president of the Tourism Industry Association…
Today the Drabbles are trying to sleep in a fallsview room. Unfortunately Mrs. Drabble is having a hard time sleeping because the Falls are so loud. You know, you’d be surprised at the number of people who think they can turn the Falls off and on at will! See a larger version of the comic…
From The Globe and Mail: Ontario Power Generation has granted a contract to an Austrian company to build a new 10.4-kilometre-long tunnel to increase electricity generation from the Niagara River, it announced Thursday. The announcement comes during a time that Ontario is struggling to meet its energy needs as it shuts down its coal-fired plants….
All it needs now is an actual image… Or maybe it’s a Home Depot billboard trying to get us to buy wood?
I know, I know… I keep posting about this place… but it looks like it’s almost done.
All along Queen Victoria Park are beautiful gardens. Today I took this picture of a butterfly and a bee on a sedum plant.
The billboard we mentioned previously has made it a step further: This is at the corner of Stanley and Robinson, right across the street from three Skylon Tower billboards.
Today the Drabbles are on the Maid of the Mist. See a larger version of the comic at http://www.comics.com/comics/drabble/archive/drabble-20050817.html