A new Curious Calgary Zine

I wrote some comics for The Sprawl. This one's about streetlights!

I write comics for The Sprawl, a Calgary-based independent journalism outlet, and we’ve been making some zines. These little comics fit on a single 8.5x11” page that you can download from the Sprawl website, print and fold into a paper zine of your own! Or, you can read the comic here (keep scrolling).

It’s the third in a series - the previous ones were about Calgary tunnels and Calgary abandoned buildings. This new one is about… streetlights!

Why? My 14-year-old son is pretty interested in local streetlights. He’s even made an interactive map on his website, where he’s listed a lot of the rare and historic streetlights in town.

This actually isn’t the first time I’ve written about streetlights in a Sprawl comic. I mentioned them in this online Hallowe’en comic from back in 2020 (you can read the whole thing here on the Sprawl website):

But now, here’s the new zine!

If this got you interested in learning more about streetlights, check out the Streetlight Tutorial Page on my son’s website!!

And I must have streetlights on my mind this week… here’s a sketch from a walk with my younger son’s school class yesterday. This sketch is part of some other recent comics that I’ll be posting here, very soon!