About Time, Too!

“One is New Year related, another is time related (so sort of New Year related); the other three are all over the damn place.”—Mark Addison Kershaw

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By Mark Addison Kershaw

“Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light. … We all know that, as the old adage has it, ‘It is later than you think.’ … but I also say occasionally: ‘It is lighter than you think.’ In this light let’s not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”—James Thurber, from Lanterns & Lances (1961)

ATLANTA Georgia—(Weekly Hubris)—January 2020—Editor’s Note: When I asked Mark, aka Addison, if he had any New Year’s cartoons for us (yes, editors ask crass things like that of their artistes), he replied: “One is New Year related, another is time related (so sort of New Year related); the other three are all over the damn place.” And that response, from Weekly Hubris’s cartoonist-cum-philosopher-not-in-residence, comprises about as many words as I ever get out of him at one time. Addison draws, takes pictures (of non-verbal, local fauna), and stoops, upon occasion, to a caption. But he is a man of many panels, if few words. We are happy, here at Weekly Hubris, to have had him round and about for a year, now, and look forward to sharing more of his peculiar and addictive take on life. I find Addison as poignant and prescient as James Thurber, one of his admitted influences, but he is Thurber pulled, blushing and gesticulating, into the 21^st century. I know I speak for us all when I say, “All right, have it your way—you heard a seal bark!”