Tag: Making Of Rat Park



My Drug Period

May 29th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , | Posted in Cartoon | 9 Comments »

Cartoon Milton Friedman War on Drugs

By ‘drug period’, I refer to the 12 months I spent researching, writing and drawing War on Drugs and Rat Park. This blog post discusses everything I think and feel about drugs as a result of this research.

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Globalization of Addiction: the post-Rat Park research of Bruce Alexander

May 29th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , | Posted in Cartoon | 8 Comments »

Cartoon Bruce Alexander from Rat Park

The ‘main character’ of my comic Rat Park is Professor Bruce Alexander – a real life psychologist from Vancouver. This blog post describes Bruce’s post-Rat Park research, including his book The Globalization of Addiction. If you liked my comic, you will love his book.

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A bustle in the cage-row: the making of Rat Park

May 29th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , | Posted in Cartoon | 8 Comments »

Caged rat water dispenser. Low angle photo.

This is a lengthy blog post about the behind-the-scene ‘making of’ Rat Park. Includes historical photographs of the actual Rat Park experiment from the 1970s, and interesting tidbits which I couldn’t quite fit into my comic.

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