After A Hard Day Of Making Comics, Have A Gren

The son of the late cartoonist Grenfell Jones, known over his long career by the shortened pen-name "Gren," has crafted a beer in his father's honor. That's not exactly a hard-hitting news item, but I like the article for the sense of how the cartoonist kind of worked his way into the regional culture of where he was being published, and into the sub-culture of rugby clubs on which many of cartoons focused. The trend is for comics to go national and broad and kind of all pursue the same paydays, and it's nice to be reminded of how something can come to matter to people that's maybe sacrificed a bit of broad appeal for a more focused relationship with an audience. I think it's healthier for the art form over time as well.

Also, it's really funny that the cartoonist preferred whiskey.
 
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