This Bright Future was a Weltschmerz continuation of sorts -- shorter, more distilled, geared to the attention span consraints of internet reading. It appeared online only from July 2009 to September 2010 in the eweekly The Canadian Charger. I had hoped to sell it to traditional print media, but had no bites. After a year, I was having a hard time finding time for it alongside my flourishing graphic design business, so I called it quits.

The characters from Weltschmerz -- Horst, Celia, Cosmo, Frank -- returned. But I didn't have space to really flesh out their relationships, as the slant was more political. They mainly existed to comment on social issues. They still interest me, though, so they may spring up in other forms.

I had fun contrasting the freshness of Obama with the stiffness of Harper. Then, later, examining the consequences of Obama flying too far from the sun -- crashing and burning with the Deepwater Horizon.

Most of This Bright Future took on Stephen Harper and his policies. I think the cartoons speak for themselves. A number of them were compiled this year in Portfoolio 24, the annual collection of the best Canadian editorial cartoons.