Minnesota State Fairgoers Enjoy a Pedestrian-Friendly Experience
Plenty of public bathrooms, trees to provide shade and shelter, no large parking lots to traverse: What could urban planners learn from the State Fair?
Category: Visual
Roadkill Bill: Part 4 of Vincent Van Gogh in America
Yup, it’s Minnesota State Fair time which means I will take a break from penciling Book 2 of Bicyclopolis to sketch people eating lots and lots of stuff. Here is the next comic about the cloning of Vincent Van Gogh. Click to make it bigger:
The Minnesota State Fair on Speed
No, this isn’t a video about rampant illicit drug use at the great Minnesota get together. It’s a timelapse video shot 6 years ago by Pioneer Press photographer Ben Garvin. I imagine many of the same things are taking place this year as I contemplate the even heavier than usual car traffic passing through my neighborhood […]
The Death of a Downtown | The St Paul Paid Parking Menace
A satirical movie trailer by Nate Hood in response to Mayor Chris Coleman’s proposal to charge motorists to park their cars on the streets of downtown Saint Paul. Published on Aug 14, 2015 R.I.P Downtown St Paul, if these urbanists get their way!
Roadkill Bill: Part 2 of Vincent Van Gogh in America
It’s clear sailing ahead on penciling the second book of Bicyclopolis, except for the Minnesota State Fair Sketch-Out. In the meantime, we continue with the saga of Vincent Van Gogh, cloned from a piece of his ear in last week’s comic. In today’s comic, Van Gogh attempts to eke a living painting the contemporary American scene. […]
BIKES vs CARS – TRAILER I
Bikes vs. Cars, a new film project from BANANAS! * and Big Boys Gone Bananas! * director Fredrik Gertten. Climate change and the daily stress of being locked up in a car frustrate people more than ever. People in cities around the world take on the bicycle as a Do It Yourself tool for change. […]
Roadkill Bill: Second Class Citizens
Ken and Roberta Avidor are packing their art supplies for another multimodal traveling and sketching journey up to Bemidji via Jefferson Lines and down the Paul Bunyan trail on their Bromptons which means work on Bicyclopolis Book 2 will cease for the moment. Do not despair for here is another Roadkill Bill comic from the era when cell […]
Roadkill Bill: Obesity
Ken and Roberta Avidor are still on their multimodal traveling and sketching journey from Bemidji to Brainerd via the Paul Bunyan trail on their Bromptons and eventually homeward on Jefferson Lines. Ken will pick up work on Bicyclopolis Book 2 where he left off. Another Roadkill Bill comic will fill in for this week. Click on the comic to […]
Roadkill Bill: Thinking Seriously
Summertime has caused a short delay in the effort to complete work on Bicyclopolis Book 2 as Ken And Roberta Avidor travel in multi-modal style by train, bus and Brompton folding bike to sketch far-flung, exotic locales such as Red Wing, Minnesota. in the interim, here’s another antediluvian Roadkill Bill comic. Click on the comic to make it bigger:
West Saint Paul Mayor Tries to Kill Robert Street Pedestrian Amenities
According to a recent article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the reconstruction of Robert Street in West St. Paul is bumping up against some cost overruns. Says newly elected Mayor Dave Meisinger: “So the numbers are increasing and increasing and increasing,” said Meisinger, who was elected in November after campaigning against the ballooning cost […]