The Colour News

All the Hues That's (that are?) Fit to Print

I love Roz Chast. I am afraid to say that she made this cartoon in 2019. I found it on her instagram account which is genius. But you can buy this print at the Condé Nast store, I think it even comes in a throw pillow.

I have a friend, Tutu Lisa, who lives in Hawaii on a tree and spice farm that is off the internet and solar powered and she does not follow the news really at all, except for tennis on the solar-powered flat screen TV in tin-roofed outbuilding in the jungle. When I am there on the colour-drenched farm that smells like citrus and cinnamon bark, I don’t feel like I am in America. It feels good to not follow the news. But then it feels irresponsible to not follow the news all the time. But then in Canada, when you follow the news you are basically watching the slow-motion civil war in America with a few depressing dispatches from the rest of the world, and when something big happens it’s usually in America, and Canadian news falls by the wayside, and that doesn’t really feel true to all the things that are going on. And also, I like writing about colour and I consider my part for the resistance is offering a portal to something real and alive and careful. Sometimes that feels like enough. Sometimes it feels wilfully naive.

All that to say that Roz Chast somehow perfectly sums up my current feelings. So what to do? I have a new idea. It’s called the Colour News, and you can download it if you are a paying member of the Colour Lab. It will have beauty and research and climate change and things that are really interesting to me and happening right now that I want to share with you. In this way, I will try to put my head only part way in the sand, and try to feel well, and recognize that there is as much fascinating and good in the the world as there is repetitive and bad, and that good news is also news and it’s real and important. Does that make sense? You can download the first issue right now. It has links to fascinating things happening around the world and a few things to buy for the holidays too. This does not mean that I will stop writing my old-style newsletters, but I feel like maybe you deserve more. —Jason

OMG. LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL SPIDER