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Drawn daily by hand since April 1st 2000
Saturday July 11th 2026
Opening up the vault to see the cartoon published one year ago today.
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My cartoons don't just live in newspapers and inboxes—they are also available as Greeting Cards, this is a card from the For Arts Sake range.
Occasionally I like to escape the studio and follow my other creative passion, landscape photography.
Lifting Fog over the highlands, Bowral
If you want to see more of my non-cartoon work, you can check out my full gallery over at www.tonylopesphotography.com
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ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
My goal for this newsletter is modest, to be something to look forward to. A silly fun thing in your inbox that isn't a bill, Just a trusted daily friend where you’ll be happy to give up a few moments in your day and be transported into an imaginary world.
Insanity Streak has been drawn every single day by hand since April 1st, 2000. That start was no coincidence. It has won 15 Stanley Awards for best comic strip — the Oscars of Australian cartooning, as voted by industry peers.
Insanity Streak is currently published in over 15 countries, and is estimated to be read daily by over one million readers, which is either a testament to the engaging capacity of comics, or a major clerical error that has gone unnoticed. This newsletter exists because while print media is wonderful, scientists have placed it on the endangered list due to the threat of the modern media ecosystem and the mass migration by the glowing glass rectangles.
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The Wild World of the Van Gogh Truthers
In 1990, after years of practicing medicine and reviewing Van Gogh’s case history via his hundreds of letters, Arenberg published a paper in JAMA diagnosing Van Gogh as suffering not from epilepsy, as the artist’s physician claimed a century earlier, but from Ménière’s disease, an inner-ear affliction that can cause vertigo, of which Van Gogh complained, and tinnitus, a persistent ringing in the ears. Ménière’s, to Arenberg, could better explain Van Gogh’s decision to slice off his ear. After retiring, in 2017, Arenberg recommitted himself to studying Van Gogh and became convinced that art historians had made an even more alarming mistake: Van Gogh had not committed suicide. He’d been murdered.
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