Surfing the net can be a great time waster, but it can also cop magical rewards. If you can score one of these a day, your life will end up as fulfilling as mine. Through a routine search one day recently, I happened to learn that Walter Ball (RURAL ROUTE) one of my Canadian cartooning heroes has a permanent exhibition in the Grimsby Art Gallery!

Before I tell you this, I had dropped in to the Cookstown Public Library early in the spring of 2013, to find out what kind of history Walter Ball's ...