Copper River Country Cartoon Maps

During the 1986-87 school year, my wife Pat and I and our then five children sojourned within the vast Copper River Valley, an area the size of West Virginia with a human population of about 2,500, bounded on four sides by mountain ranges containing the United States' largest National Park and a semi-active volcano.  There were many sources for humor despite the sometimes dangerous and always tenuous ability to live there.  Some 35 years later during the COVID-19 pandemic, I updated and colored my cartoons and area map, which had appeared in the late '80s in our friends and publishers' local news magazine the Copper River Country Journal and in our self-published book Too Far North:  A Northern Cartoon Odyssey, for use in the resurrected Copper River Country Journal 2020, now a website.  My new books, the 2nd edition of Too Far North and Living Too Far North:  Drawing Humor from a Winter in Alaska each contain the 61 cartoons in the original book, plus an additional 25.  The  latter book includes my commentary on each of the cartoons, along with humorous insights into life in rural Alaska plus a little information on our travel to and sojourn there.  For related information, see TD&H's Alaska Connection.