Mining Tragedy

As I finished inking some Zits dailies late last night I was mesmerized by the apparent rescue of the miners in West Virginia on CNN. When I headed for bed around 2AM I was playing with images to draw today -- miracles, hope, brotherhood, keeping the faith.

I somehow missed hearing the tragic, more accurate story on the way to work and only learned the sad outcome from Enquirer editor Tom Callinan in the elevator. (It often strikes me as ironic that though I work in a newsroom I often hear the news from family members or in casual conversation or sometimes when passing the bank of TVs on the newsroom wall. I have no official way of being alerted to news events.)