https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/be476d2728f682570af639492ab3b385818c0389/18_186_2470_1482/master/2470.jpg?w=965&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=e02549e244d999afe85d454ed45bfa40
― mark s, Sunday, 11 June 2017 13:21 (six years ago) link
I have a theory that the Daily Telegraph catoonist "BLOWER" is in fact BRANCO (see the bad US politics cartoons thread) doubling up on his income by working under a pseudonym
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2017/05/30/cartoon-30052017-large_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqgCXocDQF5kP7s3jSjli3eCH0-jRUT4rHK8EgtaGoQwQ.gif
― soref, Sunday, 11 June 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
is drawing a tortoise really that hard
― devvvine, Sunday, 11 June 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
I'm trying to parse that first cartoon, but no, it's not happening. I assume that it suggests that whatever Brexit happens it's bad for business, but suspect I've got that all wrong.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 11 June 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
grudging respect for the shamelessness of not bothering to work out a way to complete his Abbott and Costello pun and just drawing a big picture of Corbyn covering up the rest of the name
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2017/05/09/blower170507-large_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqeo_i_u9APj8RuoebjoAHt0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 11 June 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello? More like DUD ABBOTT and LOSER CO(rbyn)STELLO, right? *submits cartoon to Daily Telgraph, slopes off to spend rest of the day in pub*
― soref, Sunday, 11 June 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
haha yes i have a full-size version of the first cartoon open in my tabs, i keep going back to see if the penny's dropped, but no, it is more mysterious than ever
most of his other cartoons are just ugly clumsy and obvious -- he's been getting work for years! -- but there's a sort of wtf poetry to this one
― mark s, Sunday, 11 June 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
wot no Mac?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/06/08/01/41350AB800000578-0-image-a-34_1496880366602.jpg
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 11 June 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
90% sure he has just recaptioned an old cartoon there
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 11 June 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
ok not to be caot defend-a-mac, but that is a serviceable and well drawn* cartoon making a political point i disagree with
*obviously he's always been a giles knock-off so i hate him for that reason****my mum drew my attention to how well mac draws curly telephone flexes, which is an odd thing to notice, but once you do, she was right, he was good at it, and perhaps still could be were there a need
― mark s, Sunday, 11 June 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
How to tell if you've drawn a really good cartoon:
http://i.imgur.com/GkhuTA9.png
― pplains, Sunday, 11 June 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
Blower is esp. terrible.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 June 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
it's weird, i know people irl whose mental landscape re: politics is accurately illustrated by these guys
and the arguments are near identical to the stuff Tressell mocks in The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, lickspittles are tenacious
― There's got to be a Corbyn after (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 June 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
a year old now yet suddenly relevant AND badly drawn https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCC-IwAW0AAGPcj.jpg:large
― mark s, Sunday, 11 June 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
Brookes also drew this oddly terrifying Boris/Gove cartoon:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmQw0nlUsAAOmra.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 11 June 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
Boris bearing uncanny resemblance to Rod Liddle in top panel.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 11 June 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
Not enough Martin Rowson on this thread.
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Monday, 12 June 2017 08:06 (six years ago) link
posting cartoons from low circulation trot newspapers feels a little like breaking a butterfly on a wheel, but I was impressed by the number of captions on this one
http://i.imgur.com/BjRupxd.png
― soref, Saturday, 17 June 2017 23:09 (six years ago) link
gerald scarfe is bad not good: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/81420000/jpg/_81420916_geraldscarfe.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 18 June 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link
britain's last-ditch stunt: the davis-yeltsin switcheroo
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCoaEnuXcAAcbe1.jpg:large
― mark s, Monday, 19 June 2017 09:37 (six years ago) link
i think that's victor garber at the eu end of the table
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNTQxODYxNzE3NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTM4MTMwMg@@._V1_UY317_CR20,0,214,317_AL_.jpg
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 June 2017 09:39 (six years ago) link
― soref, Saturday, June 17, 2017 4:09 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
some fine art brut here
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 19 June 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
polly toyn
― mark s, Monday, 19 June 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
i like how the cartoonist just went ahead and wrote "shit" on the pile of things he hated
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 19 June 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fa09e347c-dcf5-11e6-b8ce-5a639b2dfcaa.jpg?crop=3460%2C1946%2C263%2C147&resize=685
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDAKNPxWsAAEKGR.jpg:large
― mark s, Friday, 23 June 2017 12:01 (six years ago) link
bit sad abt nosferatu, he did bad things but he doesn't deserve this
― mark s, Friday, 23 June 2017 12:02 (six years ago) link
bad cartoon about Europe from 1989
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/2f/6d/49/2f6d49ea9ea51c4bd0ab05b1b7fbea2d.jpg
― soref, Thursday, 6 July 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
Hallmark of bad cartoons = everything has to be labelled. I know this has been said before, but they keep doing it. Are there editors out there encouraging this?
Also, am yet to see a successful rendition of Michael Gove. He is somehow beyond caricature,
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 6 July 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
did you not see the cartoon above portraying him as a fish eating Boris Jonson's head or
― soref, Thursday, 6 July 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
brookes is just drawing pob
― mark s, Thursday, 6 July 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
drawing him as pob is ok because he does look quite like pob, but it's not enough because he is also much more repulsive than pob. I can see them going for a cross between pob and a human, whereas the real thing looks like a cross between pob and a body from the haunted swamp.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 6 July 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
This is surely the canonical Gove?http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oHfzDFoVDvk/UEYRaaaY5EI/AAAAAAAAF9M/afSgSxxnk_0/s1600/Stephen-Collins-17-March--001.jpg
― Stevie T, Thursday, 6 July 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
Basically Pob crossed with Mr Bean.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 July 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
Steve Bell belongs on here, though some will I'm sure defend him on the grounds of perserverence: "They don't get it... It's funny because it's not really a monkey, it's really George W Bush... Oh well, maybe next time."
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 7 July 2017 06:28 (six years ago) link
Hallmark of bad cartoons = everything has to be labelled
It's more that ppl like Cummings were steeped in the history of political cartooning, where labelling was as much a part of the style as thought balloons were in comic books. And as with thought balloons, labelling in political cartoons nowadays is very hard to pull off - it's become an 'ironic' device that yes, signals 'bad' cartooning.
Not to defend Cummings, whose work always lacked Mac's visually pleasing cartooning skills - though I guess the dour ugliness of Cummings' drawing style is editorially appropriate for the Express.
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Friday, 7 July 2017 07:52 (six years ago) link
I do think Cummings deserves some credit for the look of "never in all my days" indignation on the Sovereignty Dolphin
― soref, Friday, 7 July 2017 08:01 (six years ago) link
Thatcher in a swimsuit is really disturbing me
― more polls about food and reactionary art (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 July 2017 08:52 (six years ago) link
cummings has a style, i always liked the thickness of his line (not well shown off in this example)
i will defend bell: he has a highly original symbolist imagination, which i think is a hard thing to retain after decades of turning out cartoons to order several times a week
(if he has flaws they are rarely the flaws of reach-down banality: i wd honestly rather an artist is drifting the outer reaches of his/her unconscious for insight and intuitive connection than hunkering down in the ante-room of cliche) (true he's sometimes very bad on the power dynamics of sex stuff: there be dragons in the outer reaches of yr unconscious)
― mark s, Friday, 7 July 2017 09:24 (six years ago) link
i always enjoyed the pleasure cummings took in drawing brezhnev
― mark s, Friday, 7 July 2017 09:25 (six years ago) link
I always stand by Steve Bell as an uncompromising angry leftist in a world of scumbags.
I also think that his bigger images often show him painting really well and evocatively. He has a good appreciation of art history and artistic method. And he is also a lucid and intelligent writer, better than many other people who write for the Guardian but can't draw.
― the pinefox, Friday, 7 July 2017 09:27 (six years ago) link
he was rubbish on university challenge (alumni edition) though.still have fond memories of the complete set of the collected 'If...' as a kid, 7 or 8 volumes, probably long term borrowed from my older brother or parents.
― The XX pants (ledge), Friday, 7 July 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
... there was a quotidian, almost cosy quality to its anarchic silliness, not unlike the young ones.
― The XX pants (ledge), Friday, 7 July 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
man at bar: lager lager lager lager lager lager lager 'n' a babychampenguin: congratulations on your brilliant impression of a bus breaking down!^ quality original material
― The XX pants (ledge), Friday, 7 July 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
Steve Bell is not bad as an artist, surely. I mean he has his own very distinctive style which works well.He does keep doing things like this though
https://edinburgheye.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/stevebell_incest.jpg
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 July 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
I like If and Maggie's Farm
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 7 July 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
Steve Bell's debt to Robert Crumb + American underground comix seems more or less unique for a UK editorial cartoonist?
― soref, Saturday, 8 July 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEIO1g0XYAAJfvk.jpg
terrible + disablist cartoon in Osborne's Evening Standard shocker.
― calzino, Saturday, 8 July 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGOEdB6W0AAHrQr.jpg:large
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
quite like adams' angular style, this isn't a bad cartoon in the sense the o/p is a bad cartoon
obviously his politics are as bad as his grasp of what's going on in venezuela or indeed the labour party
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
venezuela was clearly going to be something the press were going to beat corbyn with so I'm unsurprised but disappointed that his team hasn't thought up some sort of response to this.
of course it might end up not bothering the public, as the IRA stuff apparently was reasonably ineffective during the GE.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2017/08/02/17-08-03x243blower_1-xlarge_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpg
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
Corbyn's one mad staring eye seems to be thing with right wing cartoonists.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
fuck me i wish they had disappeared Watson 12 months ago
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
i like that even though tom watson isn't the target of the cartoon they've still depicted his inflated gut
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
hey, always room for a bit of body-shaming, target or not
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
"CHAVEZ REMEMBERED"
sinister seamus requires no such nudge
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
Trash the economy & eradicate all opposition - same old hard left whether #Venezuela or #CorbynsLabour pic.twitter.com/RxiSCrHtbl— Anna Soubry MP (@Anna_Soubry) August 3, 2017
Soubry, of course, repeatedly painted as the moderate Tory it's OK to like.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 4 August 2017 10:17 (six years ago) link
attempting to eradicate all opposition by holding a snap election is a-ok of course
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 4 August 2017 10:38 (six years ago) link
http://c8.alamy.com/comp/E0XHXE/mao-zedong-with-wife-jiang-qing-E0XHXE.jpgFiona Hill (left) Nick Timothy (right).
― calzino, Friday, 4 August 2017 10:44 (six years ago) link
It's worth watching Andrew Mitchell defending Paul Kagame on last night's Newsnight for an insight into Tories selectiveness when it comes to defending democracy.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Friday, 4 August 2017 10:58 (six years ago) link
It's not like Soubry hasn't recent experience of been frozen out by a small party clique, who were running roughshod over any opposition, and not consulting cabinet members on major policies + an election manifesto.
― calzino, Friday, 4 August 2017 11:10 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGz1jIXXcAAHxXE.jpg
arguably this cartoon is in fact GREAT
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
Oh my fucking god lol
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
it's certainly sexy
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
Looks like God is not so great.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
Ben Garrison is neither racist nor anti-Semitic and has fought back against the online trolls by writing a book.
Bouncing back!
― nashwan, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
^ from the artist's own FAQ http://grrrgraphics.com/faq.html
― nashwan, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
http://grrrgraphics.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/gnatzis_garrison1.jpg
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
Hate how sophisticated some of these are: http://grrrgraphics.com/store/p30/Abandon_Ship%21_Brexit%2C_Great_Britain%27s_Escape_.html
― nashwan, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
This one is bad not good sort of hilarious, with a truncated England representing Brexit and Brenda up in "The Big Club" with Kissinger!http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/199/995/335.jpg
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
posing-pouch Trump is a not a genuine Ben Garrison btw
― soref, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DG5Lo04XsAA05wG.jpg
(again not strictly speaking uk politics, sorry abt that)
― mark s, Thursday, 10 August 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
my eyes!
― koogs, Friday, 11 August 2017 08:04 (six years ago) link
http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/get_image.aspx?w=200&pbid=6f43f638-7c97-4764-9098-3bbcd0ad8ad3
The Daily Toon guy should sue The New European imo
― soref, Friday, 11 August 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIBAP9jWAAAwJFc.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 24 August 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
xp the New European have changed the picture at that link so my post above no longer makes sense - for posterity, the cover I was referring to was the one on the right below:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHQ1J-0WAAAMMUO.jpg
― soref, Thursday, 24 August 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
do teenagers wear cameo trousers these days? my impression is that they do not, but I'm fairly out of touch
― soref, Thursday, 24 August 2017 23:13 (six years ago) link
It would be difficult to rule it out.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 25 August 2017 06:57 (six years ago) link
What do we think of Ben Jennings in the Guardian? I thin he has lots of nice details, but his style is just so ugly. Maybe that works for depicting Trump, sort of.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cb9ecb312dcc60cb943e4773a998a6b5e8e04846/0_0_2693_1819/master/2693.jpg
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
here it is
http://i.imgur.com/FqDGkFJ.jpg
more troubling is that he's bungled his attempt at mimicking trump's diction. sad!
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
i like the style
― nxd, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
bad art, better future: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIgotIWXoAEWe9t.jpg:large
― mark s, Thursday, 31 August 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
Gotta say, I'm a sucker for a medieval battle scene.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 1 September 2017 07:59 (six years ago) link
"Ye Comrades of Islington"!
― calzino, Friday, 1 September 2017 08:05 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHsq2eSXYAA38Uy.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 18 September 2017 12:02 (six years ago) link
That's... not that bad.
― chap, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 10:33 (six years ago) link
For Hunt it feels like he's only been Health Sec for a few minutes. For the rest of us...eternity.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 11:03 (six years ago) link
nice
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 11:07 (six years ago) link
no it's bad
― mark s, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 11:17 (six years ago) link
very bad
― Gulley Jimson (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 11:22 (six years ago) link
so jeremy cunt was slenderman all along, it all makes sense now
― Mr. Eulon Mask, urging the UN to ban the "homicide robot" (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 11:32 (six years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d14c39aea633faf88dccebb60c94a1ecfa95d1e1/0_0_4859_3307/master/4859.jpg?w=940&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=191bb0f0c63349f7f0846b3465bbf8e5
― mark s, Monday, 9 October 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
^^^this may actually be good, i can;t make head or tail of it
I think that belongs on the Lovecraft thread.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 9 October 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
i've actually been thinking a lot abt lovecraft and current politics (unfortunately)
― mark s, Monday, 9 October 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
complete perspective fail with the tennis ball which looks bigger rather than closer, and it also looks more like May's head than her zombie one. or has she been beheaded?
― calzino, Monday, 9 October 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
Martin Rowson is generally pretty bonkers (and crap).
― chap, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 10:00 (six years ago) link
Is she playing tennis with a cricket bat and a cherry bomb? what is this? it belongs in a gallery somewhere. a gallery of horrible things
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 10:16 (six years ago) link
Her half tennis ball head is biting/eating his half tennis ball head
― Bnad, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
https://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_cover/public/magazinecovers/2017_45_the_tory_sinking_ship_med.jpg?itok=DjGtsvIX
― mark s, Thursday, 9 November 2017 12:05 (six years ago) link
someone needs their photoship card revoking!
― calzino, Thursday, 9 November 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
needs more rats NOT quitting the ship ftb afraid of the coming corbz govt
― mark s, Thursday, 9 November 2017 12:34 (six years ago) link
Enlightened thinking in dark times
Simon Heffer
*puzzled emoji*
― nashwan, Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DObeUisWkAE9prB.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 12 November 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
this one is from the Socialist Party/Militant's newspaper
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMHVHBAX0AAeibO.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 12 November 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
This is good content.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 12 November 2017 22:52 (six years ago) link
UK loves a good metaphor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwslRDTyzU
― pplains, Sunday, 12 November 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5cdb039318648aef0aa0005eb4b991e05832dc89/59_29_4757_3212/master/4757.jpg?w=940&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=08efb6912ad22f4a9d832ba2a52c0642
rowson doesn't really understand what just happened imo
― mark s, Monday, 4 December 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
what is that in the background? A narwhal with a limp horn?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 4 December 2017 22:17 (six years ago) link
This is another one where I like the art w/o caring much about its message - the gallery of tory grotesques is great, would buy a children's book about them.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 4 December 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
In the background is a looming fur cup, a common motif in Martin Rowson cartoons.
I like rowson a lot he has been very much on form for the last couple of years.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 4 December 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
He's so fucking abysmal and makes Bell look good, and he certainly isn't good. Terrible wooden + lifeless caricatures and always darker (as in drearily overworked and lacking in colour) than a 6th form goth's A level art project.
― calzino, Monday, 4 December 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
OTM and v well put, calzino. Rowson has been doing this shit for probably twenty years now, and his basic drawing skills haven't improved at all in that time - still the ugliest colour sense and ink line of any professionally published political cartoonist in the UK.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 10:15 (six years ago) link
it's the clanger in the room obvhttps://regmedia.co.uk/2008/10/24/tiny_clanger.jpg?x=1200&y=794
― mark s, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 10:49 (six years ago) link
Rather like this one:
Scandal @standardnews pic.twitter.com/OVL5y70wdj— Otto English (@Otto_English) December 6, 2017
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
shudders
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 7 December 2017 04:36 (six years ago) link
"Sorry Adams, but not enough people will recognise Arlene Foster. No, keep the idea, draw Theresa May there instead. Yes I know it makes it less funny and obscures the point"
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 7 December 2017 09:14 (six years ago) link
Martin Rowson's book of short stories/ squibs/feuilletons 'Snatches' is pretty funny. He should probably have stuck with writing, as I don't rate his cartoons at all.
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 7 December 2017 09:17 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQhOZDgX4AAcWzm.jpgbad cartoon, but Arlene probably is making similar faces rn, and maybe is stood by magic money tree.
― calzino, Friday, 8 December 2017 11:13 (six years ago) link
i... what?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXPds01W0AAxDiJ.jpg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 March 2018 11:18 (six years ago) link
amazing
― Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 2 March 2018 11:19 (six years ago) link
"lewd anime edits"
garrison works to commission, doesn't he? p sure i've seen others which have to have been requested and paid for by non-MAGA types
anyway this cartoon is good not bad, especially the economics depicted
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 11:24 (six years ago) link
who is the fellow abt to be run over?
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 11:28 (six years ago) link
I like the imprisoned Blairites and Magic Money tree swagbag!
― calzino, Friday, 2 March 2018 11:28 (six years ago) link
LIBERTY, MARK, LIBERTY, NOT THAT YOU'D KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS
sadly my research concludes that it is somewhat altered from the original, which featured al gore in the driver's seat and a uh non-bukkake earth in the sky (?)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 March 2018 11:29 (six years ago) link
Liberty? it looks like a pig trying self-immolation before the train gets it.
― calzino, Friday, 2 March 2018 11:32 (six years ago) link
Liberty is a pig trying self-immolation, do you see?
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 2 March 2018 11:36 (six years ago) link
non-bukkake earth
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 2 March 2018 11:36 (six years ago) link
i looked at this as an uplifting vision of the 2020s tbh
― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 11:37 (six years ago) link
makes u tink does this Garrison fellow.
― calzino, Friday, 2 March 2018 11:39 (six years ago) link
i believe tracer is arguing that the top-hatted pink head has been photoshopped onto the pale green body of liberty in an outrageous and subversive act of détournement
my preferred story is that some irony-poisoned very online leftie hired garrison to produce this (with detailed elements requested, as is i believe the garrison technique) (like jim'll paint it but TRENCHANT) and the wily and entrepreneurial BG* simply repurposed an old global warming cartoon to save time, with a quick corbs-head added here and a BOURG TEARS there
*BG? wait my mind is racing here
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 11:39 (six years ago) link
Oh wow, is that a top hat?!?!
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 2 March 2018 11:42 (six years ago) link
it's from this: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/264/002/a2e.png
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 11:45 (six years ago) link
another good cartoon in the thread reserved for bad ones >:(
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 11:46 (six years ago) link
No red star on Corbyn's hat = punishable by death.
― nashwan, Friday, 2 March 2018 11:49 (six years ago) link
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 March 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link
ps know-your-meme informs me that top-hat guy is called "porky" and comes from a 1920 poster designed by mayakovsky no less
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link
I always presume the fat cigar smoking evil capitalist in 20's/30's soviet propaganda is a Churchill caricature?
― calzino, Friday, 2 March 2018 12:03 (six years ago) link
there was a good Nazi cartoon of Churchill, good in the relative sense obv
― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 12:06 (six years ago) link
i mean as in "animated short" rather than sub-Matt caricature
― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 12:09 (six years ago) link
i think the basic idea predates him*: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Karikatur_Das_Verhältnis_Arbeiter_Unternehmer.jpg/708px-Karikatur_Das_Verhältnis_Arbeiter_Unternehmer.jpg
*but yes, he was after all secretary of state in 1919 when the various victors of WW1 invaded russia to "strangle the nascent soviet state", and often dressed like this (as, to be pedantic, did all other british politicians)
http://c8.alamy.com/comp/CPGYB1/churchill-winston-30111874-2411965-british-politician-full-length-CPGYB1.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link
as the closest to a self-outed matt-stan on the boards, i am drawn to the concept of "sub-matt"
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 12:12 (six years ago) link
Submatt is a Happy Hardcore DJ from Dewsbury iirc
― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 12:16 (six years ago) link
also i was gonna go with "sub-Mac" but i thought we should honour the great man's anniversary
― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 12:17 (six years ago) link
Matt's cartooning style is a bit 'Sub-Wicked Willie', imho:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Willie
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 2 March 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link
matt's scribbled cock-and-balls faces transcend the banky-esque DO YOU SEEs of joliffe--mayle* imo https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2017/06/09/1006-MATT-GALLERY-WEB-P1_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.png
*lol what
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 12:38 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYRQAzEW4AIMFB_.jpg
much hilarity from the SPectator
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
It's always a bad cartoon when it needs a written sign/poster to make any sense.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 15 March 2018 08:59 (six years ago) link
looking at that signature all i can think is 'asshoppers need not apply'
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 March 2018 09:09 (six years ago) link
lol yes
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 15 March 2018 10:09 (six years ago) link
This is quite something. Can't help thinking Dave Brown has some issues.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcHxiTAWAAEYo9S.jpg
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
good grief!
― calzino, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
woah
― nxd, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
i must have missed that issue of 2000ad
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
LAWKS
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
Brown seems to be saying on twitter that the Independent (the paper for which he's the regular editorial cartoonist) refused to publish it? (can't think why etc)
― soref, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f46377ad13e1b5406ad723736838a098dcb2dd2d/51_94_3285_2034/master/3285.jpg?w=940&q=20&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&dpr=2&s=a011fa7b0570f8c885d387d1a2f73189when I said they deserved to be messed up, badly, I didn't mean a badly executed cartoon, innit?
― calzino, Sunday, 13 May 2018 09:25 (five years ago) link
that is so crap
― Hire Planes (dog latin), Monday, 14 May 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
this isn't about UK politics, but it's by a UK cartoonist if you couldn't tell
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dld8GO3WsAYLQgB.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 25 August 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
idgi
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 25 August 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
Pope: "Forgive me for I have sinned". Paddy O'Bogtrotter not impressed.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 August 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/wYYUdUs833— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) September 9, 2018
― Stevie T, Sunday, 9 September 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
Depiction of Momentum as a rabid dog particularly hilarious if you happen to have met any actual Momentum members.
― chap, Monday, 10 September 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
Is that supposed to be Hodge next to Chuka? Wondering who's cowering behind them. Anyway, I'm on the rabid dog's side.
― chap, Monday, 10 September 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
if it's anyone i imagine it's joan ryan mp -- who happens to fit the usual generic "blonde white lady in peril" theme that is often favoured in such cartoons sadly
― mark s, Monday, 10 September 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
waht
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsHfHLcW0AYmYIS.jpg
― Neil S, Friday, 16 November 2018 10:22 (five years ago) link
By his low (yet high priced) standards that’s actually edging close to funny
― gyac, Friday, 16 November 2018 10:26 (five years ago) link
Nailed it again
― All right! A new season! (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 16 November 2018 10:44 (five years ago) link
Looks pretty clean for the amount of shit that’s supposedly hit it
― coetzee.cx (wins), Friday, 16 November 2018 10:57 (five years ago) link
where's martin rowson when you need him eh
hint: you never ever need him
― mark s, Friday, 16 November 2018 11:40 (five years ago) link
wat if i need a bad cartoon
― All right! A new season! (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 16 November 2018 13:13 (five years ago) link
matt's cartoon a couple of days ago was quite good i thought (the brexit deal one)
― imago, Friday, 16 November 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/GLA1NBp.jpg?1
― mark s, Friday, 16 November 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
that thing they teach first year ordinary national diploma design students: avoid anything that accidentally looks phallic or like a nazi swastika. Matt obv didn't go through that route of education.
― calzino, Friday, 16 November 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
*on design courses*
― calzino, Friday, 16 November 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link
assuming there's an accident involved is giving matt too much credit tbh
― the Stanley Kubrick of testicular torsion (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 November 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
he's banky and it's deliberate
― mark s, Friday, 16 November 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
I once saw some work by a student that was a silkscreen print on fabric of various penises and balls in repeat, that looked a bit cribbed from an Egon Schiele study. Classic Catholic Boy stuff!
― calzino, Friday, 16 November 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
I don't know much about art but...
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Friday, 16 November 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
this was supposed to be textile design, but like our friend Matt - some people like to kick against convention, or this case substituting some dull floral with a load of cocks!
― calzino, Friday, 16 November 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0ff6709ae30cd37a20fa3061af7ca00057da044e/0_0_3035_1819/master/3035.jpg?width=1225&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=912dddb79175933c8600869f1ea1bee9
― calzino, Friday, 16 November 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
Ok, that is great. Though the image of Gove in Speedos is a little disturbing.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 16 November 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/BstiacEvXX— Jeremy Noel-Tod (@jntod) January 14, 2019
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 14 January 2019 12:30 (five years ago) link
Ha, I always liked ‘Brant’.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 14 January 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2019/03/07/BOB080319_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqNvLtDx75wZSR0MSb26ou_wYXolwkaB7Nxk9VWQCpFM0.jpg?imwidth=1240
― groovemaaan, Friday, 8 March 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link
how many deathrays have you seen that go BOOM
― seandalai, Friday, 8 March 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
Well actually, it's not the deathray itself that goes BOOM, but the target it hits.
― pplains, Friday, 8 March 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
Finding it impossible to accept Hammond as mastermind behind anything.
― chap, Friday, 8 March 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2019/apr/11/steve-bell-on-julian-assange-and-his-possible-extradition-to-the-us-cartoon
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 11 April 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
i recently read a book where he was described as the "greatest UK political cartoonist" since david low.
― calzino, Thursday, 11 April 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
I quite liked this one:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2019/apr/10/steve-bell-on-benjamin-netanyahus-election-victory-cartoon
Which is notable because he's shite.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 11 April 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
I think his depiction of Trump's head as a toilet is one of the most effective cartoon renderings of Trump, something about toilets as a liminal space between what is ok to acknowledge and what everyone is aware of but has to deny because it's foul and taboo etc works as a representation of Trump's position as a conduit between the world of mainstream respectable politics and this netherworld of racism and misogyny etc thatcan't be mentioned - Trump retweeting far-right memes as a backflowing toilet
― soref, Friday, 12 April 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
Is that Nixon manhandling Assange?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 12 April 2019 06:35 (four years ago) link
LOL I almost posted the same question last night.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Friday, 12 April 2019 06:46 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D37vy-GUcAEXqEF.jpg
if you look at the pic it is appropriated from the goon behind him looks nothing like Nixon, but the fat-necked cop with the self satisfied grimace in the bottom left corner has a similar self satisfied grimacing countenance to the Trump toilet head!
― calzino, Friday, 12 April 2019 07:14 (four years ago) link
badly written post but i'm multi-tasking!
― calzino, Friday, 12 April 2019 07:15 (four years ago) link
Steve Bell was good in the 80s.
― chap, Friday, 12 April 2019 08:38 (four years ago) link
i will defend bell: he has a highly original symbolist imagination, which i think is a hard thing to retain after decades of turning out cartoons to order several times a week(if he has flaws they are rarely the flaws of reach-down banality: i wd honestly rather an artist is drifting the outer reaches of his/her unconscious for insight and intuitive connection than hunkering down in the ante-room of cliche) (true he's sometimes very bad on the power dynamics of sex stuff: there be dragons in the outer reaches of yr unconscious)― mark s, Friday, July 7, 2017 10:24 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mark s, Friday, July 7, 2017 10:24 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^
i still basically like bell's dogged willingness to develop a transformative dream-figure for ppl he has to draw several times a week and then work with it and stick with it: no one else that i can quickly think of does anything like this (except for NAILED IT MATT drawing willies on literally everyone's face, but then i like that also tbh)
not all these figures work! at all! bush-as-chimp was poor! and bell definitely also routinely tumbles off into ugly lazy slur territory with some of his targets, which is bad not good -- but i will stan for toilet-head trump and for condomhead cameron and for pierrot theresa comments are closed
his strips were generally a lot better than his big paintings tho
i mean gilray mostly belongs on this thread and low sometimes does also (i like low's line tho, i don't like gilray's)
― mark s, Friday, 12 April 2019 10:02 (four years ago) link
that Netanyahu one he did a few years back was dodgy as fuck (ithink it was linked on ILX SB thread). It was obv more ill-judged + stooopid rather than intentional anti-Semitic slur, but ironic appropriation of ZOG imagery isn't ever a good idea.
― calzino, Friday, 12 April 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
I appreciate that the pressure to have to deliver every day is slightly more than if you were baking doughnuts or something. But lots of his work is dreadful imo. Sorry comments closed i know!
― calzino, Friday, 12 April 2019 10:22 (four years ago) link
baking doughnuts is man's highest endeavour and i am offended that you would compare it to the frippery of cartooning for a daily newspaper
― arli$$ and bible black (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 April 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/6bOX9Uo.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 12 April 2019 11:03 (four years ago) link
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FE7YENK%2Fdrive-thru-donut-hole-in-la-puente-california-E7YENK.jpg&f=1
― arli$$ and bible black (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 April 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
bell's dogged willingness to develop a transformative dream-figure for ppl he has to draw several times a week
I've been trying to think of other examples of cartoonists who do this with real-life figures - Garry Trudeau maybe (I haven't kept up with Doonesbury in years)? It seems more like something impressionists or stand-ups do, rather than cartoonists, which I guess points up the uniqueness of Bell's work, and also its limitations - ie he can be as bad as a stand-up comedian!
Also hard agree about his black and white line strip cartooning being far superior to his single panel colour illustration work; I think it would have been interesting, and maybe better for Bell, if he had produced longer narrative comics, even autobiographical ones - his life in leftism would prob be quite interesting.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 12 April 2019 11:12 (four years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f14eec7d74baad95c666103f0103ceb7e371ed8b/0_0_4805_2983/master/4805.jpg?width=940&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=5d33fe94f1c7fb4bfa65ddbe7c967f9c
everyone done to the scale of their current next PM standings it seems, long-winded "ACME" joke and skip labelled "dustbin of history". Proper amateur shit is this.
― calzino, Friday, 24 May 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D8ZDr7wXUAERDlr.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
(the new yorker ffs)
― mark s, Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d8322d2fa4e30ce281780a873100a8d9a8f66ed6/0_0_4882_3069/master/4882.jpg?width=940&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=84e79be0bfa6a4c02c428911456dbf65
from last Sunday's observer. I think because he already is a crude + crass, gaudy cartoon character, he brings out the worst in lazy cartoonists who are already very bad at what they do anyway.
― calzino, Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
I'm having a bit of u-turn on this cos a farting shitty nappy is pretty lolsome tbf!
― calzino, Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
That is startlingly bad.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 6 June 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
yes it is, I have come to senses again after an evening constitutional.
― calzino, Thursday, 6 June 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
Was sure we had a thread for over explained cartoons in general but couldn't find so putting this here
https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/62117358_10214303142924877_2516822325463089152_n.jpg
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 7 June 2019 02:31 (four years ago) link
https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/62117358_10214303142924877_2516822325463089152_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_eui2=AeH84Tfbsxk5nLU73Cn_WNHRLnT5SQAByW82v_YpXAJT21wX4gcpERhLcP2qSY0e2_KIUZcpwt3K6BWgecGPBE5iNi0mrH-P3z2YotBvLEuG0g&_nc_ht=scontent-lht6-1.xx&oh=64c6811f9611db7f16eeb1578d4861b2&oe=5D959681
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 7 June 2019 02:33 (four years ago) link
Chris Riddell can draw at least.
― chap, Saturday, 8 June 2019 10:52 (four years ago) link
better evidence needed imo
― mark s, Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:02 (four years ago) link
His kid's illustrations are nice.
― chap, Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:15 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9wlGdCWsAEe12Q.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 23 June 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
at least the unsmiling guardianista stasi neighbours have a better purpose than fucking netflix in their lives!
― calzino, Sunday, 23 June 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
Just can't stand this guy's style, looks ugly and captures nothing
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/91505101a80a0e7ee373a723c94b945256f87178/0_0_2023_1213/master/2023.jpg
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 23 June 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
This - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2019/jun/23/ben-jennings-on-the-pressure-facing-boris-johnson-cartoon - for some reason can't hotlink.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 23 June 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
Jennings drew this cartoon about the Extinction Rebellion protests a few weeks ago and I don't understand it
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bab061d76b116c855fb9b078f2428b8ef3bad89c/0_0_3035_1819/master/3035.jpg?width=940&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bc939cf0fb2e08504dc32f49737b79e6
I know ER protesters were gluing themselves to structures, so the woman gluing her hand to the man's head is a metaphor for how they are making the public think about climate change, I guess? Is there any significance to the fact that the man looks like Pep Guardiola?
― soref, Sunday, 23 June 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
Yes... I don't... what is... I don't get what that is trying to say... does she fancy the guy and, er, that explains the lascivious grin... no, sorry, I give up.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 June 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
Doesn't look like Pep to me but yeah, this is incomprehensible.
Is he trying to say he can only think about climate change now that a protester is glued to his head? idgi
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 23 June 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
Ben Jennings is the absolute worst.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 23 June 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link
The 496 (!) comments on that one aren't making it any clearer either.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 23 June 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
he did that fucking awful Hockney swimming pool pastiche with Gove with the knife. A combination of bad ideas allied to bad drawing talent is a recurring theme in all of his work, but sometimes the bad ideas get even worse.
― calzino, Sunday, 23 June 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
If I'm being charitable I'd guess that he's implying people are being indoctrinated by climate change rhetoric, but yes it's pretty lame.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 24 June 2019 07:03 (four years ago) link
I think it's just a silly joke rather than a statement? But a crap one.
― chap, Monday, 24 June 2019 11:02 (four years ago) link
What's the joke?
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Monday, 24 June 2019 11:03 (four years ago) link
you'd think a climate change protestor would know better than to glue themselves to the solar panel for a sex machine
― turn me on and press my teabag (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 24 June 2019 11:07 (four years ago) link
lol
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 June 2019 11:08 (four years ago) link
we have a winner (i have no idea what's going on here)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEYkcOxXUAAHVFU.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 27 June 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-eliN7UEAM-sN2.jpg:large
― mark s, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
― mark s, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
its hard to know, rly, whether we are seeing the two fools and their impression of ireland and a miracle deal, or whether idk its just a lazy shit effort
― damarraghcas.jpg (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
and ofc it can be both
― damarraghcas.jpg (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
i mean yes it's an "away with the fairies lol unicorns" message mocking both of them and arguing that their conception of ireland is fantastical at best
but it's also a v bad cartoon (bcz the leprechauns aren't doing riverdance)
― mark s, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
they clearly are?
― damarraghcas.jpg (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
flatley rules clearly state that the arms must n
― mark s, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
well who fuckin died and left him lord of the d
― damarraghcas.jpg (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9752ad64c8f11291a98d3b06fa59454ed32845e4/0_0_4825_3007/master/4825.jpg?width=940&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=379503a202aa5427469bb0a304184aa7
more garbage from Rowson, same drawing talent deficiencies and horrible colour sense and now also he's using that same Corbyn in a Lenin hat the S*n uses.
― calzino, Friday, 2 August 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2019/09/11/14/adamscartoon1109.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Appealing to people who want to bring back dial-phones?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFOP1gEXkAYN3ZQ?format=jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
makes u think
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOejdb7XkAEJGiW?format=png&name=small
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 January 2020 12:02 (four years ago) link
Nailed it again(I have no idea what this is about)
― steer karma (gyac), Friday, 17 January 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
reminder: matt makes £650k a year doing this (whatever 'this' is), more than the editor of the torygraph
the system works!
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 January 2020 12:15 (four years ago) link
the cartoon is abt the west over-interpreting the resignation from political salience under putin of top russian metalhead dmitry medvedev by positing its correct equivalent
(matt is still good)
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
a: rinsing the failing telegraph for cash when it badly needs what little it still has b: cock and balls for faces
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
The fact that the font has considerably better resolution than the drawing makes me a little suspicious (but I may be underrating the UK's best paid cartoonist)
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 17 January 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
hes a memelord
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
Matt S and Matt both otm. The position of St Basil's Cathedral and the top corner of GUM means our protagonists can only be in the courtyard outside the sealed-off government-complex bits of the Kremlin, which is admirable commitment to geographical accuracy too.
― ShariVari, Friday, 17 January 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link
Mark S, even.
The fact that the font has considerably better resolution than the drawing makes me a little suspicious
I suspected the same, but 'tis legit:
My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to receive my unseen cartoons: https://t.co/JNDhrYJMFH pic.twitter.com/z1yKT6Ax2r— Matt Cartoons (@MattCartoonist) January 16, 2020
― pomenitul, Friday, 17 January 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
Fountain with fantail pigeons thankfully spared from Matt’s interpretation.
― steer karma (gyac), Friday, 17 January 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
it's legit - it's on the torygraph website - matt just chooses to provide his cartoons at 16dpi resolution
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 January 2020 12:29 (four years ago) link
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crMw-QOHvBQ
― pomenitul, Friday, 17 January 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
memeking
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
is the deployment of the word 'cunning' some kind of near-subliminal lesbian joke from matt or am i losing my mind (both may be true, i concede)
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 January 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
I think both are true, yeah.
― steer karma (gyac), Friday, 17 January 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roswPPr2t3U
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
something for me to reflect on this weekend xp
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 January 2020 12:43 (four years ago) link
bg staring into space sadly while brushing his extremely fluffy cat
― steer karma (gyac), Friday, 17 January 2020 12:47 (four years ago) link
emo blofeld
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 January 2020 12:49 (four years ago) link
How tf has that remainiacs thing not been posted itt
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
It’s really powerful stuff. I could feel the shit for brains positively radiating from my phone screen when I saw it. Kinda love that an ex ilxor is involved too, must be like seeing someone you went to school with in the paper for fucking a dog or something
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
xp it and the associated fools were discussed in the main thread
― steer karma (gyac), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/BestForBritain/photos/a.1921153301457398/2513957022177020/?type=3&theater
(I'm aware this isn't the one, I suspect they have a lot in the tank)
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 17 January 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
well thanks, I've just had a horrible 10 minutes scrolling through these, every single one of them belongs here and then some.
https://twitter.com/remainiacs_art
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
jesus keep that garbage off my lovely thread of extremely bad UK political cartoons
(more evidence that matt is in fact good btw = look at the alternatives)
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
That’s a bit “this is the war room” if I may say so
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link
ha, the link in their twitter profile just goes to some rando, the incompetence of these people who present themselves as the only grownups in the country never fails to delight.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
you may indeed say so if you enjoy stepping on my joeks
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
@ winsPost by steer karma (gyac) from bojo is king, brexit is on, stuff is fvcked, tomorrow starts here -- new govt new thread new battle on ILX - bojo is king, brexit is on, stuff is fvcked, tomorrow starts here -- new govt new thread new battle
― steer karma (gyac), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
I did indeed see that, was just surprised that this thread was revived and nobody mentioned itxp turns out I do sometimes
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Friday, 17 January 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
Posting this here not because Matt is bad, because maybe he is good, not going to have any opinion on this, but because it may be of tangential interest to posters itt
Today I am launching a competition: every month I'll give one of my cartoons to the person who can write the funniest caption for an uncaptioned cartoon – you can see this month's one below. Let's see if you can make me laugh 😜Reply or RT with your caption and #CaptionMatt pic.twitter.com/sLrwADhT6b— Matt Cartoons (@MattCartoonist) January 23, 2020
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 27 January 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link
broke: earning £650k a year for your inscrutable cock-and-balls artwoke: earning £650k a year while making your readers caption your inscrutable cock-and-balls art
― chapoquidditch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 27 January 2020 11:50 (four years ago) link
bespoke: woke: earning £650k a year while making your readers caption your inscrutable cock-and-balls art and the only thing you have to part with in return is the napkin that you drew it on
― chapoquidditch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 27 January 2020 11:52 (four years ago) link
more good cartoons in the bad cartoon thread with an all-purpose message that side-eyes literally everyone this morning
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPSexEOW4AARDa6?format=jpg
― mark s, Monday, 27 January 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
Posting this here *not because Matt is bad*, because maybe he is good, not going to have any opinion on this, but because it may be of tangential interest to posters itt🐦[Today I am launching a competition: every month I’ll give one of my cartoons to the person who can write the funniest caption for an uncaptioned cartoon – you can see this month’s one below. Let’s see if you can make me laugh 😜Reply or RT with your caption and #CaptionMatt🕸 pic.twitter.com/sLrwADhT6b🕸— Matt Cartoons (@MattCartoonist) January 23, 2020🕸]🐦
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link
Think the Spectator made the right call in swapping the gag.
Any @spectator readers out there ... the wrong image has been put with the wrong caption , or vice versa. I wasn’t deliberately trying to be nonsensical! pic.twitter.com/pyqkYzUNO2— Nick Newman (@Ncknwmn) February 21, 2020
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 21 February 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
as that’s surely funnier than the actual caption his tweet should read “i wasn’t deliberately trying to be funny”
― Fizzles, Friday, 21 February 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
he's no matt thats for sure
― mark s, Friday, 21 February 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
i wasn't deliberately trying to nail it again!
― mark s, Friday, 21 February 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
it's pancake day! Now what shall I draw?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERjprfqWkAEEAMf?format=jpg&name=large
― Neil S, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 09:30 (four years ago) link
It has all the superfluous captions and lame visual gags of a Ben Garrison cartoon, but without any of his artistic talent. All four caricatures are bad but by far the worst is Corbyn, how long has he had to practice drawing him now?
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 09:35 (four years ago) link
I was hoping for this one. Unironically love Corbs
― hyds (gyac), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 09:35 (four years ago) link
Has he ever seen a picture of Lisa Nandy?
Keir Starmer as an icy Terminator is p cool
― Neil S, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 09:37 (four years ago) link
still hasn't downloaded humour module from meltnet!
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 09:41 (four years ago) link
Lentils! Quinoa! er... Wooden spoons! I bet they're all wearing sandals, right guys?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 10:09 (four years ago) link
xpAll right, listen. The Starmer’s an infiltration unit: part man, part machine. Underneath, it's a hyperrightwing ex-DPP, Labour First-controlled. Fully legitimate; very tough. But outside, it's leftish views and issues: unions, gays, tax - grown for the soft left.
― hyds (gyac), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 10:35 (four years ago) link
Quinoa-munching pancake-flipping
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:14 (four years ago) link
Couldn't even get the distinctive shape of RLB's head right, useless.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1237826977672892420/UZ34ZTjG?format=jpg&name=900x900
the state of this fucking mess! Give Matt a pay rise.
― calzino, Thursday, 12 March 2020 11:15 (four years ago) link
oops probably belongs on bad FT articles that are accompanied with bad illustrations that look a bit like political cartoons thread, but never mind.
― calzino, Thursday, 12 March 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link
What's Stonehenge got to do with anything?
― chap, Thursday, 12 March 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
Er, so, you know he's in, er, England? Fuck knows.
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
There'll be a new motorway tunnel worth £2bn near it.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 March 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EY7HY5oWoAAP_1G?format=jpg&name=medium
from today's Irish Times, oh no the dreaded Boris Dancers.
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 09:05 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaJDwHeWAAE9B4b?format=jpg&name=900x900
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 10:54 (three years ago) link
theyre giant waves but also they''re giant killer fish its, a metaphor
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 11:12 (three years ago) link
there is probably the germ of a half decent idea for a cartoon there just completely bodged by a total hack!
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 11:15 (three years ago) link
What' going on underneath Parliament there? Motorway junction across ploughed fields? A ribbon tied around the little green lump that Parliament's on?
― Tim, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 11:19 (three years ago) link
some of these lot do make Steve Bell look very good
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 11:22 (three years ago) link
Marin Rownson in the Guardian just gets worse
― fetter, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
I demand an update where one of the waves is engulfing a slave trader’s statue
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
no no Ben is actually the name of the flag you see
― nashwan, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/7QX6bza.jpg
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 13:50 (three years ago) link
but that is good!
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
Well I was going to ask, looking at the person speaking on the left there, if the artist had ever seen a human head in profile before, but it now occurs to me that he's a dead ringer for Michael Gove
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 14:05 (three years ago) link
top-tier acne-work
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
do any living, shitting polypeds on this rock actually lift their left leg when they fart? I think that is hilarious: "I'm going to jolly well fire a gaseous blast of wind out of my rectum straight into tour face you cad, haw haw!" *lifts leg*
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
another thing that is funny as fuck is that the portrait of the prince regent appears to be indignantly smelling the fart!
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
(l-r)
Harvey Keitel, DeNiro, Scorsese. First audition for Mean Streets!
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
not UK cartoon strictly but definitely a bad cartoon
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c0736da5b611b5725ea7f487c90ef9e8b81e93d8/14_10_3006_1805/master/3006.jpg
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 09:37 (one year ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c0736da5b611b5725ea7f487c90ef9e8b81e93d8/14_10_3006_1805/master/3006.jpg?width=940&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dc319880e33a54d3cfac090fc4b19304
wouldn't it make more sense for a bolsonaro saw to have overheated or got stuck or something before it has severed the trunk of a brazil tree? still wouldn't be good but maybe a bit less nonsensical
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 10:02 (one year ago) link
has jennings ever done a good one?
some of the others try and fail for depth but his stuff seems so surface that it actually hurts the point he wants to make if you try to read it as satire or metaphor
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 10:07 (one year ago) link
That really really needed the Brazil flag there.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 10:40 (one year ago) link
it's ironic, because Bolsonaro liked to cut down trees, you see
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link
lol gonna go against the grain (ha!) here and say that one's ok
― Led By Honkies (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:57 (one year ago) link
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Ff0fbf998-7b20-11ed-bcd8-855e06175970.jpg?crop=2749%2C1833%2C595%2C164&resize=685
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 11:51 (one year ago) link
rip off of an episode of Hancock's Half Hour I just listened to
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 11:53 (one year ago) link
THE RMT DOES NOT REPRESENT TRAIN DRIVERS are you listening Peter Brookes
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
are Nicola Jennings and Ben Jennings related or is it just a coincidence that the Guardian employs two cartoonists with the surname Jennings who can't draw?
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d616ec63a2ecc8c5248246cd71dfdf8ac77f4f90/0_0_3035_1819/master/3035.jpg?width=940&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=90a6ca27afc37378c065620b642f5150
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dcaecabca370f89cb48cdb5ca0478438eaecdae4/3_0_3030_1819/master/3030.jpg?width=940&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=9afcc8486cad1b88978bf8d198994a3b
― soref, Sunday, 9 April 2023 20:12 (eleven months ago) link
going by their ages they might be mother and son? if so, they're no Matt and Edith Pritchett
― soref, Sunday, 9 April 2023 20:13 (eleven months ago) link
wait, there's another one https://www.theguardian.com/profile/seamus-jennings
(this guy's cartoons don't seem to be quite as bad tbf)
― soref, Sunday, 9 April 2023 20:20 (eleven months ago) link
If Ben is Nicola's son then I'm kind of impressed by the audacity of this one
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/04e2386fb0fdb31c80d7fb104a5d7ba5e8caab31/18_9_2998_1800/master/2998.jpg?width=1920&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=828ad5bb95d35b27564f96ed54bdc081
― soref, Sunday, 9 April 2023 20:24 (eleven months ago) link
just such ugly drawings, painful to look at
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 9 April 2023 20:25 (eleven months ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b663ff82ef304db5840231743aa8322e73e7c071/0_0_5126_3287/master/5126.jpg?width=1300&dpr=2&s=none
could be a whole separate thread for cartoons about UK politics that are weirdly horny
― soref, Saturday, 23 March 2024 22:01 (six days ago) link