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
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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
just such ugly drawings, painful to look at
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 9 April 2023 20:25 (one year 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 (one month ago) link