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
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