itt: cartoons abt uk politics that are bad cartoons

Thatcher in a swimsuit is really disturbing me

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)

i always enjoyed the pleasure cummings took in drawing brezhnev

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.

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.

... there was a quotidian, almost cosy quality to its anarchic silliness, not unlike the young ones.

man at bar: lager lager lager lager lager lager lager 'n' a babycham
penguin: congratulations on your brilliant impression of a bus breaking down!

^ quality original material

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

I like If and Maggie's Farm

Steve Bell's debt to Robert Crumb + American underground comix seems more or less unique for a UK editorial cartoonist?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEIO1g0XYAAJfvk.jpg

terrible + disablist cartoon in Osborne's Evening Standard shocker.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGOEdB6W0AAHrQr.jpg:large

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

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.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2017/08/02/17-08-03x243blower_1-xlarge_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpg

Corbyn's one mad staring eye seems to be thing with right wing cartoonists.

fuck me i wish they had disappeared Watson 12 months ago

i like that even though tom watson isn't the target of the cartoon they've still depicted his inflated gut

hey, always room for a bit of body-shaming, target or not

"CHAVEZ REMEMBERED"

sinister seamus requires no such nudge

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.

attempting to eradicate all opposition by holding a snap election is a-ok of course

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/E0XHXE/mao-zedong-with-wife-jiang-qing-E0XHXE.jpg
Fiona Hill (left) Nick Timothy (right).

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.

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.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGz1jIXXcAAHxXE.jpg

arguably this cartoon is in fact GREAT

Oh my fucking god lol

it's certainly sexy

Looks like God is not so great.

Ben Garrison is neither racist nor anti-Semitic and has fought back against the online trolls by writing a book.

Bouncing back!

^ from the artist's own FAQ http://grrrgraphics.com/faq.html

http://grrrgraphics.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/gnatzis_garrison1.jpg

Hate how sophisticated some of these are: http://grrrgraphics.com/store/p30/Abandon_Ship%21_Brexit%2C_Great_Britain%27s_Escape_.html

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

posing-pouch Trump is a not a genuine Ben Garrison btw

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DG5Lo04XsAA05wG.jpg

(again not strictly speaking uk politics, sorry abt that)

my eyes!

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIBAP9jWAAAwJFc.jpg

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

do teenagers wear cameo trousers these days? my impression is that they do not, but I'm fairly out of touch

It would be difficult to rule it out.

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

here it is

http://i.imgur.com/FqDGkFJ.jpg

more troubling is that he's bungled his attempt at mimicking trump's diction. sad!

i like the style

bad art, better future:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIgotIWXoAEWe9t.jpg:large

Gotta say, I'm a sucker for a medieval battle scene.

"Ye Comrades of Islington"!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHsq2eSXYAA38Uy.jpg

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

That really really needed the Brazil flag there.

it's ironic, because Bolsonaro liked to cut down trees, you see

lol gonna go against the grain (ha!) here and say that one's ok

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

rip off of an episode of Hancock's Half Hour I just listened to

THE RMT DOES NOT REPRESENT TRAIN DRIVERS are you listening Peter Brookes

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

going by their ages they might be mother and son? if so, they're no Matt and Edith Pritchett

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)

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

just such ugly drawings, painful to look at

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