itt: cartoons abt uk politics that are bad cartoons

UK loves a good metaphor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwslRDTyzU

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

what is that in the background? A narwhal with a limp horn?

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.

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.

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.

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.

it's the clanger in the room obv
https://regmedia.co.uk/2008/10/24/tiny_clanger.jpg?x=1200&y=794

Rather like this one:

Scandal @standardnews pic.twitter.com/OVL5y70wdj

— Otto English (@Otto_English) December 6, 2017

shudders

"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"

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.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQhOZDgX4AAcWzm.jpg
bad cartoon, but Arlene probably is making similar faces rn, and maybe is stood by magic money tree.

i... what?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXPds01W0AAxDiJ.jpg

amazing

"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

who is the fellow abt to be run over?

I like the imprisoned Blairites and Magic Money tree swagbag!

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 (?)

Liberty? it looks like a pig trying self-immolation before the train gets it.

Liberty is a pig trying self-immolation, do you see?

non-bukkake earth

i looked at this as an uplifting vision of the 2020s tbh

makes u tink does this Garrison fellow.

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

Oh wow, is that a top hat?!?!

it's from this:
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/264/002/a2e.png

another good cartoon in the thread reserved for bad ones >:(

No red star on Corbyn's hat = punishable by death.

*BG? wait my mind is racing here

ps know-your-meme informs me that top-hat guy is called "porky" and comes from a 1920 poster designed by mayakovsky no less

I always presume the fat cigar smoking evil capitalist in 20's/30's soviet propaganda is a Churchill caricature?

there was a good Nazi cartoon of Churchill, good in the relative sense obv

i mean as in "animated short" rather than sub-Matt caricature

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

as the closest to a self-outed matt-stan on the boards, i am drawn to the concept of "sub-matt"

Submatt is a Happy Hardcore DJ from Dewsbury iirc

also i was gonna go with "sub-Mac" but i thought we should honour the great man's anniversary

Matt's cartooning style is a bit 'Sub-Wicked Willie', imho:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Willie

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYRQAzEW4AIMFB_.jpg

much hilarity from the SPectator

It's always a bad cartoon when it needs a written sign/poster to make any sense.

looking at that signature all i can think is 'asshoppers need not apply'

lol yes

This is quite something. Can't help thinking Dave Brown has some issues.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcHxiTAWAAEYo9S.jpg

good grief!

woah

i must have missed that issue of 2000ad

LAWKS