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 (five 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 (five 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$$ and bible black (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 April 2019 10:24 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/6bOX9Uo.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 12 April 2019 11:03 (five years ago) link
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FE7YENK%2Fdrive-thru-donut-hole-in-la-puente-california-E7YENK.jpg&f=1
― arli$$ and bible black (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 April 2019 11:09 (five 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 (five 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