itt: cartoons abt uk politics that are bad cartoons

yes it is, I have come to senses again after an evening constitutional.

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

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

Chris Riddell can draw at least.

better evidence needed imo

His kid's illustrations are nice.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9wlGdCWsAEe12Q.jpg

at least the unsmiling guardianista stasi neighbours have a better purpose than fucking netflix in their lives!

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

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.

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?

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.

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

Ben Jennings is the absolute worst.

The 496 (!) comments on that one aren't making it any clearer either.

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.

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.

I think it's just a silly joke rather than a statement? But a crap one.

What's the joke?

you'd think a climate change protestor would know better than to glue themselves to the solar panel for a sex machine

lol

we have a winner (i have no idea what's going on here)

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-eliN7UEAM-sN2.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-eliN7UEAM-sN2.jpg:large

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

and ofc it can be both

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)

they clearly are?

flatley rules clearly state that the arms must n

well who fuckin died and left him lord of the d

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.

https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2019/09/11/14/adamscartoon1109.jpg

Appealing to people who want to bring back dial-phones?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFOP1gEXkAYN3ZQ?format=jpg

makes u think

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOejdb7XkAEJGiW?format=png&name=small

Nailed it again

(I have no idea what this is about)

reminder: matt makes £650k a year doing this (whatever 'this' is), more than the editor of the torygraph

the system works!

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)

a: rinsing the failing telegraph for cash when it badly needs what little it still has
b: cock and balls for faces

The fact that the font has considerably better resolution than the drawing makes me a little suspicious (but I may be underrating the UK's best paid cartoonist)

hes a memelord

Matt S and Matt both otm. The position of St Basil's Cathedral and the top corner of GUM means our protagonists can only be in the courtyard outside the sealed-off government-complex bits of the Kremlin, which is admirable commitment to geographical accuracy too.

Mark S, even.

The fact that the font has considerably better resolution than the drawing makes me a little suspicious

I suspected the same, but 'tis legit:

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— Matt Cartoons (@MattCartoonist) January 16, 2020

Fountain with fantail pigeons thankfully spared from Matt’s interpretation.

it's legit - it's on the torygraph website - matt just chooses to provide his cartoons at 16dpi resolution

Obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crMw-QOHvBQ

memeking

is the deployment of the word 'cunning' some kind of near-subliminal lesbian joke from matt or am i losing my mind (both may be true, i concede)

I think both are true, yeah.