Niric posted:

Even for the Express, this is terrible. There's not even any attempt at a joke here, it's literally just saying "immigrants are violent."

Fluo posted:

Telegraph:

baka kaba posted:

And what the gently caress is everyone wearing?

Niric posted:

The wife is there, presumably, to demonstrate he's not a suspisciously single middle-aged man, you know, one of those types (and for someone to be horribly, horribly xenophobic at).

Fluo posted:

quote:

“Makes you wonder doesn’t it? ..We’re in here, he’s out there.”

Mr. Squishy posted:

When was the last time you actually saw someone in a tweed suit? Maybe a secret underground of such sartorial throwbacks constitutes the Express's readership.
Anyway, at a guess, I'd say it's a Red Kite in silhouette.

quote:

Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell is a Nazi, says Times columnist Giles Coren – then retracts.


This Hamas cartoon is NOT by Steve Bell. But it might as well be.

[Update: So now Giles Coren has retracted his "Nazi" accusation, saying it was based on his misunderstanding of this post by Guido, which shows a genuine Nazi cartoon alongside Bell's. Coren says he thought Bell drew both.]

Times columnist Giles Coren, who's Jewish, has just tweeted this message to James Delingpole. (NB: It's his opinion – we're reporting it, not endorsing it.)


My sense is that the odious Steve Bell has produced a cartoon (which you can see in Brendan O'Neill's blogpost here) so unquestionably anti-Semitic – Jews as puppet–masters, for God's sake – that even the Guardian won't be able to shrug this one off.

Fluo posted:

Daily Express:

baka kaba posted:

I enjoy the way that everyone always looks like , so when you get someone vaguely realistic and toned down like that chauffeur it has the effect of making them look sinister. The s know too much and he has orders to kill. Death's shadow flits briefly across the sun

Fluo posted:

Daily Express:

LP97S posted:

Might I add, as an American, how utterly bizarre it is to not only see a political cartoonist acting like a reporter but also chatting even just a sentence with the PM, especially the one he draws as a condom head.

Whybird posted:

That sure is one clearly-labelled betting shop.

neck face posted:

I actually see a guy wearing full tweed every morning. Hat, jacket, waistcoat, plus-fours, argyle socks - the whole package. He has to be literally the only person in Southampton dressed like that.

Fluo posted:

Daily Mail:

The head of the NHS incredibly denies that he knew anything about the appalling conditions at the Stafford hospital.

Murderion posted:

I've seen one in Glasgow. He asked me what my building was as I was leaving work, then followed me and told me that the council high rises we were walking past were filled with immigrants secretly flown into Heathrow at 3 in the morning. Also apparently the only history book you'll ever need is the bible. Possibly a Daily Express reader.


... What? Is this just some idiom I'm not getting?

Fluo posted:

Steve Bell's video series are amazing!


Here is some more (most are in the OP but no harm in reposting ).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpilXpPt4y8
Steve Bell's election: 'You're only saying that because he's your mate'.
Bell talking to Huhne, Osborne and Harman.

Jedit posted:

Re: Giles Coren - now you know why he's known as "the Coren nobody reads or likes".

GuestBob posted:

His sister's alright though.

[edit]

That was the point. Ah, yes. Sorry.

Niric posted:

How on earth can she stand such a despicable piece of poo poo?

GuestBob posted:

Personally, I just think you're jealous of him getting to hang around with Perkins (yes, I know, I know).

Fluo posted:

Telegraph:

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

This one's almost good because it links to the other story nobody paid attention to, that a walrus came to Orkney http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-21647421

Fluo posted:

Indy:

He seems to start looking like Steve Bell's Cameron a lot more lately.

Fluo posted:

If George Osborne is the Walrus, who is the egg man?

Fluo posted:

He seems to start looking like Steve Bell's Cameron a lot more lately.

Jedit posted:

Bookies in the UK are not shy.

Whybird posted:

I'm pretty sure we don't have any which are actually named 'BETTING SHOP' though.

I mean, it's one thing for a political cartoonist to label a big stormcloud 'TAXES' because it represents TAXES, but taking a betting shop and labelling it BETTING SHOP because it represents a betting shop is a move worthy of Kelly.

quote:

Political cartoons: Britain's revolutionaries.

They appear daily in our newspapers and have lampooned prime ministers for generations, but have political cartoons helped Britain avoid some of the political tumult of its European neighbours?

For nearly 400 years, Britain has avoided violent struggles and political revolution.

In 1789, while France was busy overthrowing its royal rulers and unceremoniously chopping off the heads of its aristocrats, Britain shunned their revolutionary zeal, preferring a more sedate pace of change.[...]

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Lord Baker's top current cartoonists

• Steve Bell - draws for the Guardian newspaper. Known for showing John Major in his underpants and David Cameron as a condom.
  
• Peter Brookes - draws for the Times. His pictures of Nick Clegg as David Cameron's "fag" is an image Lord Baker thinks will endure.
  
• Matt aka Matthew Pritchett - draws a daily cartoon for the front page of the Daily Telegraph.
  
• Chris Riddell - Draws the weekly cartoon for the Observer. One of his latest creations showing David Cameron in the jungle on "I'm the Prime Minister... Get Me Out of Here!" is one of Lord Baker's recent favourites.
  
• Martin Rowson - draws for the Guardian newspaper. A "brilliant cartoonist" who is just as funny in person as he is on paper, Lord Baker says.
  
• Gerald Scarfe - the 76-year old veteran cartoonist known for his often vicious and cruel cartoons is still drawing for the Sunday Times.

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John Major's underpants became a fundamental part of his political caricature.

quote:

This anonymous cartoon from 1740 satirises Prime Minister Robert Walpole's love of patronage.

quote:

Margaret Thatcher as the Iron Lady. This cartoon wasn't published by the Daily Telegraph because the editor thought readers wouldn't like seeing "Margaret's knickers round her ankles".

Barry Foster posted:

That Stephen Collins is so, so great. Where on earth did this guy spring from?

OP posted:

Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins is a UK illustrator and cartoonist whose work has appeared in many publications worldwide. He has won several awards, including the Jonathan Cape/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize 2010, The Society for News Design Award of Excellence for Feature Design 2008, The Cartoon Arts Trust Best Strip Cartoonist 2008, and the Images 32 Bronze Editorial Award for 2008.

He has a weekly cartoon in The Guardian Weekend and a monthly one in Prospect magazine. He is currently working on a graphic novel to be published by Jonathan Cape in early 2013, about a man who grows a really massive beard. Like, really massive.

PREVIOUS CLIENTS:

The Times
Wall Street Journal
BBC
Deutsche Bank
Wired
The Guardian
GQ
The Spectator
La Repubblica
Stolichnaya
FHM
The Independent
Radio Times
(and many more)

<Some of his work.>

quote:

Best thing ever happened this week: Dave Clarke, the giant anteater keeper at London Zoo, very kindly invited me and Hannah to feed the giant anteaters. (Dave liked that anteater comic I did recently, so he invited us in to come and feed the real thing). He was a true gent, showed us behind the scenes round the invertebrates department and everything. There’s some seriously important conservation work going on all the time at London Zoo, it was quite an eye opener.

quote:

Also I did a podcast interview with Dan Berry (check his stuff out here, it’s really excellent) for his Make It Then Tell Everybody series. MITTE is brilliant, really interesting if you’re into comics and how they’re made.

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A long time to wait on this one, but I think it will be worth the wait. Stephen Collins, worthy winner of the 2010 Observer/Cape Short Graphic Fiction Prize, has his debut graphic novel out from Jonathan Cape in summer 2012.
From Collins’ blog:



“Dave has been filling my days for the past few months. He is the main character, indeed pretty much the only character, in my first graphic novel which will be completed by the middle of next year, to be published by Jonathan Cape. I’ve been drawing him so many times I’ve had to make a sculpy maquette to keep his head consistent. It’s like being a one-person flipping animation studio. I say it’s a ‘graphic novel’ but that makes it sound rather more grand than intended. It is basically a picture book with some words in it. I think they call them comics. I’m doing it all with pencil, and a lot of rubbing out.
The book is called ‘The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil’. It’s about this gigantic beard that causes a right rumpus. More broadly, it’s about hair and death and chaos and stories and fear and Stuff Just Happening. And the Bangles.”
“Basically a picture book with some words” …. I think he’s being too modest. I think it may well be great, based on his previous works we’ve seen and these pictures from the graphic novel:

Fluo posted:

His twitter: (He uses it alot too!) https://twitter.com/stephen_collins

Fluo posted:

I just love his style and everything about his work.

Noreaus posted:

That's a bit of a weak homage. The face wasn't present in the original painting and nothing else essential about the painting has really been altered.