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BRITISH POLITICAL CARTOON THREAD 2016 (and beyond?) Previous thread Steve Bell Website @BellBelltoons Born in Walthamstow, London in 1951. Started at the Guardian in 1981 with his daily strip, If..., which is currently stuck in a not-all-that-great Star Wars riff for the past three months. Martin Rowson @MartinRowson Born in 1959. Not sure when he started at the Grauniad. Also illustrates Kevin McGuire's column in the Mirror, and sometimes draws for the Morning Star. Chris Riddell Website @ChrisRiddell50 Born in South Africa in 1962. Started at the Guardian's Sunday stablemate the Observer in 1995. Currently the UK Children's Laureate. Has recently collaborated with Neil Gaiman on a number of books. - Christian Adams @AdamsToon1 Born in Surrey in 1966. Started at the Telegraph in 2005. Not on Wikipedia. Bob Moran Website @BobsCartoons Started at the Telegraph in 2011. "Still in his twenties", according to his website, dated last year. - Dave Brown @DaveBrownToons Born in Kent in 1957. Started at the Sunday Times in 1989, joining the Independent in 1996. Brian Adcock Website @BrianCartoon Born in Yarmouth in 1967. Started drawing cartoons for the Prague Post in 2000. Ben Jennings Website @BJennings90 Born in Hemel Hempstead. Won the Independent's smaller sibling the i's Cartoon Idol in 2011. Also subs in for the Guardian sometimes. Peter Schrank Website Born in Swizerland in 1952. Started at the Independent in 1995. Also draws for the Economist. - Peter Brookes @BrookesTimes Born in Liverpool in 1943. Started at the Times in 1992. Supports Queens Park Rangers football club. Morten Morland Website @MortenMorland Born in Norway in 1979. Worked for the Times since 2002. Also draws for the Spectator. - Stanley McMurtry, Mac Born in Edinburgh in 1936. Started at the Mail in 1971. Awarded an MBE in 2003. Sometimes hides a profile of his wife somewhere in the cartoon. - Misc. Stephen Collins Website @Stephen_Collins Not the actor. Appears in the Guardian's Saturday magazine. Only occasionally political, he gets posted because I like his work. David Squires Website @Squires_David Lives in Australia. Started at the Guardian's Sport section in 2014. Also produces a cartoon for the Australian version of the Guardian website, focusing on the A-League. Cloud Potato fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Oct 1, 2016 |
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Excellent edits Pesky Splinter posted:Before he can get to the Queen, first he must face... Pesky Splinter posted:And that's a wonderfully horrifying transformation into Blair; Paul Thomas Memorial Corner Former Express cartoonist, let go in January 2015. Recently did a book about tattoos. On the Twitters. Cloud Potato fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jul 24, 2022 |
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Wait, so we could be plagued by Bob for the next 50 years? gently caress. I thought he had to be an old shithead. Cloud Potato, you've ruined 2016 for me. Thanks.
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forkboy84 posted:Cloud Potato, you've ruined 2016 for me. Thanks. Guardian: "Ben Jennings on David Cameron's 2016 – Prime minister faces tricky issues over his European Union renegotiations" Telegraph: Independent: Bonus: After Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Times: Bonus from Ben Jennings's Twitter:
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Cloud Potato I am sad you forgot in your otherwise great op.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Cloud Potato I am sad you forgot Ach, you're quite right. Title image made and added to OP. I'm not sure where Paul Thomas is putting out cartoons, though.
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Cloud Potato posted:Ach, you're quite right. Title image made and added to OP. He's written a book
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Oh! That explains his Christmas cartoon of the snowman then.
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I bet he has a sleeve of tiny migrants running between different vehicles.
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Maybe now he can make a pleasant living hiding animals in terribly drawn scenes of everyday life without having to ever go into his horrible political opinions. Good for him, good for the world as a whole. A happy ending.
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Cloud Potato posted:Reserved. typically British
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So I saw at the end of last thread you said were missing Australian cartoons. Now I'm sure you'd like some more Pope, but for now how about a nice Bill Leak. gently caress off Leak.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:So I saw at the end of last thread you said were missing Australian cartoons. Now I'm sure you'd like some more Pope, but for now how about a nice Bill Leak. Thank you. It's pretty racist, but they've got to work on their backgrounds if they want to be Mac-level racist. Guardian: "Martin Rowson on the Tories’ troubles in the new year – David Cameron’s Conservatives enter 2016 beset by rows over flooding, City bankers and Oliver Letwin’s racist comments" Telegraph: Independent: Times: Drinking limits guidance set to be changed after review
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They missed a trick by not making Corbyn the old father time of year 1970-something.
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I can't wait to see what the cartoonist will do with this: Nigel Farage's car wheels 'were sabotaged in an assassination attempt': Ukip leader lost control of Volvo when wheel fell off on motorway... and police confirm foul play Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l#ixzz3wC69L3il Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Apparently Farage escaped an assassination attempt - his words. link to story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-foul-play.html Ritz On Toppa Ritz fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Jan 3, 2016 |
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Telegraph: 2016: the year of giant sinkholes.
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Observer: "2016: what lies in store? - Chris Riddell makes some new year predictions" Sunday Telegraph: New TV show starts tonight.
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Cloud Potato posted:Observer:
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Guavanaut posted:So a mixture of good and bad then? I'm not sure I'd call climate change and Brexit good.
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Cliff Racer posted:I'm not sure I'd call climate change and Brexit good. Is the trend of some artists to depicting the UK PM as a gross looking red thing a reference to anything other than ruddy cheeks?
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr - Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei today called for the west to condemn the execution of a Shia cleric in Saudi Arabia" Telegraph: Nigel Farage Says Police Suspect Foul Play Behind Ukip Leader's Car Accident In France Independent: Times:
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Fearless posted:Is the trend of some artists to depicting the UK PM as a gross looking red thing a reference to anything other than ruddy cheeks? Bell's version was an evolution from depicting him first as a jellyfish (IIRC it was over something Cameron said about political transparency) and later becoming condom stretched over a dead fish head, and then finally a pink condom. I vaguely remember something about Bell finding his rubbery flushed skin androgynous or something too. Rowson's is Cameron dressed as Little Lord Fauntleroy. The rest are because Cameron is a red-faced rubbery looking bastard, mostly.
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The best part is that Cameron actually ran into Bell at a conference once and asked him when he'd quit doing the condom thing. It was the wrong thing to say.
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To be fair, the joke is wearing thin by now.
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That's what happens when you use pigskin.
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Paladinus posted:To be fair, the joke is wearing thin by now. I imagine he hadn't expected to need it for more than five years, if that.
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John Major's underpants are still funny.
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Fearless posted:Is the trend of some artists to depicting the UK PM as a gross looking red thing a reference to anything other than ruddy cheeks? Better a red-faced blob thing than drawing his ponderous erect-nippled breasts which was the other characteristic obsessed over by the cartoonists in this thread. That aspect seems to have mercifully faded. Or he could be the classic "some guy" as Paul Thomas drew him...
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Well bell at least eventually switched to giving him a blow up doll body.
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nobodyssweetheart posted:Or he could be the classic "some guy" as Paul Thomas drew him... The one on the right isn't meant to be Cameron, is he? If so - loving hell, that's poor.
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Red Oktober posted:The one on the right isn't meant to be Cameron, is he? One of the things that I appreciate about this thread as opposed to the main one is the generally higher quality of the art-- in all its horrible glory. This cartoon looks, well, American.
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Fearless posted:One of the things that I appreciate about this thread as opposed to the main one is the generally higher quality of the art-- in all its horrible glory. This cartoon looks, well, American. I think Paul Thomas was lovely in a distinctly British way. Bland opinions, Fetish for Royalty/Contempt for Lower Classes, Cluttered drawing style. His American equivalent would have a not-thought-out opinion (usually "Obama Bad!") and rather than fill up all the white space with their lack of drawing skills, be as lazy as possible -- maybe a guy or a bumpersticker on a single object in a blank void. Yes, that is supposed to be Cameron and he always drew him with that head. Check the old thread for countless examples. Particularly striking when he has his uncredited "friend" do the head of whatever political figure "Cameron" is interacting with in a completely different line-weight. (from baka kaba, last thread) nobodyssweetheart fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Jan 5, 2016 |
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Red Oktober posted:The one on the right isn't meant to be Cameron, is he?
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on the Foreign Office's response to Saudi Arabian executions – Britain has been challenged to withdraw its support for Saudi Arabia as chair of the UN human rights council panel after the Foreign Office initially described the announcement of the execution of 47 people as disappointing" Telegraph: David Cameron: We'll directly commission 13,000 new homes Independent: Times:
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# ? Jan 5, 2016 01:43 |
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Wow, thats a pretty brutal Independent there, if it were a game or film it would have a rating not allowing children to buy it without an adult present (or at least it would in my country.) Not really sure how you turn what Saudi Arabia does into a pox on the British government though.
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Britain's perfectly happy to sell them arms by the truckload while turning a blind eye to this heinous poo poo, plus it backed Saudi Arabia being on the UNHRC Plus we like to think we have more influence than we do
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Cliff Racer posted:Not really sure how you turn what Saudi Arabia does into a pox on the British government though. It's more that the government has turned a blind eye to Saudi Arabian human rights abuses in exchange for arms deals for quite some time. Arms which have very likely been used in the continuing suppression of the general populus, in addition to just ignoring flagrant human rights abuses. Also because the former ambassador tried to justify the execution of 47 people: quote:Sir John Jenkins said: “Do I think the sentences are justified? Certainly the people accused of membership of [al-Qaida], particularly given what has happened over the past 18 months with these attacks by Islamic State inside the kingdom, I can understand why the Saudis reacted in the way they did.” Oh well, these notorious human rights abusers executed far more people than our favoured notorious human rights abusers have, oh I guess that's alright then. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Jan 5, 2016 |
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Shouldn't that sword be facing the other way?
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Britain also seemed to be key in getting the Sauds a seat on the UN Human Rights Council
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on David Cameron and the EU referendum – Government ministers will be free to campaign on either side of the debate for the referendum on Britain’s EU membership, David Cameron has confirmed" Telegraph: Times: Jeremy Corbyn keeps Hilary Benn as shadow foreign secretary in reshuffle Mail: Mac on... War and peace Mac on... Migrants walking into UK through Eurotunnel Guardian Sport:
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