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Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Ben Jennings on King Charles’s struggles – Easter brings troubles for monarch as he prepares for coronation"

Telegraph:

Putin sacks top general over disastrous failed assault

Matt:


Independent:

‘How on earth did they get through?’ Met Police vetting under fire over offender officers

Times:

Humza Yousaf rejects ‘conspiracy theory’ over Peter Murrell arrest

Stephen Collins:


Bonus! Prospect magazine:

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Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Martin Rowson: all aboard Braverman’s Easter bus – The home secretary’s controversial plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is facing a number of challenges in court"

Telegraph:


Independent:

Inside the floating barge that’s set to hold 500 asylum seekers in Dorset; After JMW Turner.

The i paper:


Times:

Police who fail vetting are never sacked, says Mark Rowley; Go to work on an egg - Wikipedia

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Observer:

"The Tory Easter bunny – The government is offering chicks aplenty, yet the Brexit basket is nigh-on empty"

Sunday Telegraph:

China rehearses 'encirclement' of Taiwan with fighter jets and ships

Matt:

Police 'seize luxury campervan' from Nicola Sturgeon's mother-in-law

Sunday Times:

Labour doubles down with second Sunak attack ad

Mail on Sunday:

“They’ll never change… Would you mind drawing the curtains, Jenkins?... May I have a cup of tea, Jenkins?... Some more cornflakes please, Jenkins...” As Charles backs study into historic connections to slave trade...The Royal Family is hit by new payout demands over their links by Caribbean campaigners who say the Monarchy 'must make repair and atonement' for their involvement

Ichabod Sexbeast
Dec 5, 2011

Giving 'em the old razzle-dazzle

Cloud Potato posted:


Mail on Sunday:

“They’ll never change… Would you mind drawing the curtains, Jenkins?... May I have a cup of tea, Jenkins?... Some more cornflakes please, Jenkins...” As Charles backs study into historic connections to slave trade...The Royal Family is hit by new payout demands over their links by Caribbean campaigners who say the Monarchy 'must make repair and atonement' for their involvement

Even by the standards of Mac loving off, Mac can gently caress off

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
hehe the slave trade what funny laughs

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

Even by the standards of Mac loving off, Mac can gently caress off

Oh, I dunno, he managed to avoid any racist caricatures of "native savages" with a bone through their septum and otherwise looking like Golliwogs, that feels like a step into the right direction for Mac

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Nicola Jennings on Steve Barclay and the junior doctors’ strikes — Up to a quarter of a million medical appointments and operations could be postponed because of four days of strikes next week by junior doctors in England, the NHS Confederation has said"

Telegraph:

"How little the arrogant Tories know about Scotland"

Times:

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Jesus Blower, at least look up a photo of Yousef, Dross and Sarwar, that's loving dreadful

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Ben Chilton on Easter reflections and local elections – Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak await local elections as party leaders"

Telegraph:

Keir Starmer unrepentant over aggressive ‘dog whistle’ Labour tweets attacking Rishi Sunak

Times:

Labour takes aim at PM’s wife over non-dom status; Four-day junior doctors’ strike to disrupt NHS for a month

Evening Standard:

Joe Biden to make personal push to unite Northern Ireland parties during visit

David Squires:

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Martin Rowson on the strike by junior doctors – Political leaders squabble as the country’s problems go unaddressed, and doctors begin four days of industrial action"

Telegraph:

Joe Biden greeted by Rishi Sunak as he arrives in Belfast

Independent:

New Labour attack ad revealed as Starmer doubles down on controversial campaign

Times:


Evening Standard:

Elon Musk fired 80% of Twitter workforce but insists ‘we’re headed to a good place’

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Steve Bell on Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland — Joe Biden is not anti-British, one of his most senior aides has said in response to accusations by the former Democratic Unionist party leader Arlene Foster that the US president ‘hates the UK’"

Telegraph:

Cheers! Joe Biden makes a suprisingly gaffe-free intervention in delicate Northern Irish politics; Watch: Joe Biden makes gaffe during pub visit :ohdear: ; After Guinness.

Independent:

McDonald: Sinn Fein shares US foreign policy concerns but boycott ‘wrong choice’

Times:

Joe Biden ‘had the time of his life’ on first night in Ireland

Evening Standard:

Rishi Sunak plans autumn 2024 general election in hope of shock victory

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Ben Jennings on the government’s response to junior doctor strikes – The health secretary has been urged to accept help from Acas to mediate in his dispute with junior doctors in England who are striking this week over pay"

Telegraph:

Biden is obsessed with playing the Irish card – like every president before him

Independent:

Biden appears to confuse Black and Tans with All Blacks

Times:

Harry to attend King Charles’s coronation without Meghan or children

Evening Standard:

US secrets leak ‘came from gun enthusiast who worked on military base’

Stephen Collins:


Guardian Australian Sport:

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Martin Rowson on Steve Barclay and the nurses’ dispute – Nurses in England are to continue their strikes after voting to reject the health secretary’s latest pay deal"

Telegraph:

Rishi Sunak says no women have a penis and pledges to protect single-sex spaces; Keir Starmer says '99.9pc of women don't have a penis'; Grand National 2023 live: results and latest updates from Aintree as Corach Rambler wins
https://twitter.com/DaveyCartoons/status/1646916788146302984

Independent:

After Arthur C Michael.

The i paper:


Times:

Water companies argued against key pollution target

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Observer:

"Rishi Sunak and his cabinet fall at the first fence – Government ministers come a cropper in the Grand National credibility stakes"

Sunday Telegraph:

Nurses reject pay deal despite being offered bigger rise than private sector workers

Sunday Times:


Mail on Sunday:

“Nice sermon, Vicar. Especially that warm tribute you gave to Mary Quant” Dame Mary Quant obituary

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Mac apparently doesn't know what a miniskirt is???

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
He only knows them from their depiction in his complete collection of Readers' Wives.

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Nicola Jennings on the NHS under the Conservatives – The health service is beset by low pay and staff shortages as the next general election heaves into view"

Telegraph:

"Starmer has done the impossible: the Tories are in with a real chance"; ‘Deadly’ smart motorways axed by Rishi Sunak

Times:

Labour vows to issue more attack adverts targeting Rishi Sunak

Evening Standard:

Sunak admits failings on teacher numbers as he recommits to ‘maths to 18’ plan; 12-hour A&E wait crisis in London and yet more strikes on way

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Martin Rowson on Rishi Sunak’s maths plan not adding up — Rishi Sunak has admitted the UK needs time to recruit more maths teachers, adding that his compulsory maths plan would not involve forcing students in England to study the subject to A-level"

Telegraph:


Matt:


Times:


Evening Standard:

Wages failing to keep pace with price rises for 15th month in a row

David Squires:

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Martin Rowson on Vladimir Putin’s presence in Ukraine — Vladimir Putin has made a rare visit to a military headquarters in Russian-occupied Ukraine in an area where his troops are bracing themselves for an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive in the coming weeks" After Meissioner.

Telegraph:

Just Stop Oil protester storms table at World Snooker Championship

Matt:

SNP latest news: Colin Beattie steps back as treasurer following arrest

Independent:

DUP will not be ‘brow beaten’ into a Stormont return, Donaldson vows

Times:

"The Times view on SNP turmoil: Rotten State"

Evening Standard:

Inflation eases slightly but remains in double figures at 10.1%

Ichabod Sexbeast
Dec 5, 2011

Giving 'em the old razzle-dazzle
gently caress Off, Blower isn't going to cut it this time, I'm confiscating their knees

Doccykins
Feb 21, 2006
has he been to the Paul school of blue ink squiggle tattoos?

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Sarah Akinterinwa on Tory fears of the nanny state – Fears of ‘nanny statism’ have led to a failure by every UK government of the last 30 years to tackle the obesity crisis, a report claims, as it emerged that the condition now costs the NHS £6.5bn a year"

Telegraph:

Supermarkets accused of failing to rein in soaring food prices

Matt:


Independent:

Dominion wins $787m from Fox News as election lies lawsuit settled: ‘Lies have consequences’

Times:

Coronation quiche: recipe revealed for King’s signature dish

Evening Standard:

Ministers will trash UK rule of law if they ignore European court, says former Lord Chief Justice; Rare total solar eclipse plunges Australian town into darkness

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Ben Jennings: gifts fit for a king’s coronation – Plans continue for the official crowning of King Charles III in May – but how to commemorate the occasion?"

Telegraph:

Russian ‘spy ships’ threaten to sabotage UK energy supply

Matt:

Don't deactivate emergency phone alert, No 10 urges public amid Tory backlash; Bullying report sets ‘dangerous precedent’, warns Dominic Raab as he resigns

Independent:

SNP – latest news: Humza Yousaf insists party not going bankrupt as Westminster makes threat

Times:

November: Upset Ministry of Justice staff accuse Raab of hurling Pret salad during tirade about briefings

Evening Standard:

Twitter blue ticks: Celebs react to losing their checkmark, from Charli XCX to Rylan Clark

Stephen Collins:

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Martin Rowson on Dominic Raab’s resignation – The former deputy prime minister and justice secretary adopted a defiant tone when he stepped down after the Tolley report into his conduct"

Telegraph:

SNP still owes money to Nicola Sturgeon’s husband, Humza Yousaf confirms

Matt:


Independent:

After Manet.

The i paper:

Warning to marathon runners as Extinction Rebellion can’t rule out protesters invading race

Times:

Family-friendly activities for Earth Day

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Observer:

"Raab’s off and Sunak has no backbone – The prime minister confronts the bullying inquiry and his own weakness"

Sunday Telegraph:

Why you're receiving an emergency alert on your phone - and how to disable it

Matt:


Sunday Times:


Mail on Sunday:

“Y’know, I’ve got a nasty feeling that those Stop Oil protesters have been meddling with the sign-posts.” Met Police brace for eco mob disruption at the London Marathon and draft in extra officers - as around 50,000 runners prepare to take on the 26.2 mile course

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Ben Jennings on Braverman pushing forward with her Rwanda plan – The home secretary’s ‘dream’ of sending asylum seekers to east Africa is alive and kicking after the PM caved on ignoring ECHR rulings"

Telegraph:

"Dominic Raab’s resignation is a victory for the work-shy Civil Service"; Sifan Hassan, winner of London Marathon, had not raced this distance before

Times:

Emergency alert: phone users report flaws in first test; 2019: London Marathon: Big Ben runner gets stuck at finish line

Evening Standard:

Keir Starmer: Diane Abbott’s racism comments were ‘antisemitic’

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Ben Jennings on the effect of soaring food prices on families – Parents are having to find innovative ways to feed their children as the cost of groceries in the UK continues to rise steeply"

Telegraph:

Rishi Sunak seeks to win back corporate Britain with new business forum

Matt:

Emergency Alert test descends into chaos as it fails to work on up to 10 million phones After Chas Addams.

Times:

Diane Abbott’s comments were antisemitic, Keir Starmer says

Evening Standard:

Rishi Sunak seeking to end post-Brexit travel delays in new deal with Brussels

David Squires:

the sex ghost
Sep 6, 2009
Diane Abbott is an extremely cartoonist-friendly public figure but iirc she does not typically have big comedy red lips so make of that what you will

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Martin Rowson on the UK evacuating people from Sudan – The first British evacuation flight has left Sudan, Downing Street has said, after Germany gave permission for the UK to fly a rescue plane from an airfield north of Khartoum that it has been controlling to coordinate its own rescue from the country" After George William Joy.

Telegraph:

Watch: Joe Biden takes aim at Donald Trump after announcing presidential candidacy

Matt:


Independent:


Times:


Evening Standard:

Harry and Meghan prove nobody is safe from the dreaded ‘kiss cam’

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
yeesh we all get old

i think it's good Joe is still doing things

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Steve Bell on the king’s fortune v his subjects’ tightening pursestrings – The Bank of England’s chief economist said people ‘need to accept’ they are poorer, while King Charles’s private fortune is estimated at £1.8bn"

Telegraph:

British citizens accuse Foreign Office of 'abandoning' them in Sudan

Matt:


Independent:

Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96

Times:

Channel migrants at odds with British values, Suella Braverman claims

Evening Standard:

Strikes hit pupils again and no end in sight

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Martin Rowson on plans to overhaul the UK’s gambling laws – Online casinos face tougher restrictions but the majority of measures will be put out to further consultation, signalling even more delay"

Telegraph:


Matt:

Nurses' union chief 'dragged strike dispute through court to fire up her members'

Independent:

Rwanda not safe for asylum seekers and judges wrong to rule scheme lawful, Court of Appeal told

Times:


Evening Standard:

BBC chairman Richard Sharp quits in storm over Boris Johnson loan

Stephen Collins:


Guardian Australian Sport:

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Not the Guardian:

Richard Sharp resigns as BBC chair after failing to declare link to Boris Johnson loan
The Guardian pulls cartoon of outgoing BBC boss Richard Sharp after antisemitism backlash

Rowson's Website posted:

On Saturday 29th April 2023 The Guardian published a cartoon of mine about Richard Sharp’s resignation as Chairman of the BBC, the top news item the previous day. The main focus of the cartoon was Boris Johnson sitting naked on top of a dungheap holding bags full of dollars, with various wheeliebins around its base, labelled “Patrons”, “Friends”, “Families” and so on. Johnson was saying to Sharp, as the latter was leaving the dilapidated and clearly fire damaged room they were in, “Cheer up, matey! I put you down for a peerage in my Resignation Honours List!”

I think the purpose of the cartoon was fairly obvious - Johnson’s blithe toxicity by association, and how Sharp was the latest bit of blowback from the former Prime Minister’s
casual if all consuming sleaziness and selfishness. None of that, however, seems to have fuelled the furious response to the cartoon. That was all down to how I depicted Richard Sharp.

In the internal narrative of the cartoon, I’d wanted Sharp to play the stooge, the fall guy Johnson had brought low. I also wanted to hint at other parts of the story, and how the networks of croneyism cut every which way among our rulers. It is common knowledge, for instance, that Rishi Sunak used to work for Sharp at Goldman Sachs, the multinational bank infamously described by Matt Taimmi in Rolling Stone in 2008 as “a vampire squid wrapped round the face of humanity”. To signify this not insignificant connection between Sharp and the current Prime Minister, I had him holding a cardboard box, the standard accessory of the just sacked, with the Goldman Sachs logo on it, albeit partially covered by his CV, also held in one of the hands holding the box. The logo’s been crossed out and “BBC” scribbled beneath it, also now crossed out. In the box are Sunak and the aforementioned vampire squid, in a rather cutesy cartoon form, and with the typical yellow polyped skin that stretches between the tentacles of vampire squid.

And this is where things started going wrong. The portrayal of Sharp takes up 3% of the overall image. I was trying to draw him looking silently furious, by implication with Johnson, in the standard caricatural way common to all political cartoons of exaggerating various of his features (most prominently, I thought, his large forehead and rather hooded, baggy eyes). I thought, at the time, it was a fairly mild caricature compared with how I’d draw Johnson. But I’d also never drawn Sharp before, so maybe overworked it to satisfy myself I’d “caught him”; in David Low’s famous phrase, made him look more like him than he does.

Oh, and then I added, just for a laugh as a tiny detail, an empty packet of “Dignity Shreds” at the base of Johnson’s dunghill, with a pig behind an attendant fur cup snarfing a clump of them up.

I like to produce complex cartoons, crammed with incidental detail, partly it allows layers of nuance to be added to the overall umage, partly because it’s the English Cartooning Great Tradition, from Hogarth and Gillray, via Giles and Pont. Also, I know, a lot of the readers enjoy it. But sometimes, like in this case, in the mad rush to cram as much in as possible in the 5 or so hours available to me to produce the artwork by deadline, things go horribly wrong.

Satirists, even though largely licenced to speak the unspeakable in liberal democracies, are no more immune to loving things up than anyone else, which is what I did here. I know Richard Sharp is Jewish; actually, while we’re collecting networks of croneyism, I was at school with him, though I doubt he remembers me. His Jewishness never crossed my mind as I drew him as it’s wholly irrelevant to the story or his actions, and it played no conscious role in how I twisted his features according to the standard cartooning playbook. Likewise, the cute squid and the little Rishi were no more than that, a cartoon squid and a short Prime Minister, it never occurring to me that some might see them as puppets of Sharp, this being another notorious antisemitic trope. As for the pig and the “Dignity Shreds”, I think I painted them red as like scraps of licorice, again not appreciating they could also be interpreted as blood, repeating yet again antisemitic blood libels that have recurred poisonously for millennia. Finally, fatally, many people assumed the yellow polyps on the squid were gold coins and the truncated Goldman Sachs logo simply read “Gold Sacs”.

For this I apologise, though I’m not going to repeat the current formulation by saying I’m sorry if people were upset, which is always code for “I’ve done nothing wrong, you’re just oversensitive”. This is on me, even if accidentally or, more precisely, thoughtlessly. It’s a personal mantra of mine that satirical cartoons are like journalism, all about Afflicting the Comfortable and Comforting the Afflicted. In other words, I should never attack people less powerful than me (which narrows the field more than you might imagine) and I should only attack people for what they think, not who they are.

So by any definition, most of all my own, the cartoon was a failure and on many levels: I offended the wrong people, Sharp wasn’t the main target of the satire, I rushed at something without allowing enough time to consider things with the depth and care they require, and thereby letting slip in stupid ambiguities that have ended up appearing to be something I never intended. But as I’ve always said, once my work is in the public domain, it no longer belongs to me but to the beholder, in whose eye offence dwells just as surely as beauty.

Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. To work effectively, cartoons almost more than any other part of journalism require eternal vigilance, against unconscious bias as well as things that should be obvious and in this case, unforgivably, I didnt even think about. There are sensitivities it is our obligation to respect in order to achieve our satirical purposes. Despite the tyranny of the deadline, in future I’ll make sure I’ve drawn what I really mean, and mean what I draw.

Telegraph:


Matt:


Independent:

After Joshua Reyonlds and Bernard Cornwell.

The i paper:


Times:

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Observer:

"The Tory lame duck hobbles towards local elections – Water pollution, quack! Cost of living crisis, Quack! Strikes, quack!"

Matt:


Sunday Times:


Mail on Sunday:

“Blimey. I’ve been chosen to be bearer of the ceremonial Royal cosh to keep William and Harry apart.”

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Nicola Jennings on King Charles’s huge tax-free income – As the coronation nears, the monarch’s wealth contrasts with the hardship faced by many"

Times:

Public invited to swear their allegiance as king is crowned

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Daniel Christie on Liz Truss and the £12,000 bill – Former PM disputing bill relating to use of Chevening grace-and-favour house"

Yesterday's Telegraph:

Keir Starmer pledges return of house building targets in war on Nimbys

Telegraph:

Teaching unions launch ‘unprecedented’ attempt to stage joint strikes

Times:

Times focus group says the NHS is in critical condition

Evening Standard:

‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns of technology ‘taking control’

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

Cloud Potato posted:

Guardian:

"Daniel Christie on Liz Truss and the £12,000 bill – Former PM disputing bill relating to use of Chevening grace-and-favour house"

If nothing else, badly traced clipart is a very recognisable cartoon art style.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
It's the complete clash of ms paint walls and windows with ten times the detail that sells it. Really highlights the important features in the picture.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
she never nicked the kettle as well did she :aaa:

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Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013



Lmao, cry some more Blower.

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