tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86693818365249671092024-02-13T11:36:54.600-08:00Cartoons I DrewAndrew Fraser's cartoons on news, technology, parenting and religion.idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.comBlogger484125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-56104179782567791762023-12-27T05:32:00.000-08:002023-12-27T05:32:28.564-08:0023 Cartoons from 2023<p> As we march through the 21st century every December I post my highlight reels of mostly topical cartoons from the year and this year we need 23 so buckle up...</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">1. Happy New Year</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibOiUDLdXelQBE-SdGlfFMZFZxd_7lqzAexjOPFQs8aJPJ-Hx-J-t2-p9j8gU70iH6jsl2wVJ_1CX-BJwkUhU_WnQrQ9uKXJjnuFJ47pSUVjCARMSUeIJfY7EEtwUA7AN_i2G8rMPbgd40hPoe0pQqQq-7mAfgAF1FttslOgyz0ikifQeYYyNhIZ9e68M/s2048/2023intro.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibOiUDLdXelQBE-SdGlfFMZFZxd_7lqzAexjOPFQs8aJPJ-Hx-J-t2-p9j8gU70iH6jsl2wVJ_1CX-BJwkUhU_WnQrQ9uKXJjnuFJ47pSUVjCARMSUeIJfY7EEtwUA7AN_i2G8rMPbgd40hPoe0pQqQq-7mAfgAF1FttslOgyz0ikifQeYYyNhIZ9e68M/w400-h400/2023intro.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>During the dying embers of 2022 I drew this end of year cartoon showing the baton being passed onto the baby drinking Prime 2023. Being passed on by the weary 2022 was Covid and war both of which continued to cast a shadow over this year although Covid-19 was more in the inquiry rather than pandemic phase. War galloped ahead of its fellow horsemen of the Apocalypse to drag more countries into its terrible grip. I'm sure when I draw this again for 2023/24 the hope will be in the same ... please make 2024 more peaceful than 2023.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">2. Valentines Day</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZo3umSGW4WktV9wWORpfuT-TiAY9TPxy8hKZ6Gvr-iYxhqsHbSnz1spdnNvqOcJkHV8il1RU2scA6hQbOPAsO9APexI2FRiVOBmLaria_t0PQNe6kCyUf5903FZbyDs-HqUdYp2PJ1LYrYaLrpiw_nH3VgCE2z8qLOsPdaQzaJk3tAkw90PLzPjgci5A/s1000/Costofloving23%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZo3umSGW4WktV9wWORpfuT-TiAY9TPxy8hKZ6Gvr-iYxhqsHbSnz1spdnNvqOcJkHV8il1RU2scA6hQbOPAsO9APexI2FRiVOBmLaria_t0PQNe6kCyUf5903FZbyDs-HqUdYp2PJ1LYrYaLrpiw_nH3VgCE2z8qLOsPdaQzaJk3tAkw90PLzPjgci5A/w400-h400/Costofloving23%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>My first cartoon of 2023 to make it into print and a Valentine's pun I was quite proud of. The cost of living crisis keeps making everything more expensive, but on the upside it is a source of gags.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b>3. Thor day week</b></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-v7LEe01nC5wELQaHwkyO8JtY-USy1fAOeW3eoxiWSGyotBGA6lsRJemyyJf21-0ZOm9tPhw_-tA2zoQTpGKVr7q2TqXNECihyphenhyphenKj3rDKqIX-ezIlwWA1bgbSMen3YnxoVRq_b5A0qF5JF4LH7QtbmBko4FZH2BX8cefgRmnL5gAKgHDDaazLMk2CP2iI/s1000/Thordayweek23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-v7LEe01nC5wELQaHwkyO8JtY-USy1fAOeW3eoxiWSGyotBGA6lsRJemyyJf21-0ZOm9tPhw_-tA2zoQTpGKVr7q2TqXNECihyphenhyphenKj3rDKqIX-ezIlwWA1bgbSMen3YnxoVRq_b5A0qF5JF4LH7QtbmBko4FZH2BX8cefgRmnL5gAKgHDDaazLMk2CP2iI/w400-h400/Thordayweek23.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Talking of puns I tried to keep the pun ball rolling with this cartoon from the reject bin. In general I'm in favour of an N-1 working week where N is the current number of days I'm working. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">4. Aesop's Cables</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHtIBfS_E1C3IkDTfMOdnnnJNPiZMpBk8A1VPo0tOvVpAsYh5maTshREC-wbYPxm6eWfk59Esw_D8ZhMIFg7I3U-ZVOeYu4VCF-gAzYyJAHwv-sm-nTNo5Gj9uhz1mSdvGEbHiVFC5XNSPOKcBE_9mCDT_s-G09xtnQPfQS6W08tABwhFGvw0Xw-yO7t8/s1000/Aesopscables.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHtIBfS_E1C3IkDTfMOdnnnJNPiZMpBk8A1VPo0tOvVpAsYh5maTshREC-wbYPxm6eWfk59Esw_D8ZhMIFg7I3U-ZVOeYu4VCF-gAzYyJAHwv-sm-nTNo5Gj9uhz1mSdvGEbHiVFC5XNSPOKcBE_9mCDT_s-G09xtnQPfQS6W08tABwhFGvw0Xw-yO7t8/w400-h300/Aesopscables.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>And yet I continued to try and do puns to little effect but I was quite proud of this effort at a time when every local junction was dug up and controlled with inefficient four way temporary lights.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">5. Voter ID of Dorian Gray</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaRRky3V7XsM09hQ6-yydgiB8fkkvF2b8LH0yKfTl6VdsoFwsnrt3HaigLM3kMReB7MjzfZvSf5EAWbPW9H5bWnlIjbknrCxzBCD-grFPCmv_M73rGq0lNpOX5qIkOJZqvmRU7S7IJxT1taIv3R8lA5OYCo8RMgFJ3SGXUqrn-EboVAlvu-n8aTy8bAi4/s1000/Doriangray23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaRRky3V7XsM09hQ6-yydgiB8fkkvF2b8LH0yKfTl6VdsoFwsnrt3HaigLM3kMReB7MjzfZvSf5EAWbPW9H5bWnlIjbknrCxzBCD-grFPCmv_M73rGq0lNpOX5qIkOJZqvmRU7S7IJxT1taIv3R8lA5OYCo8RMgFJ3SGXUqrn-EboVAlvu-n8aTy8bAi4/w400-h400/Doriangray23.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>The government was legislating to get UK voters to produce photographic voter ID at local and general elections in order to deal with "voter fraud" which is an insignificant problem compared with ensuring the general population are actually able to vote and have a recognised form of photo ID other than just a driving license or passport. The proscribed list came out heavily weighted towards and old age pensioners were allowed to wield their bus passes, but students weren't which tended to favour parties that have older voters (Conservative) vs those who attract younger voters (not the Conservatives).</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">6. SNP Auditors</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIWjuHDBFHT2zK51o9Mqq5cbudBNJnXy8hUcFQOTzMnPIM06IwIf6YwD79N45iPYfKr-Uuu8gJas6S7bOLnyI8Ac6SOG088WNueht8fMPfNm8HqdY3-LXzhUFQCTTAkNQJL46fkm1ApbBuUhJvKc3ErY6Ayr3aMXAB0wCKbpqFd4N7uDJUJMmcjAXJelo/s1000/Nessie23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIWjuHDBFHT2zK51o9Mqq5cbudBNJnXy8hUcFQOTzMnPIM06IwIf6YwD79N45iPYfKr-Uuu8gJas6S7bOLnyI8Ac6SOG088WNueht8fMPfNm8HqdY3-LXzhUFQCTTAkNQJL46fkm1ApbBuUhJvKc3ErY6Ayr3aMXAB0wCKbpqFd4N7uDJUJMmcjAXJelo/w400-h400/Nessie23.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>In the spring there was a series of stories about the SNP struggles to find a replacement auditor after the previous auditors quit. The rumours then became a police probe into the SNP that would eventually lead to Nicola Sturgeon and her husband being questioned by the police and allegations around the purchase of a luxury .motor home. Normally Scottish politics doesn't make that much of splash around the UK press but various SNP in trouble stories did for a time register in the headlines and still rumbles on at a less dramatic level.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">7. Pillow Talk</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEine1jmvdeTJnp5NkkyEpAL5Er0951frRjphL71lHz8K2L12NjZ4ykk75zQ_wQ_RKseWq5_h2HwFHcih2DWzoYQJmw0Lg9-9LEPzEzx6Sj3zbALgcYPDOyQd2ODYwHpNQRe_f7v_I4zpW9xHXfZjOvcMMChvErDrUOhp66_Bds2fSFQRmIwKtop_jnMxfs/s1000/Pillowtalk23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEine1jmvdeTJnp5NkkyEpAL5Er0951frRjphL71lHz8K2L12NjZ4ykk75zQ_wQ_RKseWq5_h2HwFHcih2DWzoYQJmw0Lg9-9LEPzEzx6Sj3zbALgcYPDOyQd2ODYwHpNQRe_f7v_I4zpW9xHXfZjOvcMMChvErDrUOhp66_Bds2fSFQRmIwKtop_jnMxfs/w400-h400/Pillowtalk23.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>One gag that wasn't topical but got published in Private Eye in May was this one about Pillow Talk.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">8. Coronation</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiubb7ti3Oh-bCTlKLJG8P8AT1HTeQNqw4jFv83nSrL3itpHukKsKi1EjLRupTALqMjIjBQVIdo3LKFEpaMeqh8MM3zaRiXIizNFvgkYbXAboup9LX4iICMYR0wdJ1WdlRoZgvIY95jx990xvw-hyyEf0ifj-O01z07i40gifX7zXzHIoKfy4ca6yC-8/s1000/Coronationa23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiubb7ti3Oh-bCTlKLJG8P8AT1HTeQNqw4jFv83nSrL3itpHukKsKi1EjLRupTALqMjIjBQVIdo3LKFEpaMeqh8MM3zaRiXIizNFvgkYbXAboup9LX4iICMYR0wdJ1WdlRoZgvIY95jx990xvw-hyyEf0ifj-O01z07i40gifX7zXzHIoKfy4ca6yC-8/w400-h400/Coronationa23.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>The "budget" coronation for the already King Charles was on 6 May 2023 when some folk in the country got excited for the pagentry, Penny Mordaunt wielding a massive sword and some employers (not mine) issuing bonus bank holidays. I drew cartoons about the stone of destiny and this one from an a pothole's perspective of a street party (also didn't happen here).</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">9. Slow Marching</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzHlbHeJVeFoCjjmR2Uvijfv3rvIcx-AIFeNTMFeA5VdQXTLmhOHkZOkaMB3tR03-IwJtLy3Zl9jLRK6AYQIRozVFU-SUanBw6s9rvg9p3mQuG7lY9Q2jAypq2t6yjsZ4wVQkZRUWX7k0hIqm7PWtPOOcsIMxwnJsEemNptiPGvA6iMvPWf9gdCIy9hQc/s1000/Slowmarch23%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzHlbHeJVeFoCjjmR2Uvijfv3rvIcx-AIFeNTMFeA5VdQXTLmhOHkZOkaMB3tR03-IwJtLy3Zl9jLRK6AYQIRozVFU-SUanBw6s9rvg9p3mQuG7lY9Q2jAypq2t6yjsZ4wVQkZRUWX7k0hIqm7PWtPOOcsIMxwnJsEemNptiPGvA6iMvPWf9gdCIy9hQc/w400-h400/Slowmarch23%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>The crackdown on "noisy" or "disruptive" protests by a government not fond of scrutiny led to protestors having to adapt their tactics and so there was much talk of slow marching as an alternative to just blocking a road and how the police handled it. So now the police can enforce some sort of minimum speed limit on people holding banners which lead to this cartoon.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">10. Helicopter PM</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicED34ZgO90Ucs2Qf9nqbfVF72qUJe8J8fKhx6KydRDC8mWgwJb11n4OLbkGmzb3-oe5rd6jIzAAXJ0DMmy_bwOdPbmAGrsr3gmKk5iYW0kfhENmwfDlJbTfLcvBSTvlPt_t5c6_oHX-HvfTLpLojc4ZcxXtjRj18Sb0cYlCmmYKDt451-Ug54oiUeyOw/s1000/Dogwalk23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicED34ZgO90Ucs2Qf9nqbfVF72qUJe8J8fKhx6KydRDC8mWgwJb11n4OLbkGmzb3-oe5rd6jIzAAXJ0DMmy_bwOdPbmAGrsr3gmKk5iYW0kfhENmwfDlJbTfLcvBSTvlPt_t5c6_oHX-HvfTLpLojc4ZcxXtjRj18Sb0cYlCmmYKDt451-Ug54oiUeyOw/w400-h400/Dogwalk23.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Rishi Sunak our Prime Minister and executive emperor seemed to never want to take public transport when he could use expensive and environmentally dubious helicopter transport. Also there was video of legions of police officers having to jog alongs his presidential motorcade when he did use the car, This led to him being rightly mocked by cartoonists including this one who does have a pet dog.</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>11. It's a witch-hunt</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF1oqc5ZFBR0sM1HhLzTdcCVv9FJVaETlNRPtIgsTefDfYhywNlVSw1Zj7DGCDtIPtyMQ9IZt4x5KJS13FP-R63HAATKIc56Xl43GANz1jTcSeVHAFkK471dvbTPMZLkAZPmfWz-TzboaP1XRJp6NgsbPTBpMPV5sZ_QirsdHtoI8qiYeuHUBmQGvxM1A/s1200/IMG_6769.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF1oqc5ZFBR0sM1HhLzTdcCVv9FJVaETlNRPtIgsTefDfYhywNlVSw1Zj7DGCDtIPtyMQ9IZt4x5KJS13FP-R63HAATKIc56Xl43GANz1jTcSeVHAFkK471dvbTPMZLkAZPmfWz-TzboaP1XRJp6NgsbPTBpMPV5sZ_QirsdHtoI8qiYeuHUBmQGvxM1A/w400-h400/IMG_6769.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>In June there was a spate of Tory MP's resigning (by being appointed to ridiculous posts like Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead) trigger by-elections, except Nadine Dorries who said she would resign but then dragged it out for months. One of the most high profile resignations was former prime minister Boris Johnson who was being investigated for misleading parliament but interpreted this as a witch-hunt, political hit-job and revenge for Brexit. It was the same sort of language former US president Donald Trump was using the other side of the pond as the charges stacked up against him in various states. All political careers end in failure but not all are accepted graciously and indeed this may not be the end for either of them particularly with the 2024 US Presidential election looming. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b>12. New York New York</b></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi8sXltok9Ym6-lxc9kG0nEWpCIsDIV_hUmbjcrwSf8xgCkE8NsrzHSm47a4KzWhmp_Gs3x-zS6NMGn4RfInN6nxzGvlv1P6_sdV1ZF4dRKVVY9tjcnXHIADeaMUVEUW8Ip4kasOPI-sHheVn2NWA47F1Oc_eRgzcoQyL_dU1UVB_IRuGpNvjaJPesJ9E/s1000/Newyork23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi8sXltok9Ym6-lxc9kG0nEWpCIsDIV_hUmbjcrwSf8xgCkE8NsrzHSm47a4KzWhmp_Gs3x-zS6NMGn4RfInN6nxzGvlv1P6_sdV1ZF4dRKVVY9tjcnXHIADeaMUVEUW8Ip4kasOPI-sHheVn2NWA47F1Oc_eRgzcoQyL_dU1UVB_IRuGpNvjaJPesJ9E/w400-h400/Newyork23.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>This year I visited New York for the first time which was frenetic and tall. Just before I visited at the end of June Canadian wildfires and the direction of wind had turned the air quality in New York from disappointing to deadly and lead to various media pictures of an apolocalpytic orange-tinged Manhattan. This is the rejected cartoon I drew about it.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">13. Holiday Destinations</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH38l_FtuAnhQyYuU_FeGKhwmA1H4G6HnyK9MGGy2H9WBKeapq4Pf4SzRuliHRU6w0J0fMgaWiFIuXloMdrV6SOciGTcRYdUBBNSM1JyYzAtI6syyS-l_ZX0isig5E1NlV5TrMXtPoTPDXIYMYiZ5aOeDpuszu7o6S42tfpxSsTD203f_XiLuzuisNzU8/s1000/Hotholiday23%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH38l_FtuAnhQyYuU_FeGKhwmA1H4G6HnyK9MGGy2H9WBKeapq4Pf4SzRuliHRU6w0J0fMgaWiFIuXloMdrV6SOciGTcRYdUBBNSM1JyYzAtI6syyS-l_ZX0isig5E1NlV5TrMXtPoTPDXIYMYiZ5aOeDpuszu7o6S42tfpxSsTD203f_XiLuzuisNzU8/w400-h400/Hotholiday23%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>This cartoon I did get into Private Eye about trying to pick a destination that wasn't affected by wildfires as North America and the Mediterranean were battling an earlier and fiercer wildfire season. As terrible as it was for those who lived in these area the media only ramped up the coverage when UK tourists were being evacuated from beaches in Rhodes or elsewhere and having their yearly summer holidays nearly turned into nightmares. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">14. Actor's Strike</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUCUPfmyp2GR5Tn87PVvUOkagEugv79zd4SCccutGfvpFQ6hx4o2-8kYsXOWV7mjN4jNf-HYRgpIOuxCpHFlyH-Mv8CYHOCCJXJUQTVSJuI3Y59qYEdV4MUUxAodwaUCWgZDTQ1vwKYqIdZ9e82GPbmaJK7_cI3fNft2zR1sj3jCaRzbMYyzMshS07hbI/s1000/Strike23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUCUPfmyp2GR5Tn87PVvUOkagEugv79zd4SCccutGfvpFQ6hx4o2-8kYsXOWV7mjN4jNf-HYRgpIOuxCpHFlyH-Mv8CYHOCCJXJUQTVSJuI3Y59qYEdV4MUUxAodwaUCWgZDTQ1vwKYqIdZ9e82GPbmaJK7_cI3fNft2zR1sj3jCaRzbMYyzMshS07hbI/w400-h400/Strike23.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>This cartoon which appeared in Private Eye was about the SAG-AFRTRA actor's strike which followed that paralyzed Hollywood production from July to it's resolution in November. There was also a writer's strike about pay, conditions and the use of AI from the Writer's Guild that proceeded and overlapped this.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">15. The Twits</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgijEHyCXYEiv8d0xssdn0ZeJ5SMPVBOucC2rBZ9UwM2bk8zIF_cxFAncJQmwYhccvkUG5qQ4EohdSOaLF8iEW12lKX-fc90r_n2fgyaUjmvUV2HQoHvpekciuij-FmMUgywkw6T3CFoFVW3gpsI5v2a8mlZepLvobcNj3X-_-GfV_LiPIzXh0sxehi034/s2048/Fight%20off.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgijEHyCXYEiv8d0xssdn0ZeJ5SMPVBOucC2rBZ9UwM2bk8zIF_cxFAncJQmwYhccvkUG5qQ4EohdSOaLF8iEW12lKX-fc90r_n2fgyaUjmvUV2HQoHvpekciuij-FmMUgywkw6T3CFoFVW3gpsI5v2a8mlZepLvobcNj3X-_-GfV_LiPIzXh0sxehi034/w400-h400/Fight%20off.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p>Elon Musk managed to kill Twitter at the end of July changing its name to X because a long time ago he'd bought the domain X.com. The whole year has been a trial for Twitter users as first the platform became less reliable, then the launch of a paid tier meant that the free tier had to be nerfed, and finally Elon Musk did his best to bring back various banned baddies under the guise of free speech while using his platform to weigh in on all sort of issues driving away sponsors in the process. Earlier in July fellow tech-bro billionaire Mark Zuckerberg launched a Twitter rival Threads which was popular for a while and led to this illustration of the proposed cage fight between them which never materialised. The whole social media fragmented further as ex-Twitter founder Jack Dorsey threw Blue Sky into the mix if you had an invite and now I have to cross post to about 5 different platforms if I can be bothered.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">16. Moon Landings</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyWFzw7dYl8wYb7bEvu0VF80pUQYFQ63XjUcAHPMV9XsltCNG69WkxHAD6cIpjT0g-d9yQs_JHLb96m6uWyRkVM1UxQRWDDH-YbVPcZyT4AAiU7cXNzcl7m-2H37isaVqf3ETRMgEfd9V7mu7CrEd7wPHuBfDvtloxN4RgEoVYoMA4Twgg7NQNMFxhZGY/s1000/Jumpingmoon23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyWFzw7dYl8wYb7bEvu0VF80pUQYFQ63XjUcAHPMV9XsltCNG69WkxHAD6cIpjT0g-d9yQs_JHLb96m6uWyRkVM1UxQRWDDH-YbVPcZyT4AAiU7cXNzcl7m-2H37isaVqf3ETRMgEfd9V7mu7CrEd7wPHuBfDvtloxN4RgEoVYoMA4Twgg7NQNMFxhZGY/s320/Jumpingmoon23.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>On 23rd-August the Indian Space Research Organisation landed <span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">Chandrayaan-3</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> a lunar lander/rover near the south pole the fourth country to land on the moon and the first to land near the south pole . The budget of this mission was a fraction of what other countries have spent to try and land a rover on the moon and indeed only the previous week Russian's attempt to beat the Indians to the south pole crashed into the lunar surface. This new space race to the moon inspired this cartoon which appeared in Private Eye.</span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: large;">17. RAAC and Ruin</span></h2><p><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202122;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQT31BBDTV4F4AIkZ2UMmP5c30iA6moDHrt3RzqepLu1r9zw-ASfrNO4i57PQlNKo6RUuQDqZp74CSSXgfGlO9VJdXK9gtLIvFltUCARciXrwFaqqFXeAkIwDHjceshD5lUpjCC_63xZk5JwwDW2x2eziYRMe3rEXPPArW6gxG3d-7zXdUmV2ZoD36T_Y/s2048/Ascending.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQT31BBDTV4F4AIkZ2UMmP5c30iA6moDHrt3RzqepLu1r9zw-ASfrNO4i57PQlNKo6RUuQDqZp74CSSXgfGlO9VJdXK9gtLIvFltUCARciXrwFaqqFXeAkIwDHjceshD5lUpjCC_63xZk5JwwDW2x2eziYRMe3rEXPPArW6gxG3d-7zXdUmV2ZoD36T_Y/w400-h400/Ascending.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #202122;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Just before the English schools were due to return the government decided based on "new" information it had received that it had to close a number of them due to the presence of dodgy concrete known as RAAC or Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">No sooner had education secretary Gillian Keegan failed to quell concerns than it escalated and it appeared RAAC was in hospitals, prisons and anywhere else where buildings had been cheaply constructed and not replaced. The government had to appear like this wasn't something it had been warned about for a while and it was willing to do whatever it took to solve it hence Jeremy Hunt found cash down the back of the sofa to solve it.</span></span></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: large;">18. English Autumn</span></span></h2><p><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrS26p0U7rk2tqJa3-BSvHhIKk54am6gbidkGRJi_bG-DA21uAG2NQJ_U4OR30RIKgCu5TbqDf3g2IVFPzWN3rLon7czDFlFJxZRTUX3aytn5AbjATlvDxOStpH2oPld5WrWibPWC8UbFJiGCIss5AsPd8GRhH74bDrxHCzIwrohWXv1lG-faF2-aYz-Y/s1000/Englishautumn.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrS26p0U7rk2tqJa3-BSvHhIKk54am6gbidkGRJi_bG-DA21uAG2NQJ_U4OR30RIKgCu5TbqDf3g2IVFPzWN3rLon7czDFlFJxZRTUX3aytn5AbjATlvDxOStpH2oPld5WrWibPWC8UbFJiGCIss5AsPd8GRhH74bDrxHCzIwrohWXv1lG-faF2-aYz-Y/w400-h400/Englishautumn.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Here is a cartoon on a common theme that I drew at the end of Autumn which Private Eye liked but didn't use for a couple of months due to the glut of river pollution toons that appeared this year. As a visual metaphor for the rancid mess of a government of 13 years that has allow the corruption of this basic resource for profit was too appealing to cartoonists. It would be nice however if this wasn't still a cartooning topic in 2024 because the government finally introduced tough enough regulation and fines that private companies didn't feel they could dump raw sewage in rivers with impunity.</span></span></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">19. Long Term Decisions</span></span></h2><p><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCA8UMzoNUw64-f47k26Nr4E83W42WtSQfy7mivbYu7Jw-FiZqVJsXvOx7tea9N51inMjeUUedX-s3T5zdQMvjuDaq4Ma15Z1M50RKo6iV2jCyECMZ455DlItpzs9NbNYXzipcMcDjuDydhU7_XxczEA95UvMOUfrR6CtRtlN3u3mGgYURQX6b2XjsUpY/s1000/Longterm23%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCA8UMzoNUw64-f47k26Nr4E83W42WtSQfy7mivbYu7Jw-FiZqVJsXvOx7tea9N51inMjeUUedX-s3T5zdQMvjuDaq4Ma15Z1M50RKo6iV2jCyECMZ455DlItpzs9NbNYXzipcMcDjuDydhU7_XxczEA95UvMOUfrR6CtRtlN3u3mGgYURQX6b2XjsUpY/w400-h400/Longterm23%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tory Party Conference season was seen as yet another chance for a reboot of Rishi Sunak's premiership after a disastrous summer of stories of crumbling concrete in schools etc, resignations and resulting by-election losses. With no sense of irony Rishi Sunak set out to unveil a series of pledges to try and pull up his poll numbers while claiming they were tough but necessary long term decisions for the country. An example was trying to up North Sea oil drilling and postponing the ban on petrol/diesel cars while still claiming we were on track with environmental targets in a "pragmatic" way.</span></span></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">20 Planet Earth 3</span></span></h2><p><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXMT6ZuhiU4iY-XeaUOLU5QD2ku1Xrc948i8EO4UUMbCNxy_fKOdcmorxYzkY-FSISnW7oQj1E0KqjlVEurP-9pj1FyuZrSryv0gAo14sHOgGMXgKterkRrmRrmW_RjaL_y18l_euNFzCH-byujLt7stL2sa9RrMSWEjQhhstEiup9aTYtL27U-cvMJ-I/s1000/Shark23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXMT6ZuhiU4iY-XeaUOLU5QD2ku1Xrc948i8EO4UUMbCNxy_fKOdcmorxYzkY-FSISnW7oQj1E0KqjlVEurP-9pj1FyuZrSryv0gAo14sHOgGMXgKterkRrmRrmW_RjaL_y18l_euNFzCH-byujLt7stL2sa9RrMSWEjQhhstEiup9aTYtL27U-cvMJ-I/w400-h400/Shark23.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Apart from Barbie/Oppenheimer one of the cultural events of the year was another Planet Earth season featuring David Attenborough and capturing spectacular wildlife in high definition. As well as drawing along with the weekly episodes I also got this cartoon into the Eye which lead to some feedback of people telling me their toddler found it hilarious, and another telling me why film sharks are called Bruce. Apparently "Bruce" was the nickname of the shark in Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" franchise which was then referenced in Finding Nemo where the shark was also called Bruce. The Planet Earth 3 series was not exclusively about sharks but they did make quite a few appearances.</span></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">21 Liz Truss Plot</span></span></h2><p><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp0eAqjd_wW4qw4srja5vyFIdomAYokA3UmV-1J0pbzk9pcjPT7XhywM0F-TNf3OL6ZEpAtEkmfLik7pw4JbJxZl1n4YgNlYYcX9BSVUUAsgJd2LBq6bug8dK_Av11342DwzGeKrX_VCJtUhZchtASZbSuJseFLwtdImUipw2l33X_2hy8rsTXSxNVmCs/s1000/Liztruss23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp0eAqjd_wW4qw4srja5vyFIdomAYokA3UmV-1J0pbzk9pcjPT7XhywM0F-TNf3OL6ZEpAtEkmfLik7pw4JbJxZl1n4YgNlYYcX9BSVUUAsgJd2LBq6bug8dK_Av11342DwzGeKrX_VCJtUhZchtASZbSuJseFLwtdImUipw2l33X_2hy8rsTXSxNVmCs/w400-h300/Liztruss23.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;">This is perhaps my favourite cartoon I got published this year based on the famous engraving of the Gunpowder Plot by Crispijn de Posse the Elder (on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London). Around bonfire night everyone tries to tie current events into the gunpowder plot and Liz Truss and her supporters rather than hiding were plotting with their own take on how the government should be run (because they did so well last time). I got to redraw the etching in a fun cartoon style.<br /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">22 Covid For Christmas</span></span></h2><p><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHnB_47qsgqMNhxbNnK576mofZUDiwraztK0oxy7au71SHYRRrA8phlVLrwY4r3Jt6w9yv-2y6z4mxF5dPYFPv4QrbGEuF87eiOX6n7kmqrwJwxvqba62DO3ubg1RRXZSoR7dbt77MRfzKnRHfgFNdUmvuWZTZNQBqvRHPWW1rBHTteHuxfkmGqk1jUCk/s1000/Christmascovid23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHnB_47qsgqMNhxbNnK576mofZUDiwraztK0oxy7au71SHYRRrA8phlVLrwY4r3Jt6w9yv-2y6z4mxF5dPYFPv4QrbGEuF87eiOX6n7kmqrwJwxvqba62DO3ubg1RRXZSoR7dbt77MRfzKnRHfgFNdUmvuWZTZNQBqvRHPWW1rBHTteHuxfkmGqk1jUCk/w400-h400/Christmascovid23.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;">Submitted a couple of months before Christmas this cartoon ended up not being too far off the mark with a number of people I know missing Christmas or the lead up to Christmas with either Covid-19 or strangely resilient colds. One worry of mine was I had calculated the number of days based on the issue closest to when I submitted this cartoon and the Eye ended up using it in a later issue (the bumper one with four toons) and would they have left the number of days or adjusted it but they nailed it.</span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: large;">23 Conflict Christmas</span></h2><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmHTvwaVo7m0sr6sfcYBiTJI_6bUcmNQzzUf2barlSrTbi-0b_rnPPKabFShxrpfyqjE3BhHF23sYlyIaOIrCOy1A4tUG5ra0G91x3YHv1U4vMSSA6O96_YGbY_QZxMCKq6Z0uYDJNN4OsopyowvR-4n6mnBhBDRX6jcUpirZaVNmrKvOuW4rM93Df_yE/s2048/Christmas.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmHTvwaVo7m0sr6sfcYBiTJI_6bUcmNQzzUf2barlSrTbi-0b_rnPPKabFShxrpfyqjE3BhHF23sYlyIaOIrCOy1A4tUG5ra0G91x3YHv1U4vMSSA6O96_YGbY_QZxMCKq6Z0uYDJNN4OsopyowvR-4n6mnBhBDRX6jcUpirZaVNmrKvOuW4rM93Df_yE/w400-h400/Christmas.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;">I'm normally a big fan of Christmas but a couple of things made this year a bit less festive. On the personal front I took a nasty tumble a week or so before Christmas and thanks to to a jaw injury was on a softer diet of squishy sprouts and no crunchy potatoes. Also since October 7th there had been a war between Hamas and Israel after a surprise attack into Israel claimed over a thousand Israeli lives and hostages taken, The ongoing conflict and Israeli invasion/bombing has turned Gaza into a war zone with many civilian casualties and much of the population displaced. How cartoonists respond to such events has been discussed much this year with some cartoons and comments deemed to have taken sides or be open to allegations of anti-semitism or islamophobia, while others of the "won't anyone think of the children" are dismissed as not having much to say other than war is terrible especially for kids. </span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;">I don't have a regular editorial slot being mostly an on-spec cartoonist so I haven't had to draw anything specifically on this subject and this is about as close as I've come to comment which is firmly in the latter isn't war terrible for kids category.</span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;">Of all the things we pass into 2024 please let us have resolved the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine before I have to do another of these blog posts.</span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><br /></span></div><div>A happy 2024 to you all.</div><div><br /></div></span>idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-22379835890630932372023-04-05T09:33:00.000-07:002023-04-05T09:33:01.145-07:00March of Robots 2023<p> So March of Robots is an art challenge I've done a few times because who doesn't like drawing robots and these days of algorithms suppressing free to play content you need to put something out there.</p><p>My original stated aim was that I would do all 31 prompts but I'd limit the to no more 30 minutes work but while I managed all 31 sometimes I would get carried away such as this jungle scene for March 3rd.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYYUewUKaQkRPwC92MS0MESC4ocdDlDB9LqJ10MlGADV0Ml5WvK3zEZLvPGaRNt5tke3fPy4oYxLDlKvdvWwOV89D6CkXFwlngZbc0MqamVn1Mivu7Gk81BLGIPw8xkN7iBNWe0WoFtvkfLAbHTGR2olNfilL2VMVBIT1qwOF4EpWQg_VUPJKr_SPR/s680/march3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYYUewUKaQkRPwC92MS0MESC4ocdDlDB9LqJ10MlGADV0Ml5WvK3zEZLvPGaRNt5tke3fPy4oYxLDlKvdvWwOV89D6CkXFwlngZbc0MqamVn1Mivu7Gk81BLGIPw8xkN7iBNWe0WoFtvkfLAbHTGR2olNfilL2VMVBIT1qwOF4EpWQg_VUPJKr_SPR/w400-h400/march3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Life as a human artist in 2023 is a bit frustrating not only are our tech overlords relentlessly fiddling with their platforms in ways that always seem to give you less visibility, generative art from AI is starting to appear on the platforms where those who type prompts in Stable Diffusion or the like are suddenly "artists" and hoover up the likes and praise from those who surf the content for pretty visuals without considering the effort that goes into creating that content.</p><p>Much of the AI chat in March was about ChatGPT-4 the AI language model still in Beta that can write your emails/homework/lazy derivative opinions in seconds. Elon Musk and others were warning about the disadvantages of the unintended consequences of AI although the intended consequence of devaluing certain human tasks is also pretty horrific. This entry from March 19 with apologies to the Simpsons and Matt Groening was probably my most popular post.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLEzcSqTcFzL38JoaLiA5ngGrO4_QHP4LdfD8TbuORamfWjAxcHSZeZENv9VKCLljFJqVdT_Uw3LlFWWz4_bs4Rv6Vp_vtoY2dTdhDOjYxpy03wveyM141HloLf44jEjL2wIaXKTZtbBGmHCcOaHc5vMSYaOCE0LBsydQjwRu7DYnv7xLZMrzuEMno/s680/march19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLEzcSqTcFzL38JoaLiA5ngGrO4_QHP4LdfD8TbuORamfWjAxcHSZeZENv9VKCLljFJqVdT_Uw3LlFWWz4_bs4Rv6Vp_vtoY2dTdhDOjYxpy03wveyM141HloLf44jEjL2wIaXKTZtbBGmHCcOaHc5vMSYaOCE0LBsydQjwRu7DYnv7xLZMrzuEMno/w400-h400/march19.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>If you want to be generous to folk you would say we are still pretty enraptured by the novelty of this "free" tool not realizing that eventually it will be monetized by tech overlords so that those who provided the content the machines learned from and those who later leverage it will be lining the pockets of those who merely financed a cloud server farm with software. In the meantime if you're relying on ChatGPT beware that it's usage is throttled which inspired this illustration from March 27th </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIe4t64aaGz-_OuhxsiFDQJZbIifewDFfeGfmkMA2H5xcyRHxVFM7OSTonEoB5CW1eHs6yqXKoqoihhlccpyvhBwkyoyJpHf6SSqTPrFbcYJGrk8IbRvTQRGZdAgIo5TOLVf2cLug1nj0K737bBLCaihmcMNnlkWxkXoEDj1qGjvKy257w5uhiMwhq/s680/march27.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIe4t64aaGz-_OuhxsiFDQJZbIifewDFfeGfmkMA2H5xcyRHxVFM7OSTonEoB5CW1eHs6yqXKoqoihhlccpyvhBwkyoyJpHf6SSqTPrFbcYJGrk8IbRvTQRGZdAgIo5TOLVf2cLug1nj0K737bBLCaihmcMNnlkWxkXoEDj1qGjvKy257w5uhiMwhq/w400-h400/march27.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Back to Generative AI art vs human art. On the Instagram explore page for the hashtag you can still easily spot the AI art that has gained traction even though the competition element of the challenge explicitly banned it. Perhaps I'm a luddite for not embracing the inevitable rise of the machine learning. The Luddites are a good example of a professional craft who even with their campaigning still lost out to cheap mass produced cloth even though at the high end you might get someone to hand stitch your suit for the average Joe we're happy for robots to make mass produced consumer goods.</p><p>The established distinctive artists will still garner commissions and magazine slots but those starting out who rely on smaller commissions for caricatures, book covers etc. are going to struggle when a fast and "good enough" result can be delivered from a web site.</p><p>Who knows perhaps we'll leverage the technology is a good way to benefit society, but to do so we'll have to rein in some of the Mega Corps that are charging away with rapid AI development. This cartoon from the 30th March sums up my mood.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZfXO3szn96VTzx7j2ZBasfI2kD_pw-XRMU62FshEKexRHAH5lZW3MdjxDzq9AyJli_2QL0N4SjbXuLGuSRCTNz_opGxFJ1KeG2Li7Z_nS68YxjM8hK5jNxKQOtCI9YMklAd0DDFYuXRNdU8w8YDXwNnxHstvdF8FRisEWHpvAxBTnuZ9OVMmSWYv9/s2048/march30.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZfXO3szn96VTzx7j2ZBasfI2kD_pw-XRMU62FshEKexRHAH5lZW3MdjxDzq9AyJli_2QL0N4SjbXuLGuSRCTNz_opGxFJ1KeG2Li7Z_nS68YxjM8hK5jNxKQOtCI9YMklAd0DDFYuXRNdU8w8YDXwNnxHstvdF8FRisEWHpvAxBTnuZ9OVMmSWYv9/w400-h400/march30.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>In the meantime even if it not pulling in the big bucks there is a joy in the creation of artwork not just the social media attention for the finished article. So to finish off March here is another robot</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3pIwNL1KLrBXfK-FyRdtt2JNTCzXlf04pB1p0gAYbKCJ_4jEfSgWBIDT3t67FMZVrzvRKPDGCEqbMrsTBILW1jFYB8A7htq76zICfOxwl92NXAg_BQxG_XtZ7tBy9I_wODjthA3FZeEZbTe2ACrd9AS0KBmbfdJvUPzHMzy_DKGnf5jIFd5pXFmEo/s680/march10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3pIwNL1KLrBXfK-FyRdtt2JNTCzXlf04pB1p0gAYbKCJ_4jEfSgWBIDT3t67FMZVrzvRKPDGCEqbMrsTBILW1jFYB8A7htq76zICfOxwl92NXAg_BQxG_XtZ7tBy9I_wODjthA3FZeEZbTe2ACrd9AS0KBmbfdJvUPzHMzy_DKGnf5jIFd5pXFmEo/w400-h400/march10.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-57999926700211872992023-02-03T09:06:00.001-08:002023-02-03T09:06:31.970-08:00Hourly Comic Day 2023<p> Every Feb 1 is hourly comic day when comic creators torture themselves by attempting to post a comic for every hour they are awake. My hack since I have a job is to post every 2-3 hours and even then this year it was a struggle. Still now that Twitter has withdrawn the ability to make moments I have to preserve my 1st Feb 2023 on here for all posterity.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOemF0ADFe2STvMg2lUjOipFab8vRUoz11Sc4vvCrAbdwNbDhWP11sQuZUDbqmjBnRUdb70JMpI3LSpfobUTDv914aja8spi3GSevCrhJ7Ikq2FJbKdszXCQz5KwsdilR954UVJPysTrci-J3Skf6fwL2AFxGByDdJGMfSac7daJSkLxTSNPAv7FS/s2732/723D5E51-AF96-4719-9D3E-6A9F98BDBB18.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2732" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOemF0ADFe2STvMg2lUjOipFab8vRUoz11Sc4vvCrAbdwNbDhWP11sQuZUDbqmjBnRUdb70JMpI3LSpfobUTDv914aja8spi3GSevCrhJ7Ikq2FJbKdszXCQz5KwsdilR954UVJPysTrci-J3Skf6fwL2AFxGByDdJGMfSac7daJSkLxTSNPAv7FS/w400-h300/723D5E51-AF96-4719-9D3E-6A9F98BDBB18.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I listened to her TED talks on visual thinking and autism while I drew this caricature of her.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh718a69y9kUEDci9yVtGdEJyKq0hjwDX9V6lIywosIhkiddZRnTBVPDjMzRL2GIAiCoMmBsj8m4pc3PDl1QUIrNKpVxGpRj8LDVAZmA4j_s5_EmXtm6c1aA6IvvK3EuW67Mw73LXYPcpaPXKxgqwF-z1gpz98sFNv99upOz4-D7mERfmOXhoI6DUIL/s680/caric9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh718a69y9kUEDci9yVtGdEJyKq0hjwDX9V6lIywosIhkiddZRnTBVPDjMzRL2GIAiCoMmBsj8m4pc3PDl1QUIrNKpVxGpRj8LDVAZmA4j_s5_EmXtm6c1aA6IvvK3EuW67Mw73LXYPcpaPXKxgqwF-z1gpz98sFNv99upOz4-D7mERfmOXhoI6DUIL/w400-h400/caric9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>However the purpose of caricature resolution is to hone your caricature skills while being able to see how many other artists approach the same subject. In a way it's daunting to compare your own efforts with masters of their craft but it was ever thus on social media. It's sometimes easier when you at least have some familiarity with the subject like this one of Peter </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPnZv3utUA8Ptjo6enRs9aLnUgAvsjR66WuVfkgC9IugLJOvXBKnpYrMgRq4l-7c7ODHI51RbbgOrkUwZGTs0R0qWjbMawloSpUbfKSEiq-YpegwtNGwy2LUfBuc9mRvspl5FG8mif438lD83UCgkk2vE6kim7hjlmuwQMDJ_ue-aFNPeY4A1gMucg/s680/caric10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPnZv3utUA8Ptjo6enRs9aLnUgAvsjR66WuVfkgC9IugLJOvXBKnpYrMgRq4l-7c7ODHI51RbbgOrkUwZGTs0R0qWjbMawloSpUbfKSEiq-YpegwtNGwy2LUfBuc9mRvspl5FG8mif438lD83UCgkk2vE6kim7hjlmuwQMDJ_ue-aFNPeY4A1gMucg/w400-h400/caric10.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>So sometimes you'd never heard of them, sometimes they were famous actors and occasionally you had to draw someone who you'd drawn before which gives you liberty to try a different approach. This is Jazz age belle Clara Bow</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZROzvuY1SIrGd5W_SirrglDnox99CIkiCr4gvCl6cFoNs-RtESgNe0rUQCob3_uKUrayjGQI0oSUSrSNqismP4s3IoLozslHBs8yoCxnEOZgTZSmecJU1IFspj15zzUvkpD_FtkhFeFZRnLYXybCeC19emcPwcvYH8rD8lOme3oX4dyKFqjp5LMW4/s680/23clarabow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZROzvuY1SIrGd5W_SirrglDnox99CIkiCr4gvCl6cFoNs-RtESgNe0rUQCob3_uKUrayjGQI0oSUSrSNqismP4s3IoLozslHBs8yoCxnEOZgTZSmecJU1IFspj15zzUvkpD_FtkhFeFZRnLYXybCeC19emcPwcvYH8rD8lOme3oX4dyKFqjp5LMW4/w400-h400/23clarabow.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>In this case I feel my previous likeness was better but often with certain folk capturing their essence even if they are well known is elusive. Denzel Washington was one who many artists thought was tricky and so I was pleased I managed something workable with him.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisfRFNSmJEI9JqvRbeuOpZcyHpGfhRBLrH9cTsbeu1zysO0sDx0inb8OttEvZ4QlDBS33ItTbgXDLSYshmbP4i7_gDpnDQZDN1LWsURhx4OqnyEXrtlhSUmf8UCfHcDVGskM5m0lvfgZC5z8COJ4L_O9f8Q2XmHSPLHfJEoiHOg4QKvknhmnfornEx/s680/caric16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisfRFNSmJEI9JqvRbeuOpZcyHpGfhRBLrH9cTsbeu1zysO0sDx0inb8OttEvZ4QlDBS33ItTbgXDLSYshmbP4i7_gDpnDQZDN1LWsURhx4OqnyEXrtlhSUmf8UCfHcDVGskM5m0lvfgZC5z8COJ4L_O9f8Q2XmHSPLHfJEoiHOg4QKvknhmnfornEx/w400-h400/caric16.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>So who was my favorite - it was probably Ruth Bader Ginsburg of day 17 which without striving turned out better than I was expecting.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9pLk9O1GBkmliOVTDUu58_QOQR-tLZfX_-y-6ELIGojFMJkPwiiSBMD5ov5qUxMmb-SaYulFK1iHiONrVQ8YqgEgTLeOucN0C-uxC0Tl3gN7TOBrc-ib0Dx6RHIIh_HFqlNMz2EDHyiX5_DlwPmgW8l-R1XacHfWrMmqTBWZNjTS3Zd3IIWrAUHK6/s680/caric17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9pLk9O1GBkmliOVTDUu58_QOQR-tLZfX_-y-6ELIGojFMJkPwiiSBMD5ov5qUxMmb-SaYulFK1iHiONrVQ8YqgEgTLeOucN0C-uxC0Tl3gN7TOBrc-ib0Dx6RHIIh_HFqlNMz2EDHyiX5_DlwPmgW8l-R1XacHfWrMmqTBWZNjTS3Zd3IIWrAUHK6/w400-h400/caric17.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>You can go onto <a href="https://www.instagram.com/iscacaricatures/?hl=en">Instagram </a>and find all the awesome work on this challenge which proves there's always a higher standard to aspire to!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-81644188511981683232022-12-31T01:07:00.000-08:002022-12-31T01:07:38.162-08:0022 cartoons from 2022<p> It’s the blogmanay end of year round-up of cartoons and caricatures and what a year it was with war, plague, royal successions and puzzle games.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>1. Australian Open</b></h3><p>It's easy to forget that at the start of 2022 we were still grappling with Covid lockdowns and rolling out the vaccines. Christmas of 2021 was restricted but the big sporting events of this year were looking for ways to go ahead with spectators and so the first big sporting event of 2022 was the Australian Open. To play in the Australian Open you had to be either vaccinated or have an exemption and World No.1 Novak Djokovic was keen to increase his grand slams wins. Djokovic said he had a 'vaccine exemption' but was detained at the airport and put in quarantine while judges considered. One judge released him but was overridden by the immigration minister, lost his appeal and was deported.</p><p> While we detained he was in an immigration detention centre with 30 other asylum seekers while his supporters protested outside and the world media was focused on the outcome. Nigel Farage contrarian anti-immigration ex-UKIP politician called for Djokovic to be allowed to play while also railing against small-boat immigration across the channel. All this lead to the following cartoon that got published in Private Eye.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBR2UmFF4H2j3QWNqWkbaRSXczwribGV9fpj7ti0TcKgg79pJKZqOdeBalIF3veDvXnFrIZDZS-A7dOCcYjLE_rFq9j17t5Buyvltvj2rwW7t_9uvfHpILkmzY_6QFlcMKw9ujJapdQ-FE_WC4edfhQX-Ym0-gXk-9fRkkxQz35Y8Sy7imGzBAmd4E/s2732/F4A80584-B708-4093-8305-3A5814A3559D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2732" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBR2UmFF4H2j3QWNqWkbaRSXczwribGV9fpj7ti0TcKgg79pJKZqOdeBalIF3veDvXnFrIZDZS-A7dOCcYjLE_rFq9j17t5Buyvltvj2rwW7t_9uvfHpILkmzY_6QFlcMKw9ujJapdQ-FE_WC4edfhQX-Ym0-gXk-9fRkkxQz35Y8Sy7imGzBAmd4E/w640-h480/F4A80584-B708-4093-8305-3A5814A3559D.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">2. Wordle</h3><p>One of the biggest stories of 2022 was the trending puzzle game Wordle developed by Welsh software developer Josh Wardle and subsequently bought by the New York Times after it had became a global sensation and it seemed like everyone on Twitter and your works Teams was sharing their Wordle scores. The green and yellow squares of Wordle started appearing in cartoons and this is my attempt from the reject pile.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRQS_hmryB5AG5MH4PitTlwxT7B6caMwMt_q4Y63li4h5EoGhw4d-nhappsniumgqsj_Q8t0FMPzVF4OWNaVCkuhDe_MeGzBYcot8yefEbC5la134snuR62lt1qOEsgAI689tDbuMYtA_etbhfshSYfnm5_GF_SUG3R6dVKEtOljh_Amt_-RbQbGze/s2048/F2590A16-17F5-46A0-8A97-5583B4CC555E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRQS_hmryB5AG5MH4PitTlwxT7B6caMwMt_q4Y63li4h5EoGhw4d-nhappsniumgqsj_Q8t0FMPzVF4OWNaVCkuhDe_MeGzBYcot8yefEbC5la134snuR62lt1qOEsgAI689tDbuMYtA_etbhfshSYfnm5_GF_SUG3R6dVKEtOljh_Amt_-RbQbGze/w640-h640/F2590A16-17F5-46A0-8A97-5583B4CC555E.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3. Putin and the Special Military Operation</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">After two years of pandemic we thought 2022 would be about the recovery and going on holiday but instead the biggest story was the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin and whether it would lead to WW3 and nuclear devastation. The conflict had started in 2014 with the Russian annexation of Crimea and the Russian backed paramilitaries trying to seize the Donbass. In February there started to be reports of build ups along the borders and in Belorussia before on 24th February Putin announced a "special military invasion" and invaded.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> A large European war was for me a hard topic to produce topical cartoons on and those I produced for the reject pile were mostly based on UK worries about nuclear Armageddon as people really were worried about the escalation. It was hard to put yourself in the shoes of Ukrainians leaving a modern life like we do suddenly pushed into a nightmare scenario and have something funny or poignant to say about it. The closest I got was some political caricatures of the main protagonists like this one of Vladimir Putin as a butcher.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY-MYbzMa2XeBJuycKZ_BTJHozco0rynQvFDOBkJ3rhw_pjrtVji8CmJCO9dmn2-IvTH0cclKyVJmIO9eDZH1aYPcYSkBY-WIeCjsu0BgfYhHDvwZO1QLiw4hfHVUn8xGxS_TmfC4U5kdd2r3vs0r4ADL4dFj_KYhtErhs8J2yjlp3GhX2vTQn-_iR/s2048/5962EC17-8795-4E8F-A787-87C6995205AE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY-MYbzMa2XeBJuycKZ_BTJHozco0rynQvFDOBkJ3rhw_pjrtVji8CmJCO9dmn2-IvTH0cclKyVJmIO9eDZH1aYPcYSkBY-WIeCjsu0BgfYhHDvwZO1QLiw4hfHVUn8xGxS_TmfC4U5kdd2r3vs0r4ADL4dFj_KYhtErhs8J2yjlp3GhX2vTQn-_iR/w400-h400/5962EC17-8795-4E8F-A787-87C6995205AE.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>4. Ukraine - Zelensky</b></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The perceived wisdom at the time was given the huge material advantage that Russia had Ukrainian resistance would collapse after a few days and and they would roll into Kyiv and partition the country. With hindsight there are lots of reasons why that didn't happen not least the terrible planning of the Russian invaders, but the other factor was the resistance of the Ukrainians lead by former comedian/TV star Volodymyr Zelenskyy who when Kyiv was threatened defiantly stayed in place to reassure the populace. This is less caricature and more of a portrait but it captures some of that defiance I hope.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxrD8TOXxOl4D1C6zZnID-qVQCFmhOI2UNgIliuip_v6n4W2ztoZBM2FKvzz1-ItcgvI0EXM64LS7UdNLeY4HVnpl23MSBfOcufJZP4m4Q36RLLmb95miG8y6DTSGKf8zbvBPOvDElUf4wWSnS9c74-AovaQcUNcgvc2A2qJ3M7WPIntTYdBuaf942/s1230/F24A8602-9478-483A-A42D-13CF74A1AE20.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1230" data-original-width="1230" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxrD8TOXxOl4D1C6zZnID-qVQCFmhOI2UNgIliuip_v6n4W2ztoZBM2FKvzz1-ItcgvI0EXM64LS7UdNLeY4HVnpl23MSBfOcufJZP4m4Q36RLLmb95miG8y6DTSGKf8zbvBPOvDElUf4wWSnS9c74-AovaQcUNcgvc2A2qJ3M7WPIntTYdBuaf942/s320/F24A8602-9478-483A-A42D-13CF74A1AE20.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: left;">5. Heating costs</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The cost of energy was an ongoing theme throughout the year as gas and electricity bills soared to the point where governments had to intervene. While Putin did use turning off the gas taps as a way of trying to stop Europe supporting Ukraine there were other structural issues in the market that meant consumers were faced with staggering bills leading to high inflation. This cartoon from the reject pile was drawn at the start of the year but was relevant for most of it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivsfXMIpwVLG41wVx91Jvc8W6EstfsyKLq2NAmKWa9A5xotPqtXxlKJBh_y2mSWsosPL9vj4HrAsh-AVOhddw6HFyg-6N-m_xmZIoa2xuCo7hyqph12VDM2jTp0jD-48fExmsVihFdYoqpMKxUzcazy7EqcqWGnk8-HZ1eryarYmSPIis1bEPkd_vT/s2048/4F393A88-6CCE-408B-BB21-24CA66E3BA71.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivsfXMIpwVLG41wVx91Jvc8W6EstfsyKLq2NAmKWa9A5xotPqtXxlKJBh_y2mSWsosPL9vj4HrAsh-AVOhddw6HFyg-6N-m_xmZIoa2xuCo7hyqph12VDM2jTp0jD-48fExmsVihFdYoqpMKxUzcazy7EqcqWGnk8-HZ1eryarYmSPIis1bEPkd_vT/w640-h640/4F393A88-6CCE-408B-BB21-24CA66E3BA71.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: left;">6. Wim Hof Freeze the Fear</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Somewhat related to heating there was a strange cult-ish show called 'Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof' that featured a bearded Dutch motivational guru who liked being called alongside Holly Willoughby (who features again later) and Lee Mack jokes who took various B-list celebrities on a journey to overcome their fears through ice baths. I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one using this in topical cartoons but this one wasn't published.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1lwo3w2SVv7Pd70y318K3dZJswiUnGn8bp6TeYooyzVKV2ayQl1lHeGH7PRFKfKxzOwX_U3LOuWuXNYmoBO_3U_Q0wYbc_JgQC6cSoit02wpqZplSmf9S6ZOfXru_L7eq5gcWvFdb1bDm1ZgMYS8dALtz9fQtbJxeo_pOAmSa-E_7CnP80lt-YjFz/s2048/D02E0A7F-8036-4575-85C4-C5363FB11948.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1lwo3w2SVv7Pd70y318K3dZJswiUnGn8bp6TeYooyzVKV2ayQl1lHeGH7PRFKfKxzOwX_U3LOuWuXNYmoBO_3U_Q0wYbc_JgQC6cSoit02wpqZplSmf9S6ZOfXru_L7eq5gcWvFdb1bDm1ZgMYS8dALtz9fQtbJxeo_pOAmSa-E_7CnP80lt-YjFz/w400-h400/D02E0A7F-8036-4575-85C4-C5363FB11948.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">7. Crypto crash</h3><div>In the world of technology AI was beginning it's takeover of all our jobs but crypto currency the other favourite of tech-bro grifters had several crashes including later in the year the collapse of trading platform FTX. Maybe there will be other more successful uses for the blockchain rather than endless inventions of crypto coins but 2022 wasn't a great year for those who bet on it. Here was a cartoon from the reject pile on the subject.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdZrAxJRSTL4W9ev4bedvDcPlV8IMd-oMuBkMiMndXMfbEVUh9FWzcgOi0IAdQp7ENiTxMwytF-S0ooyeLOxQwQv0Vo7YsSKVMPPItY5yhmeOZHQqWxWNrgnX0xNYWDQ3XYMAUgVd5ZStwCEya_4vCf6sOafX1fOsjOO2yiqXneI_ibSRqOiyav7du/s2048/CE8372AC-4FEB-4D44-B3AC-9D8455FA9A0A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdZrAxJRSTL4W9ev4bedvDcPlV8IMd-oMuBkMiMndXMfbEVUh9FWzcgOi0IAdQp7ENiTxMwytF-S0ooyeLOxQwQv0Vo7YsSKVMPPItY5yhmeOZHQqWxWNrgnX0xNYWDQ3XYMAUgVd5ZStwCEya_4vCf6sOafX1fOsjOO2yiqXneI_ibSRqOiyav7du/w400-h400/CE8372AC-4FEB-4D44-B3AC-9D8455FA9A0A.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">8. Flight delays</h3></div><div>After several years of thwarted international travel due to Covid there was unleashed a pent up demand for foreign holidays which involved airline travel. Unfortunately the aviation industry had spent most of the pandemic parked on taxiways and had shed lots of stuff in order to stay afloat so when demand suddenly ramped up and with extra Brexit and Covid checks for getting various places there were long queues at airports that made the news. This cartoon I drew in June was in Private Eye.<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp_b1ZRrxR7Ej8unJfL4X9y_GUzx8nSL17BACtW82kLqn4Ew9jeq6LN_jInG9pv68q5GEEga6yueEDzMeoBzMEZK0LGyzhRz-M45-Bibuclflll6mdHYuUhp5O44L3rNpXRh-dY7dxZTIhMn2dLy1UdeGAZqkl0ZJXGE3G32kVwDr3yxyAjJkHvtdb/s2048/AF669F78-24BA-44DE-9EF2-2730AE66A292.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp_b1ZRrxR7Ej8unJfL4X9y_GUzx8nSL17BACtW82kLqn4Ew9jeq6LN_jInG9pv68q5GEEga6yueEDzMeoBzMEZK0LGyzhRz-M45-Bibuclflll6mdHYuUhp5O44L3rNpXRh-dY7dxZTIhMn2dLy1UdeGAZqkl0ZJXGE3G32kVwDr3yxyAjJkHvtdb/w400-h400/AF669F78-24BA-44DE-9EF2-2730AE66A292.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">9. Summer holidays</h3></div><div>We were amongst those going abroad for a bit of sun but then Covid restrictions were easing and sometimes you had to wear masks and in other occasions you were in crowds for the first time when no-one was masking. I drew this cartoon after our holiday in Spain and it appeared in Private Eye.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirQ96ixHTOGeEf0ZADYcVaJ1RJSdDhrWot0JoBczlBhVsD3pXO7WRxu0kaJ1fCdk_mlTEJB7z15zGT8i3vPdsoavvu80v3zjxuhd1ON6rjbBKJGw5kue6d_ooAJyqS5etVt2Nb8jD7z4ikscyH-psLvAeokGS-W5-V1Tu9tPguJuMr5XEQXOAcUd5E/s2048/01991F58-ABD3-4884-8FC8-443CA6D9BDEE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirQ96ixHTOGeEf0ZADYcVaJ1RJSdDhrWot0JoBczlBhVsD3pXO7WRxu0kaJ1fCdk_mlTEJB7z15zGT8i3vPdsoavvu80v3zjxuhd1ON6rjbBKJGw5kue6d_ooAJyqS5etVt2Nb8jD7z4ikscyH-psLvAeokGS-W5-V1Tu9tPguJuMr5XEQXOAcUd5E/w400-h400/01991F58-ABD3-4884-8FC8-443CA6D9BDEE.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">10. Cost of butter</h3><div>When drawing topical cartoons you're often looking for the trending topic and a different angle on a long running subject like Covid, political turmoil or in this case the cost of living crisis. Inflation was rampant all year and people started to notice it in their grocery shops especially when butter like Lurpak had security tags because it was suddenly so expensive. This was my cartoon from the reject pile on the subject.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpsGPKzyDGBENHwzLNzLdfvIp-jteXcTjP7mX1L2lo58SKOZW_l3Rx96Q8-FDXFTP3955nUO4JFmv5IhZqtAmCowYcV520bLgGIEAYyQJNhXCuMSH_iT8182o1l_miIvisSiISRp9iam5Wpos1Iy0HAm52qZ0T_OUF-c7soYBqYIyUleHy98i-UG7z/s2048/4092DCE3-3767-4208-BFDD-76A935C9F923.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpsGPKzyDGBENHwzLNzLdfvIp-jteXcTjP7mX1L2lo58SKOZW_l3Rx96Q8-FDXFTP3955nUO4JFmv5IhZqtAmCowYcV520bLgGIEAYyQJNhXCuMSH_iT8182o1l_miIvisSiISRp9iam5Wpos1Iy0HAm52qZ0T_OUF-c7soYBqYIyUleHy98i-UG7z/w400-h400/4092DCE3-3767-4208-BFDD-76A935C9F923.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">11. Social housing</h3></div><div>With people struggling the cost of rents and the availability of affordable housing was also an issue especially when house builders seemed to always prioritise luxury housing. Government would always say they had a plan, a target or new scheme for fixing it without evidence of very much changing. Here is a cartoon I had in Private Eye in the summer on the issue.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimxcXnUX2hybvrPEk8EfaVuLOujBff9vUfnjiDnEFviCGzE9ADO3amVtKlPiVHYkEj4jltn7xrW8GadZmDxECfKfLhu0rfKKwvy-EHc1ucx9h3apvIcYyZ2y1zFbL0l0Z5KAtEZtpT2nfA9YNSI6mkMBzZXlGC88fG3tf0RbBWrQRhHx2dnLfoAotP/s2048/031DC98B-80D5-4744-8438-DF92BB09D6C4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimxcXnUX2hybvrPEk8EfaVuLOujBff9vUfnjiDnEFviCGzE9ADO3amVtKlPiVHYkEj4jltn7xrW8GadZmDxECfKfLhu0rfKKwvy-EHc1ucx9h3apvIcYyZ2y1zFbL0l0Z5KAtEZtpT2nfA9YNSI6mkMBzZXlGC88fG3tf0RbBWrQRhHx2dnLfoAotP/w400-h400/031DC98B-80D5-4744-8438-DF92BB09D6C4.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">12. Chess robot broke fingers</h3><div>Sometimes you draw topical cartoons on subjects so niche you'd be surprised if they get taken. In July in Moscow a chess playing robot broke the finger of a 7 year old child so I drew a cartoon on the subject that didn't end up anywhere. Later in the year there was cheating controversy in chess when world No.1 Magnus Carlsen suggested one of his opponents a 19 year old American grandmaster was probably cheating leading to all sorts of analysis of his games and bizarre theories on what methods were used.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmITirFB44_m0Gd5dzbDF53_5zoJ3yT8XGWyTPG99DvaSc6vjGuqPLXDwOwMys_2GVVLdl4N7NsRhtItdqnrJnJQdKuq5-wNwPKWz5-k9bzXn3KYAB155aMHFnZTp48DA-q91767oYP3SUb_We8YlhaRSYjjUE-e0IoLichJNTA1VHNctXyvbGuK99/s2048/1DB27603-E37B-4D28-8C7A-7E5CA4E4341F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmITirFB44_m0Gd5dzbDF53_5zoJ3yT8XGWyTPG99DvaSc6vjGuqPLXDwOwMys_2GVVLdl4N7NsRhtItdqnrJnJQdKuq5-wNwPKWz5-k9bzXn3KYAB155aMHFnZTp48DA-q91767oYP3SUb_We8YlhaRSYjjUE-e0IoLichJNTA1VHNctXyvbGuK99/s320/1DB27603-E37B-4D28-8C7A-7E5CA4E4341F.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">13. Boris Johnson resigns</h3><div>It was not a normal year in UK Westminster politics. The partygate scandal that broke the previous year continued through the first half of 2022 with Boris Johnson apologising several times and endless speculation on whether his premiership would survive. One of the crux points was when the Sue Gray investigation was paused just at the point when it would be published so the police investigation could take precedence. Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and others got fixed penalty notices, every PMQs became a chorus of call for Boris to do the honourable thing until a day of resignations finally put an end to the delusions that Bojo could carry on. This is an illustration I did of him hanging on for dear life.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk59M3bJWWVjLXX-xgg4Uj7i0m7v2kPGnjwPCOwxPwFBLRti74XLEI8LxGVJ2o6iLqros9GC4lqZ4d88rsQgXUoF_HOEyqzQrgYLyK1ZhOfFAkweSS_zl20K8TWhYtNzaU-KcKp_eQxCDrUJYvOYax_EeUwVE_68y56aIy9oFJMdTW4XBW12nJw4hJ/s2048/A276CA7E-406C-4FF1-B694-7D2128CB5046.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk59M3bJWWVjLXX-xgg4Uj7i0m7v2kPGnjwPCOwxPwFBLRti74XLEI8LxGVJ2o6iLqros9GC4lqZ4d88rsQgXUoF_HOEyqzQrgYLyK1ZhOfFAkweSS_zl20K8TWhYtNzaU-KcKp_eQxCDrUJYvOYax_EeUwVE_68y56aIy9oFJMdTW4XBW12nJw4hJ/s320/A276CA7E-406C-4FF1-B694-7D2128CB5046.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">14. Leadership Contests</h3><div>In recent times there have been more Tory Leadership contests than there have been election with two alone in this year where Sir Graham Brady is the pompous ringmaster as a large gang of wannabes is gradually whittled down to a finally two who tour the Conservative countryside promising whatever their audience wants them to hear and then electing the least realistic of the two as the next PM.</div><div> After Boris Johnson was ousted Rishi Sunak who was seen as one of the main plotters stood for the leadership but the membership seemed to want almost anyone else including lots from the right wing. For a while it looked like Penny (I was in the Navy) Mordaunt was going to be in the last two but somehow Liz Truss managed to hang in until she got to spend the summer suggesting she could just ignore the first minister of Scotland and magically produce economic growth by going against the consensus. She won.</div><div> I used the leadership challenges as a time to practise drawing people who might get to be PM (and Tom Tugendhat). This is from one of those debates and while everyone isn't perfect I like my sketchy Rishi, Liz and Penny.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwvA3LzIEjssh-ToarlwujRr84tOBzLgBAWAFBKfhvhAyd7Nbx_NKLukocqXERrt1tuvQZqP4NQZpazqwNq8QiwKJqmYQwGccWiDZzpq21P5KBpsWYui3paAt37uy3mNIRidT4eJjkX1IHvuu7TW512GwTllCbSnH1R941882mYk1kf-uAe5uyl2hU/s2048/4DEF1DF7-1DED-494C-8427-C6EF0AE03795.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwvA3LzIEjssh-ToarlwujRr84tOBzLgBAWAFBKfhvhAyd7Nbx_NKLukocqXERrt1tuvQZqP4NQZpazqwNq8QiwKJqmYQwGccWiDZzpq21P5KBpsWYui3paAt37uy3mNIRidT4eJjkX1IHvuu7TW512GwTllCbSnH1R941882mYk1kf-uAe5uyl2hU/w400-h400/4DEF1DF7-1DED-494C-8427-C6EF0AE03795.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">15. Mini budget</h3><div>One of the least funny political stories of the year was Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's ill-conceived Mini Budget of 23rd September. Shortly after Liz Truss became PM in a not official budget her friend the new chancellor went on a tax-slashing rampage mainly benefiting the wealthier (the abolition of the 45% high tax rate a classic example) without any OBR assessment. Immediately the pound tanked against the dollar, the Bank of England had to intervene and Kwasi Kwarteng went on the Sunday shows to promise more fiscal surprises were coming.</div><div> Rarely have you seen such disasterous policy deployed leading to a spectacular government implosion which lead to various row backs, Kwasi being replaced by Jeremy Hunt and eventually Liz Truss having to resign.</div><div> This is my favourite illustrations I did of those crazy/Kwasi times.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnEiRx3u05g1zW294-KZ_BWhg3O7X_bfGK25iuw9TeN1ZOdvfRrcH90cj5c3YiaFqo2mgYKSwfN3JHMfqO0a4GXm_L7XBpXGfaB5EjF-TTaBym-4wokkfD_5rNxYDbGysxAU-7fjzIRKoY-Wg9P4GKChjzMmEOjZN-ahTE28eyDAVFdBcIZ56oj4E/s2048/4B8D6E57-0D30-46BE-A483-81AB81640868.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnEiRx3u05g1zW294-KZ_BWhg3O7X_bfGK25iuw9TeN1ZOdvfRrcH90cj5c3YiaFqo2mgYKSwfN3JHMfqO0a4GXm_L7XBpXGfaB5EjF-TTaBym-4wokkfD_5rNxYDbGysxAU-7fjzIRKoY-Wg9P4GKChjzMmEOjZN-ahTE28eyDAVFdBcIZ56oj4E/w400-h400/4B8D6E57-0D30-46BE-A483-81AB81640868.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">16. Italian election</h3><div>Lots of big stories broke at the same time in the Autumn and my only cartoon in Private Eye at the time was about far-right leader Giorgia Meloni winning an election in the Italy and hoping to set up a government of various right wing parties.</div><div> This was my Private Eye cartoon from that time.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIzbv_kpZ7qSChS0fCCG49NLbuYP5T_RWX0oDM3SFissTmIpAR3LxGje8fSCCLd6-UWLBW_8zx9XkSiR8AReseuJGmXYIhL4kXUpohdbmj2PCZ7UMSfTtDQPpdqWtfiQPolX0ec5NdVZZbSajs4tL7Zm9XA5LteLET9Rt-WFYxv2YywVck0GTHCQTB/s2048/7D1F040D-C445-4D0E-A924-7CE904AB84A4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIzbv_kpZ7qSChS0fCCG49NLbuYP5T_RWX0oDM3SFissTmIpAR3LxGje8fSCCLd6-UWLBW_8zx9XkSiR8AReseuJGmXYIhL4kXUpohdbmj2PCZ7UMSfTtDQPpdqWtfiQPolX0ec5NdVZZbSajs4tL7Zm9XA5LteLET9Rt-WFYxv2YywVck0GTHCQTB/s320/7D1F040D-C445-4D0E-A924-7CE904AB84A4.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">17. The queue</h3><div>On the 8th September 2022 Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral and a period of national mourning began. The queen's appearances earlier in the year had been much reduced even at her Platinum Jubilee that was labelled "platty-jubs" by some, and her son opened parliament. I recall announcements that she wasn't well, various Twitter rumours about when Operation London Bridge would occur before a sombre Huw Edwards read out the official news.</div><div> There was a couple of weeks of mourning with no comedy shows and various sporting and cultural events postponed. All the documentaries and obituaries were well prepared and run on TV channels until various official lying in states occurred first in Edinburgh and then in London.</div><div> Britons love a good queue and soon the coverage of the queue to see the queen's coffin in Westminister Hall yielded various stories to feed 24-hour news. Every popular thing gets co-opted by celebrities and soon it was a badge of honour to be a celebrity who waited the full 20+ hours in line with the commoners like David Beckham. Conversely Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby were vilified for appearing to jump the queue although in various apologies they tried to justify it by saying there were offical journalists for ITV This Morning.</div><div> I drew this cartoon from this time featuring Paddington bear who somehow became the British Charon the boatman escorting the Queen across the Styx.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyCmNpjaTQD758w7cu7GVthLwvQAmuP-XQgpEeipL56pmRKfghRmQltAXQz3g4G_ULjKioMOV9a3jxzmc4oUaOd7TxOg3gyqNjb35fRl47HJioT5ln3qYqKaxD8J0LgrfTg6gHubvCvoJDmg_nMkt706QMRFNoJLTf3lwIaTBNxR3fBI7dt7PvdJr5/s1230/869C3C37-9A36-4110-90B7-0F45A2816D6F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1230" data-original-width="1230" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyCmNpjaTQD758w7cu7GVthLwvQAmuP-XQgpEeipL56pmRKfghRmQltAXQz3g4G_ULjKioMOV9a3jxzmc4oUaOd7TxOg3gyqNjb35fRl47HJioT5ln3qYqKaxD8J0LgrfTg6gHubvCvoJDmg_nMkt706QMRFNoJLTf3lwIaTBNxR3fBI7dt7PvdJr5/w400-h400/869C3C37-9A36-4110-90B7-0F45A2816D6F.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">18. King Charles III</h3><div>One wondered if Prince Charles would become King Charles III given what happened to the previous King Charles (the first was executed, the second dissolved Parliament). Having not exactly been the hero of Netflix The Crown people wondered how King Charles would come across to a public who had only ever known his mother.</div><div> There is however no election of monarchies and before too many republicans could protest the ascension was a done deal and Britain had a new King. This is my caricature of King Charles III.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK00jMhsNNun-Juenqxltq1Chm2pjK2EjzoR5gVDjZx7wxR3Ck5XZjmYElUgbdbxB27o97kB9fQMTqLOP0z4c2R2HN7xJrhzGaRvR1I0rWcyJ9eRtSMfSy3ueb3PJ1itzZ_8n1ubqeZoao2USmJqnyn4fSVHTeEK2Vj3xcJH35Dm7lbf-vqlB7K9Sk/s2048/DBE03A83-D1BB-44E4-BF66-0A6B781CE31C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK00jMhsNNun-Juenqxltq1Chm2pjK2EjzoR5gVDjZx7wxR3Ck5XZjmYElUgbdbxB27o97kB9fQMTqLOP0z4c2R2HN7xJrhzGaRvR1I0rWcyJ9eRtSMfSy3ueb3PJ1itzZ_8n1ubqeZoao2USmJqnyn4fSVHTeEK2Vj3xcJH35Dm7lbf-vqlB7K9Sk/s320/DBE03A83-D1BB-44E4-BF66-0A6B781CE31C.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">19. Elon Musk Twitter meltdown</h3><div>This was probably my most popular caricature of 2022 drawing for one of Martin Rowson's #Draw challenges #DrawElonMusk. Throughout 2022 there was speculation on when and if Elon Musk would buy Twitter and once the deal was done there were many staff laid off and much confusion as to whether the platform would survive and whether certain banned accounts like Donald Trump would be reinstated. Whenever Elon Musk does something crazy this caricature seems to pop up but despite Musk banning certain accounts that criticise him I still exist on Twitter even though I now have a Mastodon lifeboat.</div><div><br /></div><div>It remains to be seen if and how Twitter survives in 2023 with Ad revenues tumbling and the ability to buy a blue tick subscription for visibility getting mixed reviews. So many good art challenges and communities exists that I would hate to see it go.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOmZvI3IQrzS7xYocitgLv-ye5GX3GeQQ1WKEnqlhXexF_VorVxwp2VYyVR4uJOsgTwhlkmmts-sxNsF8xisOg13aOYtacAKSm-gRXqaho0qDRM0mrTBPcGQi8iFh7kCpOl-L2bH3I0filmzee3tW_jGl5XmP_ByGFbSvdSZfLrPOCqcRDT2BHgQj/s2048/BEE07B68-C1A0-4B9E-88FB-CDD6DE38AD6B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOmZvI3IQrzS7xYocitgLv-ye5GX3GeQQ1WKEnqlhXexF_VorVxwp2VYyVR4uJOsgTwhlkmmts-sxNsF8xisOg13aOYtacAKSm-gRXqaho0qDRM0mrTBPcGQi8iFh7kCpOl-L2bH3I0filmzee3tW_jGl5XmP_ByGFbSvdSZfLrPOCqcRDT2BHgQj/s320/BEE07B68-C1A0-4B9E-88FB-CDD6DE38AD6B.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">20. Iran protests</h3><div>The Ukrainian war has the ability to knock nearly ever other foreign news story off the front page but protests in Iran that arose in Iran in September after the killing of 22 year old Mahsa Amini for wearing an "improper" hijab was a significant event this year. Women in Iran nationwide protested without the hijab and demanded more women's rights and greater freedoms, but the government response was brutal with mass arrests, beatings, torture and death penalties.</div><div> Martin Rowson did another challenge to draw Khameni, the supreme leader of Iran who I drew in an hourglass with bloody handprints mostly in hope as 2023 has shown just to what lengths autocratic leaders will go to cling to power.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQiKtTkjA31CDqAhx4UEmUbTZlz66k2SwgyKztP7EMtKEghrKUluMtvVLGLlQgu-F5NUEJrWAVR2abu3wvOAZbOh_Ci7pa_gzoyruWwPwePfdxcBBxe-NszJNFi6M5-t2E-45JHl-Eka1W3koB99ax4Dzo1InYSJFYRGtPhZMRXuU5veh5BmnOstHZ/s2048/D36D83F7-8157-48F9-919A-5004F84D7CB7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQiKtTkjA31CDqAhx4UEmUbTZlz66k2SwgyKztP7EMtKEghrKUluMtvVLGLlQgu-F5NUEJrWAVR2abu3wvOAZbOh_Ci7pa_gzoyruWwPwePfdxcBBxe-NszJNFi6M5-t2E-45JHl-Eka1W3koB99ax4Dzo1InYSJFYRGtPhZMRXuU5veh5BmnOstHZ/w400-h400/D36D83F7-8157-48F9-919A-5004F84D7CB7.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">21. World Cup</h3></div><div>I'm a bloke so I like football and the World Cup is usually a big thing where I often do lots of illustrations of players but the 2022 World Cup was very different being in the tiny state of Qatar in the winter surrounded by controversy due to the way the tournament was awarded, their treatment of migrant workers and LGBT people.</div><div> This cartoon from the reject pile was an attempt to show that. I can't say that I didn't watch any of the matches and the Argentina v France final was a classic but the whole affair seemed corrupted as Salt Bae friends of Infantino wormed his way onto the pitch after the final whistle to harass Messi.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPGaWX3z0dXSTiaWw7RMMRjiXOqXb7swbvOweCk2z-6T9l5ByzU2hxYq_yTlPU1uvSWEWtLdWEdXjzZskoEG45cIRLjJEIhdZH3FC6KH89GgHJWCj7dG1f8l3AqU3BNG5xTQ94pOh26SDJOxEWRotwJevFQlbahYp0yRmStpzxgxNDYeswQgtChR6/s2048/71733BF4-728B-4EDF-9D97-24E6D8A3F9E2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPGaWX3z0dXSTiaWw7RMMRjiXOqXb7swbvOweCk2z-6T9l5ByzU2hxYq_yTlPU1uvSWEWtLdWEdXjzZskoEG45cIRLjJEIhdZH3FC6KH89GgHJWCj7dG1f8l3AqU3BNG5xTQ94pOh26SDJOxEWRotwJevFQlbahYp0yRmStpzxgxNDYeswQgtChR6/s320/71733BF4-728B-4EDF-9D97-24E6D8A3F9E2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">22. Christmas - strikes</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEJIAqPWvlQqLBY1S-2Sz05dwEjjs5BKY1FSp65IN0x04iZYtZVRctgS7qjjR0-yVnVWLUKofZK02fmAHHm8k0Ll4iMZz3XRjipuusyh-YL3r7gHojsmNKJXtX7qs4WwOHIWY4URjcquG5loshoQmxxZFI9GwFQ7dyt8zeVttPhgW7fbqQRhvc00oT/s2048/3558F751-513B-4DD8-BBA2-9E817482E7B2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEJIAqPWvlQqLBY1S-2Sz05dwEjjs5BKY1FSp65IN0x04iZYtZVRctgS7qjjR0-yVnVWLUKofZK02fmAHHm8k0Ll4iMZz3XRjipuusyh-YL3r7gHojsmNKJXtX7qs4WwOHIWY4URjcquG5loshoQmxxZFI9GwFQ7dyt8zeVttPhgW7fbqQRhvc00oT/s320/3558F751-513B-4DD8-BBA2-9E817482E7B2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>After a year of eye watering inflation and huge bills the paltry wage increases offered by some employers lead to lots of industrial action from rail workers, Royal Mail posties, teachers and nurses. The Scottish government has been slightly more inclined than Westminster to try and offer more but so far the strikes have felt like that are going to continue into a Winter of Discontent in 2023. As a result Christmas mail took longer, trains were unavailable or unreliable for a good number of days in December.</div><div> The whole point of industrial action is to render services unusable so there was a fair few cartoons about the Christmas impact including this one from the reject pile. </div><div> Unfortunately the governments wants to act tough against unions and portray workers who are asking not to effectively take a pay cut as greedy so this strife will continue.<br /><div><br /><p><br /></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-81691537747459090162022-02-04T11:49:00.002-08:002022-02-04T11:51:34.906-08:00Caricature Resolution 2022<p> Every January <a href="https://www.caricature.org/">ISCA the International Society of Caricature Artists</a> do a social media challenge to do 31 caricatures one for each day of the month. I did the challenge for the <a href="https://www.cartoonsidrew.com/2021/02/caricature-resolution-2021.html">first time in 2021</a> although I didn’t do them all, and did it again this year where I did complete it. Here is my collage of finished caricatures</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-ZXjRdW790G0QlndP4ZdlFmC_7pQ7Ou4xvwJYmpTYMWwKvGam63tzH9KnCTv1Kt2J5KY6G6g6f7YqCUHbCno3IBVMtkQUCo0GbxQewxE25QBwEeP6fP8Bp_5CZ6U74Bt6KWorSkWY2o546y9z78yuSkK1MN_hAIpg1T0Qbv79-S-s90nFOMLEZRgA=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-ZXjRdW790G0QlndP4ZdlFmC_7pQ7Ou4xvwJYmpTYMWwKvGam63tzH9KnCTv1Kt2J5KY6G6g6f7YqCUHbCno3IBVMtkQUCo0GbxQewxE25QBwEeP6fP8Bp_5CZ6U74Bt6KWorSkWY2o546y9z78yuSkK1MN_hAIpg1T0Qbv79-S-s90nFOMLEZRgA=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The time spent on each depended varied from 30 minutes to a few hours. To pick out a few of my favourites</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-GG5J2XyzOhS58wjMmh0pYvuX96J0b-MBYGaIWIz3dc1OnEh1CP9YT_vwSLgOGqDGd1vvZ_KDL7ykuiit9K5n_qpBtDBjYbZ4ESFKkYmq3CnJbfrOTHbbXjZH2yCPeUwQZYBirurUjpgW2IDPqQsPF2T1kKgZBnZMXNRuSRzfPK2r6gAOvRXeXiMZ=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-GG5J2XyzOhS58wjMmh0pYvuX96J0b-MBYGaIWIz3dc1OnEh1CP9YT_vwSLgOGqDGd1vvZ_KDL7ykuiit9K5n_qpBtDBjYbZ4ESFKkYmq3CnJbfrOTHbbXjZH2yCPeUwQZYBirurUjpgW2IDPqQsPF2T1kKgZBnZMXNRuSRzfPK2r6gAOvRXeXiMZ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Steve Buscemi</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWVxcqFj03tTSZU9b1tW_5h7hTdj3cYeVCYtqIti2CkJ7xqWf1yisOqQuRPHFkniloK8rbtMs2itUL60n-WHef_27S0JbTeJDIsJyBsgCozPi-LBZxmfk9jvvgJkGEdvm7Ecm2u2vNuYUqTO9tWEGp6YoJIRNThQ7t0BHP5tlLZ1fYksYnvrk8AgGN=s1440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWVxcqFj03tTSZU9b1tW_5h7hTdj3cYeVCYtqIti2CkJ7xqWf1yisOqQuRPHFkniloK8rbtMs2itUL60n-WHef_27S0JbTeJDIsJyBsgCozPi-LBZxmfk9jvvgJkGEdvm7Ecm2u2vNuYUqTO9tWEGp6YoJIRNThQ7t0BHP5tlLZ1fYksYnvrk8AgGN=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Chris Evans</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTlGgEAY43TTmVGeMdYSmF31Mo4HQ3_hWhWiYROM9Hh_uufmBTfon1KGQMqmJMJmEHTeDCt4i8p2Lv5CHw0IF5TfTd_zJL8tWwtcnGe-Gx8jSCos1CQeP0wQuWoL3fzPWpzCd-alTNvxWN1j-RsWnlxIudNGqo1z_USvg9ngr9OY8EmZn7rwB3Ecni=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTlGgEAY43TTmVGeMdYSmF31Mo4HQ3_hWhWiYROM9Hh_uufmBTfon1KGQMqmJMJmEHTeDCt4i8p2Lv5CHw0IF5TfTd_zJL8tWwtcnGe-Gx8jSCos1CQeP0wQuWoL3fzPWpzCd-alTNvxWN1j-RsWnlxIudNGqo1z_USvg9ngr9OY8EmZn7rwB3Ecni=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tom Hardy</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinfk-MK1DxoCcOm50zpRbNw67L-54pzg5ETBqJIkQqE5-Fs43D9MFFmjCUUpkb1IjOZ8ukIvQWgLIA_n0xe8mM5B3GbPn3RoU4nICgj5XDAVxsNI7TYhYUg4RAV1px7xfCBGPL_d810Ejkt4hSx-c2amtf93YCQm5huWZuiP6b6M-v3qnhEyd5opEa=s1440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinfk-MK1DxoCcOm50zpRbNw67L-54pzg5ETBqJIkQqE5-Fs43D9MFFmjCUUpkb1IjOZ8ukIvQWgLIA_n0xe8mM5B3GbPn3RoU4nICgj5XDAVxsNI7TYhYUg4RAV1px7xfCBGPL_d810Ejkt4hSx-c2amtf93YCQm5huWZuiP6b6M-v3qnhEyd5opEa=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">James McAvoy</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsmQlRMlLuwxraPfyBO5Av5Qh5D8enR24-ZeVKw3svvoKjjglQUydK5ccUxYyDP3APNj8halBPGbkgv49hOVQybRc74pNdWct-Ie3ag0ACblCKeuFlA9VaMS-wfEi_eoIikBCtpmEI8uMk1aegiuUCo7A-_xg5VCT-DVnm6m7ViPYvMIq25LEkCe0M=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Zendaya</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiy4IjL3mKZ_oT041wnm7eSEcvlhTmER1s0ooSc-MrVLRVAXBAvxm88P8_a88hWeseN-X7S-ZvgLQ7PF_Vpst5ju5mZq6RcQcdzC3W8UwedWZhmNaYAJW78KZg2l-MSfgrp8ng4fwQc8V5TapWDEEStcV5LQ-Z1uXkQHbTT7Eq18LYiyH3TQ7MpUNQk=s1440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiy4IjL3mKZ_oT041wnm7eSEcvlhTmER1s0ooSc-MrVLRVAXBAvxm88P8_a88hWeseN-X7S-ZvgLQ7PF_Vpst5ju5mZq6RcQcdzC3W8UwedWZhmNaYAJW78KZg2l-MSfgrp8ng4fwQc8V5TapWDEEStcV5LQ-Z1uXkQHbTT7Eq18LYiyH3TQ7MpUNQk=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rachel McAdams</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjatWPGyEEaq6RielzC3xyEYkxL3QGAdSHL-K_0YFc73UnyTtlDqTbLRQALqeF9iJGp1-pVQ1YwXBstiOjiExssK4xdG_2aZ2Z9V45ouI9TymodA_kWr5r76ynKlzTETCxg728Q-AX0fLCVZGDZhbxZzWxFjjmjuSwEQ7gQryNOUmp2lpOn6H3LyGwo=s1440" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">David Spade</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-77799249297712713582021-12-31T03:34:00.002-08:002021-12-31T03:35:25.171-08:0021 cartoons from 2021<p> Its time for the end of year big blogmanay round up of cartoons I had published in Private Eye and other rejects ad notable doodles. If 2020 was the year when I transitioned from drawing mostly Brexit to drawing Covid-19 then 2021 in terms of what got published was almost entirely pandemic related with vacations, vaccines and variants. In my 21 cartoons I will try and sprinkle in some of the other notable events that managed to break through together with an awful lot of waffle.</p><p><b>1. Trump Insurrection</b></p><p>One of the biggest story of the year happened just days into 2021 on January 6th when a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building which was in session to formalise the Joe Biden 2020 election victory. Trump had endlessly told his supporters the election was stolen by the Democrats and he wanted his Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the result. When he didn't the mob descended on the building, breached the cordon and live on TV we watched them inside the building. They didn't manage to stop the presidential transition there were causalities, injuries and damage both to the building and the idea of American democracy.</p><p>This cartoon wasn't even drawn in 2021 it was from November 2020 when Trump was fervently denying a Biden victory. I didn't miss drawing Trump in 2021 even though I'd got used to it and Biden was harder to capture.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGwBQMKU3Y2ny6UJnsWUjfiUzx4eSYTTFBQLGn1fWHOZUTmTBt3ksq5sGjEJg1QYoKGN4O4GUlx3Jc7ziDgjKQWO_a4NtlsFNwbvu-fNj25nRy5ik1db1h-ClsPOTPJURPLvYKRv04NVg9fk13ZbKWnfu-vIV1otAw04jTXj-_zfnKHQ7HMUOdw6H7=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGwBQMKU3Y2ny6UJnsWUjfiUzx4eSYTTFBQLGn1fWHOZUTmTBt3ksq5sGjEJg1QYoKGN4O4GUlx3Jc7ziDgjKQWO_a4NtlsFNwbvu-fNj25nRy5ik1db1h-ClsPOTPJURPLvYKRv04NVg9fk13ZbKWnfu-vIV1otAw04jTXj-_zfnKHQ7HMUOdw6H7=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><b>2. Perseverance</b></p><p>On February 18th there was a new NASA rover on Mars called Perseverance which had a cool landing and its own helicopter. It was the biggest robot rover since <a href="https://www.cartoonsidrew.com/2015/10/curiosity-and-water-on-mars.html">Curiosity </a>and so I had to mark the occasion by drawing it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnvQQFkCkmiIuyXki9T_sD2ZQcDRZS13Y6N0cU0Jy4QbDmWx4jd9Ybfs_2S6vqy9jR1Qv-XUgc-dNtQGbez0vxQsUshBdTm7E4s4ZHZcP2-iBBjCIEOcsO3H3gm_6cDhPssg-NLxFI-eDY_xDriRu4vqgO2PM-9ZB3vrWkUmDA21psSNy7VSeN0mL4=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="900" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnvQQFkCkmiIuyXki9T_sD2ZQcDRZS13Y6N0cU0Jy4QbDmWx4jd9Ybfs_2S6vqy9jR1Qv-XUgc-dNtQGbez0vxQsUshBdTm7E4s4ZHZcP2-iBBjCIEOcsO3H3gm_6cDhPssg-NLxFI-eDY_xDriRu4vqgO2PM-9ZB3vrWkUmDA21psSNy7VSeN0mL4=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>3. Perennial Potholes</b></p><p>Every spring just like the daffodils the pothole cartoons appear with the gaping holes in poorly maintained tarmac everywhere. As a cartoonist its a seasonal cartoon topic and this was my first cartoon of 2021 to appear in print in Private Eye.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLZgtu4eNwydLWLrHLoQe4kwHVTFxGcZBIeyN0eylpDakUWq04GxM7-2haymd3x-plL4bNGriwquN4TXTjjy5i6Zwp_5I1-Z0AUHpK7WRJYvVR-ww-V3HVbhF48Ixv-k2wqR8Di6cBnEoTmMYyd_9dW1737NS-nDwyuXImu8DSenLu53o7dNeu39lj=s1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLZgtu4eNwydLWLrHLoQe4kwHVTFxGcZBIeyN0eylpDakUWq04GxM7-2haymd3x-plL4bNGriwquN4TXTjjy5i6Zwp_5I1-Z0AUHpK7WRJYvVR-ww-V3HVbhF48Ixv-k2wqR8Di6cBnEoTmMYyd_9dW1737NS-nDwyuXImu8DSenLu53o7dNeu39lj=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p><b>4. Suez Canal</b></p><p>In March the Suez Canal was blocked for 6 days when the container ship Ever Green got buffeted by wind and wedged across it. Cartoonists everywhere delighted in having a new metaphor to illustrate while authorities worked out how to clear the blockage and the cope with the shipping delays. This was my cartoon.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjd7PeVNggxAD1S5yXnarYjlkx7cF2hMNppotzCYl46sBV0ZHg699hYaoMXg1Rrowsj8aR2t28a6ztlkmqCDlzg5K26YVX6noVnnYBQPdgQnRMQCtS15oL55YLKFQkfc-mwevsMSFEpHNTmG0qt99OLK2w4QdPqOPVoKTz9xyrtFfAicpTXe5orwE7k=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjd7PeVNggxAD1S5yXnarYjlkx7cF2hMNppotzCYl46sBV0ZHg699hYaoMXg1Rrowsj8aR2t28a6ztlkmqCDlzg5K26YVX6noVnnYBQPdgQnRMQCtS15oL55YLKFQkfc-mwevsMSFEpHNTmG0qt99OLK2w4QdPqOPVoKTz9xyrtFfAicpTXe5orwE7k=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>5. Covid Variants</b></p><p>The history of Covid-19 in 2021 was really a history of major variants of the disease which were the ones that took hold among many mutations. Christmas 2020 in the UK was nerfed by a variant that arose in Kent that became known as the Alpha variant when WHO wanted to stop stigmatising the places that first sequenced these variants. Alpha caused a big wave of virus in Jan/Feb in the UK in winter and as it was subsiding there was debate about whether other significant variants would arise.</p><p>I drew this cartoon which appeared in Private Eye in April (I used Noah's flood as a metaphor for the pandemic on more than one occasion). There were reports of variants arising in Brazil and South Africa but it was Delta detected in India that became the dominant variant worldwide in 2021 (although the new variant Omicron will probably replace it).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9HzUvpDhdwxsqmd7EbGEskLTZclEoaUhO6-YLGAAmbsiWRBkIF1dkI76WwBD01lNaJp_nLPwg3IhBy3yIOiHSR1tq3P8UYKkB7qIgB-Yr9EysuihWoJRVgGA4JSIae6WWYUI2GwfyF8V2AMirlkwNAZdk-35M-91LfgkN9IhCjrPbkVi89zYz0bhe=s1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9HzUvpDhdwxsqmd7EbGEskLTZclEoaUhO6-YLGAAmbsiWRBkIF1dkI76WwBD01lNaJp_nLPwg3IhBy3yIOiHSR1tq3P8UYKkB7qIgB-Yr9EysuihWoJRVgGA4JSIae6WWYUI2GwfyF8V2AMirlkwNAZdk-35M-91LfgkN9IhCjrPbkVi89zYz0bhe=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>6. The worst word of the year </b></div><div><br /></div>The worst word of 2021 was woke even though it began being banded around before 2021, this was the year it really got weaponised.<div><br /></div><div>It reminded me of the "politically correct" debates of my youth where opponents of some progressive ideals found it was easier to ridicule and exaggerate parts of it rather than engage on the issues. Certain parts of the press tired of writing the same stories about case numbers relished the prospect of starting a culture war based on some story about a charity researching slavery in its past, or the perception that old white guys weren't allowed on TV anymore.</div><div><br /></div><div>In America still smarting from an election defeat and the inquest into an insurrection, right wing Republicans also seized on the culture war and invented a bogey man of Critical Race Theory in schools to win back some seats. There was even an attempt while the BBC was being bashed to do a UK Fox News channels with the launch of GB News which thankfully ended up being an amateur operation but may still come back to haunt us.</div><div><br /></div><div>Comedians kept coming forward to say how concerned they were about being cancelled for their views. As a cartoonist I don't relish the prospect of a pile-on for some perceived offense to some group or other, but freedom of speech shouldn't protect us from criticism.</div><div><br /></div><div>My only foray into the culture war came in this cartoon that was published in the Eye in May. The conservative war on woke often pulls in religious groups which are far too aligned to political positions. In my reading of the gospels Jesus can be interpreted as quite left wing and certainly not a conservative in the way he challenged the wisdom of his time. In the published version they changed nowt to nothing which is probably better.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXrKr3QRiX_jx9B-xjCzq8y24rZQrsWnJaO4F9F5-gHEtq5KTsuzihi80Mrz60UfLm4W6N8vput8D-4BgDsmx4Sn29zOe3FakavY9YMZ-9OtNqFSpxGXLfE7UhRvyaTxyCUjMZwHPr0BEaExUCPlqZD3CZhPmuE4xducbPXZJ1zp46uRZcp6THihtd=s1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXrKr3QRiX_jx9B-xjCzq8y24rZQrsWnJaO4F9F5-gHEtq5KTsuzihi80Mrz60UfLm4W6N8vput8D-4BgDsmx4Sn29zOe3FakavY9YMZ-9OtNqFSpxGXLfE7UhRvyaTxyCUjMZwHPr0BEaExUCPlqZD3CZhPmuE4xducbPXZJ1zp46uRZcp6THihtd=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div><div><br /></div><div><b>7. Amazon vs the high street</b></div><div><br /></div><div>The home delivery firms like Amazon did a lot of business in the pandemic although there were stories about the behemoth making a loss (probably funnelled into Bezos rockets) which led to this cartoon in the Eye.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGxwt0DSGUwD2Spd9t2CKi57dPyMjc0F6V61X56e0aUl2PHKqpiSEWSgl4brHx8Zgz5qqqbJLtbwKbcGJQg7LriFhllGhW8Y2xQi_fdo8XzBoQT8MJeviaerzNYOPr6cPWcLVT2vyWlJfZw8XLTM5_AFlQyX6ZFpa7IUxBO-lQgkpJ4qF1S4Vb-Om7=s1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGxwt0DSGUwD2Spd9t2CKi57dPyMjc0F6V61X56e0aUl2PHKqpiSEWSgl4brHx8Zgz5qqqbJLtbwKbcGJQg7LriFhllGhW8Y2xQi_fdo8XzBoQT8MJeviaerzNYOPr6cPWcLVT2vyWlJfZw8XLTM5_AFlQyX6ZFpa7IUxBO-lQgkpJ4qF1S4Vb-Om7=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><p><b>8. Going on an almost holiday</b></p><p>This year could be split into two questions "Can we go on our summer holiday?" and "Can we have Christmas?". When the winter wave waned hospitality and tourism were desperate for a return to foreign adventures, but the government had to do a risk assessment on what locations were safe to visit.</p><p>The resulting traffic light system resulted in this cartoon which appeared in the Eye. While Red and Green are fairly self explanatory the existence of an Amber maybe category just led to confusion. The bus in the cartoon is a reference to the Cliff Richard Summer Holiday movie.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLKjH9WhI1qdYwvU1nsXa_IsugUyw1XXFCHRZo_Nv-_gkquZPLcoNAhP2ksPMxgMxfh8NHN5_Hi_9MFICbhDQwJwFmM2hQ_vUPz1VirJo9826lDVY9392lg2N-aoMTa8ZQB3nJbe3jJS0bGMBmDMZE4ZISyAEON6hMSd5Q8KI86ZxFYq7kVURXgGea=s1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLKjH9WhI1qdYwvU1nsXa_IsugUyw1XXFCHRZo_Nv-_gkquZPLcoNAhP2ksPMxgMxfh8NHN5_Hi_9MFICbhDQwJwFmM2hQ_vUPz1VirJo9826lDVY9392lg2N-aoMTa8ZQB3nJbe3jJS0bGMBmDMZE4ZISyAEON6hMSd5Q8KI86ZxFYq7kVURXgGea=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p><b>9. Lilliput</b></p><p>My favourite pandemic cartoon of the year showed the other side of the travel restriction conundrum where foreign governments could set the rules on who was allowed in and if they had to quarantine or not. Quarantine on arrival or when your returned was a risk you took when getting on an airplane especially when rules could change rapidly even while you were away. Thankfully we went no further than the highlands.</p><p>This cartoon depicts Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels which is the only island I can remember him visiting (there was also the opposite one of this and a few others).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh76XXnvrM7mYtE5UU2AkxrVYZgdSGeoeUYftU6d2Srh_FCTM-X8HAJieKtAjJAFUFvQ06dCUrUy1euDdd8dLb2qJ8RSSFRJDFKBBN9g55TFzT2sjL4vNPPxtOYzbWMKz4L_jtRI9-cPRvl3phNODkw8EQVe9yrVVtvx3UVvvRrThWywGT0inXp289s=s1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh76XXnvrM7mYtE5UU2AkxrVYZgdSGeoeUYftU6d2Srh_FCTM-X8HAJieKtAjJAFUFvQ06dCUrUy1euDdd8dLb2qJ8RSSFRJDFKBBN9g55TFzT2sjL4vNPPxtOYzbWMKz4L_jtRI9-cPRvl3phNODkw8EQVe9yrVVtvx3UVvvRrThWywGT0inXp289s=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p><b>10.Paycation</b></p><p>One from the reject pile shows how much more expensive everything was in 2021 with inflation starting to hit everyone in the pocket. However if you only went on one holiday in the year you were willing to pay over the odds for the privilege.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU4TuA1UO1R8IWER-ZDA8e_ehGei9A5POrU4rfvRqjNIw8M6bABd124HplCunicyGXc2QRhqTEt9WYuX2XI31lAG-F1mJC4jgyriD-aBV3vriVfgHfa7bYWh7CxZ8rWU5_aUnnQBF4OLR2eMBylBa9Q2Lrv-8qCX-itwQ0Wuj17tLtEbYmpk6RQKFt=s1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU4TuA1UO1R8IWER-ZDA8e_ehGei9A5POrU4rfvRqjNIw8M6bABd124HplCunicyGXc2QRhqTEt9WYuX2XI31lAG-F1mJC4jgyriD-aBV3vriVfgHfa7bYWh7CxZ8rWU5_aUnnQBF4OLR2eMBylBa9Q2Lrv-8qCX-itwQ0Wuj17tLtEbYmpk6RQKFt=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>11. England and Euro2021</b></p><p>This was the year of delayed sporting tournaments with the Tokyo Olympics and Euro 2020 being played in 2021. The gimmick with this tournament (apart from Scotland qualifying) was multiple countries being the hosts which meant that England could play lots of games at home and with some Sterling performances made it all the way to the final. </p><p>Being English and an international football fan the prospect of decent bloke Gareth Southgate winning a trophy should have been the highlight of my year, but as always the fans tried their best to ruin it. Firstly there was the ongoing controversy with fans booing players taking the knee (see my comments on woke) and then on the day of the final despite not having ticket they tried to force their way into Wembley. In the final Italy won 3-2 on penalties and the country went back to being grumpy.</p><p>In my cartoons for this showpiece I did not anticipate such success so I went with the delays for decisions from VAR technology which gave matches more of an American football feel with players standing around like Strictly contestants waiting to hear their fate.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLGH7fGGIkF95s4NEp7F029AJ32PCRyN5X49T2us5vwLQBQssDK_8HcSBfHE2b6zvbzgv0KcFsXIHEcStz82cU38KZW0TUkssndaRvY3KhSUuuQBstEfcLatvPLzKbBoyje2MRpxGRfV97GQ7Q647oblOOufpCwP1W9r_1uY0iVa6TklnJNG7LoYPu=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLGH7fGGIkF95s4NEp7F029AJ32PCRyN5X49T2us5vwLQBQssDK_8HcSBfHE2b6zvbzgv0KcFsXIHEcStz82cU38KZW0TUkssndaRvY3KhSUuuQBstEfcLatvPLzKbBoyje2MRpxGRfV97GQ7Q647oblOOufpCwP1W9r_1uY0iVa6TklnJNG7LoYPu=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><b>12 Andy Murray's shoes</b></p><p>Anyone who has followed my sports illustrations know I love Andy Murray but he had a frustrating year on his come back with a bionic hip although he did take some notable scalps and got into a spat with Tsitsipas about bathroom breaks. In the same match in the opening round of the US Open was another bizarre incident when he was sweaty from all his exertions, needed to change his shoes to stop slipping on the blue court and didn't have a spare pair. It was like one of my boring underprepared anxiety dreams except in real life. The Greek fought back to win prompting much Murray muttering and I sketched this as I watched.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTNhjzhtDl-LU0fOueco7l3lOFO7amXbCNfO6Ck07E-7QX18_bmggpCKnzBTtGcJGA2UYse4TfBKmUwlbkaVSCM6usoFWi2ZBz6s8eOvczRQI8FKFdCGbPc6JW832UC5qpR2Kqr2VPLVjpkDQ7gjiD3yGGxeWgr7Snau5WEHBENBoDyQkb-LLbIvL-=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTNhjzhtDl-LU0fOueco7l3lOFO7amXbCNfO6Ck07E-7QX18_bmggpCKnzBTtGcJGA2UYse4TfBKmUwlbkaVSCM6usoFWi2ZBz6s8eOvczRQI8FKFdCGbPc6JW832UC5qpR2Kqr2VPLVjpkDQ7gjiD3yGGxeWgr7Snau5WEHBENBoDyQkb-LLbIvL-=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>13 Abba reform virtually</b></p><p>The big music story of 2021 should have been Taylor Swift's brilliant music and videos but instead was obsessed with an announcement from old Swedish pop band Abba who teased coming out of retirement for the most epic of comebacks. Since my wife was a big Abba fan we watched the whole thing where super fans gathered in Scandinavia to not see the band just some videos, before only the Abba guys were in London declaring they had not only made a new album but were going on tour in one venue as holograms.</p><p>The whole hologram performance was not invented by Abba but they certainly are pushing it forward with a custom venue. It made me think of other remote virtual performances and lead to this cartoon from the reject pile.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVHMdqG2RCV33rI5nk99lQ3y1my97a7vRap_VTKegX1khDsCud5EnO6ZztlseX2aRovMxLiz89aoUBrIdzPtcBiAdDCNkYi0KyAMXCXiW0FO_kwy8y9T2qKJA42gSgS726eVJzsoNuPgcL2mP_V7Fx2ILA-UdGhhZz587wPtqR5dUD0YAHV9in9xAd=s1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVHMdqG2RCV33rI5nk99lQ3y1my97a7vRap_VTKegX1khDsCud5EnO6ZztlseX2aRovMxLiz89aoUBrIdzPtcBiAdDCNkYi0KyAMXCXiW0FO_kwy8y9T2qKJA42gSgS726eVJzsoNuPgcL2mP_V7Fx2ILA-UdGhhZz587wPtqR5dUD0YAHV9in9xAd=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p><b>14 Raducanu</b></p><p>Every so often they try to make a good tennis sports movie and you end up with something like Brit rom-com Wimbledon. If they ever wanted to make a great feel-good movie it should be about the non sweaty shoe side of the 2021 US Open where a teenager Emma Raducanu broke multiple records to win the whole thing. As well as a final between two great teenagers it was the first time a qualifier male or female had won a grand slam without dropping a set.</p><p>How do you illustrate the most epic of underdog stories with a rejected cartoon about house prices which in the lockdown era went up and up.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKlFI2oDbsd0BPAAJ1-itOn0Gccn7fL14mbZXmk6YAp36w-iyEjM1VF_IzevHtqZwhKkOxnrnbuhrEv_sT8MSPIatcA1YrhGd4ErcPltN9aXJjkVUnKLqT0h5yBPcS1OKZOxwa8xkmq2OVESRXnPvqrcPaiMXk5ZS92BVgCfRoAzpdcLYIwK5CWw56=s1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKlFI2oDbsd0BPAAJ1-itOn0Gccn7fL14mbZXmk6YAp36w-iyEjM1VF_IzevHtqZwhKkOxnrnbuhrEv_sT8MSPIatcA1YrhGd4ErcPltN9aXJjkVUnKLqT0h5yBPcS1OKZOxwa8xkmq2OVESRXnPvqrcPaiMXk5ZS92BVgCfRoAzpdcLYIwK5CWw56=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><b>15 Supermarket Shortages</b></p><p>If 2020 was the year of toilet roll shortages caused by panic buying there was a curious Brexit blimp in the autumn of 2021 when for about a week we had a fuel shortage followed by social media reports of supermarket empty shelves which was all down to a shortage of HGV drivers. This was either caused by Brexit deterring EU lorry drivers coming to the UK with the new regulations, or not Brexit according to the government and something to do with pandemic stopping keen locals from taking their HGV tests to fill the worldwide gap in people who wanted to driving trucks all day with poor amenities and conditions.</p><p>It was around the time that the Great British Bake Off for 2021 was launching so I tried a pocket cartoon sized pair of caricatures of Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood. Considering how few lines I used compared to my normal caricatures I thought it was a reasonable effort.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8pRs6pMSqA5fkfTJOE3fPEz1-LFXwV4IkdZ79T47hhTeao8Xs8DzK1_DD4eYbWU6-urR7_O0Cv63S33fbp6KbHsAaxYRKY6O44d8KwNG2MqeUZt0zwHqJCDScn_5XwhAGXyxiO5yO5F0nbBTqwls84wuohYMUP8BmYLW76UF6du_v4Xf3KJxRem71=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8pRs6pMSqA5fkfTJOE3fPEz1-LFXwV4IkdZ79T47hhTeao8Xs8DzK1_DD4eYbWU6-urR7_O0Cv63S33fbp6KbHsAaxYRKY6O44d8KwNG2MqeUZt0zwHqJCDScn_5XwhAGXyxiO5yO5F0nbBTqwls84wuohYMUP8BmYLW76UF6du_v4Xf3KJxRem71=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p><b>16 Uncontrolled migration</b></p><p>Another distressing news story of 2021 was the number of migrants and refugees trying to cross the dangerous straits of the English channel in dinghies aided by criminal gangs. The visuals of this were much more impactful than the older routes of stowing on HGVs which has reduced thanks to technology or legal routes like claiming asylum which the government seems keen on making harder.</p><p>As someone who has needed the RNLI to rescue us on a yachting mishap (they are brilliant volunteers) it was frustrating to see them dragged into a political argument as to whether we should be rescuing human beings drowning or not. The old tropes of migrants filling up the country and the French not pulling their weight seemed to drive certain portions of the populace to demand tough action be taken.</p><p>Of course we don't want folk risking their lives to get to the UK but migration isn't going to stop so there needs to be legal routes to facilitate it especially when our own actions often contribute to it like reducing foreign aid and pulling out of Afghanistan.</p><p>Here's my attempt at another view of uncontrolled migration.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy14cK6u_9XloCXpUJjZPdsTdFK0ap1gYDwmuQuQ3aUM1P2UGVXwMF2VSOtUaL-nlp2dMv7sFqd_AKLqJ-6KAsXF8dHY6xBHSZoN7SVH1eUN4r6-1Fx1OnTjR3nOi3PK_OLHPXVoaKpmWgnH5arfDA9rMkeq1Z4XRlFPMgcH95UThW_TtHjaIWUbLw=s1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy14cK6u_9XloCXpUJjZPdsTdFK0ap1gYDwmuQuQ3aUM1P2UGVXwMF2VSOtUaL-nlp2dMv7sFqd_AKLqJ-6KAsXF8dHY6xBHSZoN7SVH1eUN4r6-1Fx1OnTjR3nOi3PK_OLHPXVoaKpmWgnH5arfDA9rMkeq1Z4XRlFPMgcH95UThW_TtHjaIWUbLw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><b>17 Live with it</b></p><p>All through the pandemic the Eye has given a couple of pages to Dr Phil Hammond to provide his insights as to where we are and often that is where most of my cartoons have been printed this year.</p><p>By October the vaccine jabs were being rolled out across the population and faced with a tough winter politicians were saying we had to learn to live with the virus which is a phrase that is both obvious and almost meaningless. Living with a virus could mean anything from letting it rip to taking sensible precautions to mitigate it's worse effects.</p><p>Here is a cartoon that appeared in the Eye with my view of living with the virus.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXhMeaZ_QlTgnFq8HIxWYLIRQeJr3L9yOE_NfyzScqrj1osHTMQWzg8s8HDR59mTO8Y2CE0YjXI2vNMZhtmm_p7DVQEZpWrO-HiAcO1sDsYWOnR3CZ5PaesW-wfMF9HbXi9sOv3ERNUuHpGUT-SQZRxUzWbmGY5vZ_GiRpKIoQv5WrEloEBB3bKOhX=s1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXhMeaZ_QlTgnFq8HIxWYLIRQeJr3L9yOE_NfyzScqrj1osHTMQWzg8s8HDR59mTO8Y2CE0YjXI2vNMZhtmm_p7DVQEZpWrO-HiAcO1sDsYWOnR3CZ5PaesW-wfMF9HbXi9sOv3ERNUuHpGUT-SQZRxUzWbmGY5vZ_GiRpKIoQv5WrEloEBB3bKOhX=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p><b>18 Cop26</b></p><p>In local news politicians and activists from all the over the world came to Glasgow for a few weeks to talk about fixing the environment, before saying they would work out the details in Egypt next year.</p><p>Having big events in Glasgow is fun except for the disruption. I hadn't travelled into work that often this year but when I do I use the Clyde Expressway which was shut for the duration of the conference so no-one got near to the dignitaries. If I still lived in the West End it was slightly worse when they used the Kelvingrove museum for an event and cut folk off from their flats for a few photo ops.</p><p>Martin Rowson has been running Draw challenges on twitter all through the pandemic and one was on Cop26 when I drew this.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiq6ljODdi79ngysayouCmNVB5lV8pW0fbMY4HayDrNcGcgcm2MZDfJA-XC29r77RpWhl0L9r3Q1MOxgzwq6cNIW1sZYQ5Anyh-TljbBZb8giMFvaTs8rcS-iE8hqJvhRTLifa2rSnF6ie6awlYB00xZsybbpZGSQ018k9F95MjtL3JxLwYy4GtH2bA=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1534" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiq6ljODdi79ngysayouCmNVB5lV8pW0fbMY4HayDrNcGcgcm2MZDfJA-XC29r77RpWhl0L9r3Q1MOxgzwq6cNIW1sZYQ5Anyh-TljbBZb8giMFvaTs8rcS-iE8hqJvhRTLifa2rSnF6ie6awlYB00xZsybbpZGSQ018k9F95MjtL3JxLwYy4GtH2bA=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>19 Standards - what standards?</b></p><p>With a massive majority the tussled haired Boris Johnson got used to be able to get away with almost anything even when Sir Keir Starmer asked pesky questions at PMQs. The papers tried to highlight various times he let others pay for his wallpaper or holidays, but in the end Boris was his own worst enemy when he reopened the sleaze debate by trying to rescue his pal Owen Paterson from a fairly conclusive parliamentary standards slap on the wrist for lobbying for big bacon.</p><p>Instead of a slight ban from parliament Boris tried to rig the parliamentary standards committee by whipping his backbenches to support a Leadsom amendment, which they did and then complained how dodgy it looked causing an almost immediate U-turn and apology from those involved except the PM. The papers then went looking for more stories for MPs with extra jobs in the Caribbean or using their positions to advocate for other interests.</p><p>October was the 60th anniversary of Private Eye the satirical magazine that publishes a lot of UK cartoonists including myself from time to time. To celebrate various cartoonists tweeted their earliest cartoons to get published in the magazine. Mine was from <a href="https://www.cartoonsidrew.com/2016/12/16-cartoons-from-2016.html">2016 </a>about David Cameron and the Panama Papers scandal which seems quaint now. I remember drawing it and having it accepted before a weekend where it looked like shiny Cameron would fall except he didn't. Since then I never under estimate the ability of politicians, especially Tory ones, to brazen out uncomfortable stories. </p><p>Thus I wasn't that excited by the steady stream of sleaze stories and the only topical (rejected) cartoon I can find from this period is below and does include a jet pack.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSxsLO6PRE9fISGFn5EBG7EBDKrkAqEBzRbdNl1lw5XPvw54TOlKo-EL-w5Gmg_zwaPpxKLsN4a-FKEq7A7je6ZKVTNGSCXCSlRtZOpRX0JymGV9u6sbIFXRZ4XCC6OKiqtS9AH6YDfftVxpkIQWHqWoZNM2oF-YwgMTPZIOnB3O5qYbV3KJ3mRjxH=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSxsLO6PRE9fISGFn5EBG7EBDKrkAqEBzRbdNl1lw5XPvw54TOlKo-EL-w5Gmg_zwaPpxKLsN4a-FKEq7A7je6ZKVTNGSCXCSlRtZOpRX0JymGV9u6sbIFXRZ4XCC6OKiqtS9AH6YDfftVxpkIQWHqWoZNM2oF-YwgMTPZIOnB3O5qYbV3KJ3mRjxH=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p><b>20 Party-gate</b></p><p>Just as the sleazy standards scandals were subsiding along came another story that just ran and ran due to the government continually denying what later turned out to have supporting evidence. In 2020 when we were all deciding how little to see our relatives over the festive period, there were allegedly parties in Downing Street and government with little regard to the rules they were telling us all to keep for the good of public health.</p><p>When the Mirror and others wrote not just stories but had videos and photographs gradually there was talk of a government investigation led by Simon Case who later had to step aside due to other party allegations. We also go a throwback to the Dominic Cummings era with a garden party picture which formed the backdrop to one of my last cartoons of the year on another of Martin Rowson's Draw challenges.</p><p>Everyone does their own parody version of the 12 days of Christmas (Martin also did an excellent version) but mine tried to hit all the lowlights of the political year with some nods to Gove's raving and Sunak's sliders. It works as a song if you mangle the original a little.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi77Ii5hALsWCCIDppGvCZwHSWpoIw3GNDu3jANd4u2QsTPWYOXw7bbra8IBw9O7PDtkhL8CTqpBa3MWLEPf_C14mKFBe1VSiIC0GLaYAvGfc07omv-Jc1JTcHBMtS_6pk6ZJK503T_diKxva_WS2shDGjVwuJKiqr9KVc6V_Q4iCJjK9CModtUoiJ0=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="900" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi77Ii5hALsWCCIDppGvCZwHSWpoIw3GNDu3jANd4u2QsTPWYOXw7bbra8IBw9O7PDtkhL8CTqpBa3MWLEPf_C14mKFBe1VSiIC0GLaYAvGfc07omv-Jc1JTcHBMtS_6pk6ZJK503T_diKxva_WS2shDGjVwuJKiqr9KVc6V_Q4iCJjK9CModtUoiJ0=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>21 Three Wise Men</b></p><p>In pandemic times the build up to Christmas seems to be talked about for half the year when the first Covid to cancel Christmas stories appeared.</p><p>I have always loved drawing Christmas cartoons and when I started my cartoon blog back in 2010 I used to draw a cartoon every day of advent. One of my first was about <a href="https://www.cartoonsidrew.com/2010/12/three-wise-men-v-three-wise-women.html">Three Wise Men vs Three Wise Women</a> and since then my depiction of the three wise men has remained much the same.</p><p>So when I was drawing Christmas cartoons for the Christmas issue of Private Eye and had a wise men idea I used my favourite characters and they published it. The other very-2021 thing about it was it was another pandemic cartoon and about travel/holidays which was a recurring theme.</p><p>There are cartoon awards for pocket cartoons and when I looked through everything I got published this year nearly everything (potholes, Amazon and woke Jesus aside) was Covid-19 related although I did draw other subjects. My main hope for next year 2022 is the virus either disappears or gets less deadly and I can move to drawing pilfering politicians and troublesome tech and we can all live fuller lives.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhudPbdZ64jC-5lwVGOpZCoAM-qYCbyZl3v3qs2XvqmK7r8n4OLtJpIEmAKrhn6o9P9tdPaCAVcubHkT6BfTrJE6uNpVwmSJU6V9fh6MIKylExuk4AipNFYLOb1b_nwyb6ic_PiUvKSz7p7rPt-YuM033ieqLYVqGrKAKBVU0TmV0ceEe3YS5yW_mTB=s1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhudPbdZ64jC-5lwVGOpZCoAM-qYCbyZl3v3qs2XvqmK7r8n4OLtJpIEmAKrhn6o9P9tdPaCAVcubHkT6BfTrJE6uNpVwmSJU6V9fh6MIKylExuk4AipNFYLOb1b_nwyb6ic_PiUvKSz7p7rPt-YuM033ieqLYVqGrKAKBVU0TmV0ceEe3YS5yW_mTB=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Happy 2022 everyone.</p></div></div></div>idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-5802777495296690182021-09-01T14:07:00.002-07:002021-09-01T14:07:38.555-07:00#aughost 2021<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglijJhKoUdXQHqugB3prokfuQDvFadyvoOheRuKT6DhE1k0cbfFdukSqfoN0Z2Ve1PcSPVjgrN0-dLpd1Ol39O-RBMy1qCjYmn_4ZA3qIKKSDDE9D9UBtKEFTEsuNecevqR_6CeP9PZH8/s1024/aughost1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglijJhKoUdXQHqugB3prokfuQDvFadyvoOheRuKT6DhE1k0cbfFdukSqfoN0Z2Ve1PcSPVjgrN0-dLpd1Ol39O-RBMy1qCjYmn_4ZA3qIKKSDDE9D9UBtKEFTEsuNecevqR_6CeP9PZH8/w400-h400/aughost1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />You could do a prompt-a-day art challenge every month of the year if you wanted to there is now so many of them, Of course the most recognisable is #inktober but hang around art twitter enough and you'll see plenty of others and this year Aughost is the third I've tried (<a href="https://www.cartoonsidrew.com/2021/02/caricature-resolution-2021.html">Caricature Resolution 2021 by ISCA in January</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/search?lang=en&q=%23marchofrobots%20(from%3Acartoonsidrew)&src=typed_query">March of Robots in March </a>and now in August...)<p></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/TheRealAuGHOST">AuGhost </a>was setup by David Pietrandrea and Sommerjam as a daily drawing of something ghostly to a prompt every day in Aughost and there is tons of fun and varied artwork from artists of all stripes.</p><p>Last year I did a couple in the spare minutes before the day started but this year I spent a bit more time on my efforts and the main thing I discovered this year was how much wordless cartoons did for this sort of challenge for a couple of reasons.</p><p>Firstly with wordless cartoons or comics you aren't just making a picture but trying to tell a story without using word which has one obvious advantage that it works in any language as long as you don't include obscure cultural references.</p><p>So here are my favourites up top was a Lion King reference the circle of afterlife.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKs-g7N9Np_YGCUbMQL9LQLK8Rt6eq6guufPETlJmTZ49hB-Z3HrePMZribxZ5YIrdQvmNFzlaEoN4oCyHaPU1ND88sUzkwyA5PG956rwkPyQFETYHZgFCbwHB2d-0ZJiXbg6ySYCTb40/s2048/aughost3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKs-g7N9Np_YGCUbMQL9LQLK8Rt6eq6guufPETlJmTZ49hB-Z3HrePMZribxZ5YIrdQvmNFzlaEoN4oCyHaPU1ND88sUzkwyA5PG956rwkPyQFETYHZgFCbwHB2d-0ZJiXbg6ySYCTb40/w400-h400/aughost3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>The prompt for day 3 was lottery and one of the nice things about ghostly prompts is that you can also go for thoughtful or sad and not just the gag every time as the overall theme is quite reflective.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEaE4BHpJciNGW4TShKyLSW5KlNzIKhwGuOOm_uMv9c-4bKWJoo82lCOOdCE8KV-djTMRCfQ4g_Ptw_vOs7dQrU-4gfdOW8fi79XdD1yk9R8M2WYpNxX3tdb1uioo6HoM3Ca3Wks2SZbs/s1024/aughost21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEaE4BHpJciNGW4TShKyLSW5KlNzIKhwGuOOm_uMv9c-4bKWJoo82lCOOdCE8KV-djTMRCfQ4g_Ptw_vOs7dQrU-4gfdOW8fi79XdD1yk9R8M2WYpNxX3tdb1uioo6HoM3Ca3Wks2SZbs/w400-h400/aughost21.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Of course people are just scrolling so sometimes they are just feline like they want a cat gag to hit like on.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWfLtETiK5w94M04bf5Y5EZiBYe1NjSNyqCwLcIz0weuqx060u6OcH_REYkvoCkWKpQBgq_hQYqHJAklgMUezKbcyM1WAEGpLzdwM1f5Ptt6LWy4_NggQzGqMuquuhe0Q5LufG5ghdk3c/s1024/aughost24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWfLtETiK5w94M04bf5Y5EZiBYe1NjSNyqCwLcIz0weuqx060u6OcH_REYkvoCkWKpQBgq_hQYqHJAklgMUezKbcyM1WAEGpLzdwM1f5Ptt6LWy4_NggQzGqMuquuhe0Q5LufG5ghdk3c/w400-h400/aughost24.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Then again sometimes you want to reward folk for taking time to roam around the image. This one was on the theme cavernous and I hid contractionary signs at the top. It's relatable because everyone gets lost in Ikea.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TOkt0NnpHeaFGj3dTfHmEhfJ0dGrGLvzZiiLA51ISqErXF92kxUXczBxdCVVbyrmbHk3vFWjtBoGVezul_iiovbMvv-rNur8ArFOZFVAdLZuEf-aD6JmpBdnEMx19OZbnPCXH0jAfuo/s2048/aughost25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TOkt0NnpHeaFGj3dTfHmEhfJ0dGrGLvzZiiLA51ISqErXF92kxUXczBxdCVVbyrmbHk3vFWjtBoGVezul_iiovbMvv-rNur8ArFOZFVAdLZuEf-aD6JmpBdnEMx19OZbnPCXH0jAfuo/w640-h640/aughost25.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Sometimes the fun is just to work out something for a prompt in this case elemental in which case I came up with sometimes around Earth, Wind and Fireflies with some ghostly gardening.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-7630209510895126602021-05-09T11:25:00.003-07:002021-05-09T11:25:57.462-07:00Martin Geissler Election Special<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxQcIza66jkOfkpJ52ks_UmTXLsE4st0C_hDKp_nb36UAU4LwlINBdNuf1gNPziK9U7ztz6xaUiAx5N5n-BHiXe88zI2Nij0bIUwGGhEDRy5gfuAuIDVOUr8xhRPfozPxgdGxH38UW7Sg/s2048/778BBCFB-0D33-45EE-AB2C-48F4187EA590.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxQcIza66jkOfkpJ52ks_UmTXLsE4st0C_hDKp_nb36UAU4LwlINBdNuf1gNPziK9U7ztz6xaUiAx5N5n-BHiXe88zI2Nij0bIUwGGhEDRy5gfuAuIDVOUr8xhRPfozPxgdGxH38UW7Sg/w640-h640/778BBCFB-0D33-45EE-AB2C-48F4187EA590.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p>The Scottish Parliament elections fell in pandemic times so the 6 weeks of campaigning was a bit more muted than normal meaning all I saw of it were a few shouty TV debates and leaflets through the door. Being a bit unsure of what conditions in voting stations would be I registered to vote by the postal time for the first time.<p></p><p>The other pandemic fallout was that results instead of being released in a thrilling overnight race to be first to declare were spread over two days of counting Friday and Saturday as they could not have as many counters in the halls as before.</p><p>I missed the first day of mostly constituency results but had it on for most of the marathon 8 hours of coverage on the Saturday. For part of this I drew the host Martin Geissler (who did a good job).</p><p>As it was in the lull between most of the constituency seats being declared and the list seats announcements I even made it onto the TV where Martin had to graciously react after hours of talking to Scottish politicians</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFN0ftLDMwywCWQ1qyEE8Tj2mFrmCkQYTHsMIWYKSqppeC9jcV8AAxAUpLxQ7D7HQPXVj_P-682wdDIlYC2Gn6xmEVvvgfvnxOiA2iGM_2cfnJzTpF9AXzr_hlOMECBOt16nfbEI3Lkas/s2048/A88B9560-58B3-40B4-A6CA-6571CF86F5A6.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1504" data-original-width="2048" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFN0ftLDMwywCWQ1qyEE8Tj2mFrmCkQYTHsMIWYKSqppeC9jcV8AAxAUpLxQ7D7HQPXVj_P-682wdDIlYC2Gn6xmEVvvgfvnxOiA2iGM_2cfnJzTpF9AXzr_hlOMECBOt16nfbEI3Lkas/w400-h294/A88B9560-58B3-40B4-A6CA-6571CF86F5A6.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I paused the TV so I could show my ma I’d been on the television.</div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-27797007564049457552021-02-02T12:36:00.000-08:002021-02-02T12:36:00.645-08:00Hourly Comic Day 2021<p> Right before Groundhog Day but after the <a href="https://www.cartoonsidrew.com/2021/02/caricature-resolution-2021.html">January caricature resolution</a> caricature there is a marathon comic challenge called Hourly Comic Day (not to be confused with 24 hour comics day).</p><p>The idea on HCD (1st Feb) is to draw a comic for every hour you're awake (<a href="https://jabberworks.livejournal.com/690749.html">Sarah McIntyre explains it well here</a>).</p><p>The novelty of having to turn out a comic every hour usually fades when you're a few hours into it and you realise your family and employer probably wants you to actually achieve something other than drawing comics that day. So my technique is usually to not attempt it every hour but every second hour.</p><p>The 2021 twist is everyone is mainly indoors looking at screens so the visual variety is less than previous years (in 2019 just before the pandemic I went into town and visited a bookshop and a cafe - unbelievable!).</p><p>So here is this year's 9 part comic documenting a day under lockdown.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mZ-XXNu3FXL-uEpn-xIrqUK6-i818gjGsbN2yuipCCMrzbGcO1WM4e6bSnLypWyoeX5ZYNvTkY_4eo6gqH4VZBeMvqPYeSRhFasONUF0yJRO_u7ZpMDI-JulGHBlr73LbwHvCxII0xY/s2048/8750EB2E-1DB8-4195-9C73-9E6C7CA9AD9E.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1535" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mZ-XXNu3FXL-uEpn-xIrqUK6-i818gjGsbN2yuipCCMrzbGcO1WM4e6bSnLypWyoeX5ZYNvTkY_4eo6gqH4VZBeMvqPYeSRhFasONUF0yJRO_u7ZpMDI-JulGHBlr73LbwHvCxII0xY/s320/8750EB2E-1DB8-4195-9C73-9E6C7CA9AD9E.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Like many other monthly challenges there is a prompt of a person to draw every day.</p><p>I like caricature but it isn't the same as drawing portraits and although I have drawn a few one I quite like some of the artists on this hashtag were doing amazing work so there is clearly room for improvement. So where time allowed I vowed to try and caricature whoever came up that day.</p><p>I didn’t quite manage every day but I did do about half of them and here are my favourites.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFXGgZMUuYAiXesda1ZI-tkntB4jNjKEloovP1vIatldg6JIBTmXCJT8DENqPypLTDJVWlxleFhxCPc6R4ZlBoewMnQnf1TFraILU1_ckY2S0qrfm3k389mfR7DFy9XDDftMeNbYR2IU/s2048/9685285E-00C2-4923-80DD-B72299A1BE71.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFXGgZMUuYAiXesda1ZI-tkntB4jNjKEloovP1vIatldg6JIBTmXCJT8DENqPypLTDJVWlxleFhxCPc6R4ZlBoewMnQnf1TFraILU1_ckY2S0qrfm3k389mfR7DFy9XDDftMeNbYR2IU/s320/9685285E-00C2-4923-80DD-B72299A1BE71.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p>This is Carol Channing from the last day prompt 31 by which time I was starting to get a feel for it so I might as well start with a more polished example.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KRZ7ND4th-LkR7qJOIyVSn2hbCa8HevfzY_Pn1OKMH3QQwNdFw5dXxaKKqULI6NkR5Psx7ShKXGDp_HTfumHO0YqSKr9tmI-_944_YtTvmDTqhHhsgBvnFHj9P-PSzi7Pcp51p_qKN0/s2048/86236FD5-84D1-47C7-825D-4F9F454D575F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KRZ7ND4th-LkR7qJOIyVSn2hbCa8HevfzY_Pn1OKMH3QQwNdFw5dXxaKKqULI6NkR5Psx7ShKXGDp_HTfumHO0YqSKr9tmI-_944_YtTvmDTqhHhsgBvnFHj9P-PSzi7Pcp51p_qKN0/s320/86236FD5-84D1-47C7-825D-4F9F454D575F.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p>Here’s Daveed Davis in his Hamilton role (how I miss live theatre or any sort of cultural event).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF4dTMNO5f1p67gXRYJFdbYiIpyVBLRbON4VsfnGadzS3Gl0PXYYY-24fnzLE0HesMa7v4NN5196xQLrvqypO-OQubC6DYwZ51yfHN37HI9AzjMpx9opJzDJ_xSeD8fhbbwdP2_NJZVeU/s2048/0615D93D-F6B4-4F47-A48D-C6362AB9485E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF4dTMNO5f1p67gXRYJFdbYiIpyVBLRbON4VsfnGadzS3Gl0PXYYY-24fnzLE0HesMa7v4NN5196xQLrvqypO-OQubC6DYwZ51yfHN37HI9AzjMpx9opJzDJ_xSeD8fhbbwdP2_NJZVeU/s320/0615D93D-F6B4-4F47-A48D-C6362AB9485E.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p>Frances McDormand from her Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri role.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJq6dUV4N7CAC_V5TH4XrOqm4AE1UqCIP7o3x5QsJQBzqwK7h2tXVONmkHbNRq8_S47ZecB21WGXaRB6b9Uu98Te9430hOrPiPOQrud1YSOB2E9Hm8TklGsemrKjBgOK0FqWmet2nv53U/s2048/0DCD2F32-061F-498D-8DC0-B89A37619C69.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJq6dUV4N7CAC_V5TH4XrOqm4AE1UqCIP7o3x5QsJQBzqwK7h2tXVONmkHbNRq8_S47ZecB21WGXaRB6b9Uu98Te9430hOrPiPOQrud1YSOB2E9Hm8TklGsemrKjBgOK0FqWmet2nv53U/s320/0DCD2F32-061F-498D-8DC0-B89A37619C69.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p>Finally Martin Luther King Jnr from the 15th using a slightly more painterly approach.</p><p>Do browse the Instagram hashtag if you want to see all the amazing caricatures done by artists across the world.</p><p><br /></p>idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-43927796820117399182020-12-30T14:28:00.002-08:002020-12-31T00:59:46.591-08:0020 cartoons from 2020<p> It feels like 2020 is the year everyone wants to hate and while 2018 and 2019 dominated by drawing Brexit </p><p><b>1. White privilege and how not to do a chess cartoon</b></p><p>My first published cartoon of 2020 was a lesson in how to pay attention when drawing (especially when drawing chess). It started off as a gag about white privilege which was a big topic in 2020 but in my setup I got the board wrong which fooled no-one when it was printed in Private Eye. The magazine forwarded on some of the responses from the readership pointing out my error and printed one of them. The embarrassing thing was I should have know better when in non-Covid times I go to a chess club but here's hoping I don't make the same mistake with my next Chess cartoon.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgycEShlQQIr7iQv_cAr-BaO8IlIFBG3DUdKvxVYoyrnr4tQ-gdh07YUQVQ37PyZJNx4ug3k2noZa6dgnN0X_5JGC0QL2DiO6wiXOgfn1zd85P0GiUk4hCQhDK_Ii7GLQ8ASc4GqIhwIRY/s2048/6DF1BCA6-EDE2-4623-A952-259FA5592655.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1535" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgycEShlQQIr7iQv_cAr-BaO8IlIFBG3DUdKvxVYoyrnr4tQ-gdh07YUQVQ37PyZJNx4ug3k2noZa6dgnN0X_5JGC0QL2DiO6wiXOgfn1zd85P0GiUk4hCQhDK_Ii7GLQ8ASc4GqIhwIRY/w300-h400/6DF1BCA6-EDE2-4623-A952-259FA5592655.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>2. Crab Home ownership</b><div><br /></div><div>Looking back on 2020 nearly everything I submitted after Covid-19 became a pandemic was topical in some way as if I lost my ability to just be funny about general things. Back in February before everything changed I could still manage the odd funny animal joke like this one on crabs.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgScvxXhmkSJkBcoHHX-Wurl5m2Kb7VF8evvXkh_o0VOCHneGKAz4WUtvOrcq0MO6O20QKUO9zeD6y4iJ3mAw2PRaXG4XZDs3j31gAK4v13hZkRLXKY3XeTNPKj2OyYaJFkbFmPtlD1xxs/s2048/91341028-1A3A-4B97-A2DE-D0D8833D2732.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgScvxXhmkSJkBcoHHX-Wurl5m2Kb7VF8evvXkh_o0VOCHneGKAz4WUtvOrcq0MO6O20QKUO9zeD6y4iJ3mAw2PRaXG4XZDs3j31gAK4v13hZkRLXKY3XeTNPKj2OyYaJFkbFmPtlD1xxs/w400-h400/91341028-1A3A-4B97-A2DE-D0D8833D2732.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><b>3. Dominic Cummings and Hilary Mantel</b></div><div><br /></div><div>My other pre-pandemic Private Eye gag turned out to be quite prophetic.</div><div> Back at the beginning of the year the PM's advisor Dominic Cummings was at war with the civil service trying to get his own sort of people in key positions and causing Sajid Javid to quit as Chancellor. It was easy to think that all Whitehall was wary of him.</div><div> The last in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy by Hilary Mantel "The Mirror and the Light" was also due out at the start of March and so a topical cartoon was born from the marriage of the two stories as if often the case. Dominic Cummings would go on to be caught breaking lockdown and the PM backed him when his defence rested on a flimsy driving to Barnard Castle for an eye test excuse. After expending much political capital to keep his advisor while undermining public support for lockdown rules Cummings eventually quite after an alleged No.10 bust up involving various advisors and the PM's financée.</div><div> I vowed to finish that Hilary Mantel book in lockdown but haven’t (yet).<br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk1qQ7eceDcwqRtHkndxMgEyVw3T4j-IFFmISLKVGZZShvNjmtMm9X5P1s1VBCXb-hsNzA90EikzPZRxNpKvbYRJzVf8reM70FA2N9QqyEFmrF6uvmWZE1hKkeN1QSkj2YPU7arzseteM/s2048/83B8E175-9D86-47F9-94E7-F7D1891D987E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk1qQ7eceDcwqRtHkndxMgEyVw3T4j-IFFmISLKVGZZShvNjmtMm9X5P1s1VBCXb-hsNzA90EikzPZRxNpKvbYRJzVf8reM70FA2N9QqyEFmrF6uvmWZE1hKkeN1QSkj2YPU7arzseteM/w400-h400/83B8E175-9D86-47F9-94E7-F7D1891D987E.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><b>4. The end is ply</b></p><p>My first Covid cartoon was a not very original desert island gag about the lone survivor turning back a boat full of rescuers (others did it better). A much funnier vein to mine was in the early panic buying of toilet rolls that led to this obvious pun. Future historians will ask themselves why toilet rolls was the go to item for a paniced population - a fact that never came up in apocalyptic movies.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBgETSo27vXKTHfZlqf58HnDIspRiEzTwFwjnH_rv-mt1phG16BLtMVYNurAK8QGRVR2VrAXJC9IwHmiNt3ZOdzj-bNt8Tu_LNqkGaphLnxZPcR87wyk5ADPuCcrnAvJ6gPiUATq1Cph4/s2048/31C2BACC-65FE-43D9-BADC-9137CD3489DA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBgETSo27vXKTHfZlqf58HnDIspRiEzTwFwjnH_rv-mt1phG16BLtMVYNurAK8QGRVR2VrAXJC9IwHmiNt3ZOdzj-bNt8Tu_LNqkGaphLnxZPcR87wyk5ADPuCcrnAvJ6gPiUATq1Cph4/w400-h400/31C2BACC-65FE-43D9-BADC-9137CD3489DA.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><b>5. Early lockdown rules</b></p><p>This is my favourite cartoon I drew in the pandemic and one that made it into Private Eye. </p><p> When lockdown hit you were allowed just one bout of outdoor exercise a day in the springtime which you spent dodging other people and tutting when others didn't obey the rules. Back then the rules were simple - it was only when there was more nuance that knowing when to tut at others became harder.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-W-Pa7FhuokLMpcIZBd03FChl0KBFi-nnMyidwXBvxbPme23bc7rsPoJcec0636dgsw_iUMWtpDCy_ls_D-k9cSVX9y3y-YoWX9lZCvDCVDOUj61nZ6JkbnqysfUau1ThM-5avU3qGhs/s2048/07804CF5-D67E-4974-BA05-A35580E8091C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-W-Pa7FhuokLMpcIZBd03FChl0KBFi-nnMyidwXBvxbPme23bc7rsPoJcec0636dgsw_iUMWtpDCy_ls_D-k9cSVX9y3y-YoWX9lZCvDCVDOUj61nZ6JkbnqysfUau1ThM-5avU3qGhs/w640-h640/07804CF5-D67E-4974-BA05-A35580E8091C.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><b>6. Cut your own hair videos</b></p><p>Weeks into the lockdown as well as working out how to navigate Zoom/Teams etc. the other problem everyone was facing was managing an increasingly scruffy hairdo and how to look presentable.</p><p> YouTube has answers for everything and so the common solution was to order clippers or scissors from the Internet and then watch videos to work out how to perform a DIY/home haircut.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimhToYW3kyFUaQcrQRBewHxHFa9AKRweVauSVbB6mudMPogF3fFhzdMXkFircWgHy6fCCditc926vr7TRiNtpzT-jnq3VRBFnqJsYDbsQAVxwc6m9lIbqNPkpskP4bZnFIf8v9Ekn3qPY/s2048/B944D693-5C7C-426A-A4AF-2934C6CC7CAE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimhToYW3kyFUaQcrQRBewHxHFa9AKRweVauSVbB6mudMPogF3fFhzdMXkFircWgHy6fCCditc926vr7TRiNtpzT-jnq3VRBFnqJsYDbsQAVxwc6m9lIbqNPkpskP4bZnFIf8v9Ekn3qPY/w400-h400/B944D693-5C7C-426A-A4AF-2934C6CC7CAE.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><b>7. Neighbourhood watch</b></p><p>My other Covid cartoon in Private Eye was semi autobiographical. When exercise and visitors were heavily regulated and people had time (due to furlough) to stare out their windows you could also be your own Private Eye and see if any of your neighbours were flagrantly or secretly breaking lockdown rules.</p><p> At the start of lockdown there was a sense of solidarity and community when people put coloured in rainbows in their windows and came out to clap for carers every Thursday at 8pm. While the lockdown was an emergency it was easy but as it dragged on and government advisors and ministers got caught not obeying the rules it all started to fray.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfIPdw2octstWmwWkM2oVTktJx27obRE7gdX0cLHJ7kU1sosmKgec8DQuD5OEJ8wlCaOK-y2KDnQZs3uHLPdv6aA-xCplh49vVqOawIWlhYpplNLII6tTtA-Zj0wxJuYM4BVk9aVRWek/s2048/41BE2C3C-11CA-4709-9C7F-3D7706F6EB42.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfIPdw2octstWmwWkM2oVTktJx27obRE7gdX0cLHJ7kU1sosmKgec8DQuD5OEJ8wlCaOK-y2KDnQZs3uHLPdv6aA-xCplh49vVqOawIWlhYpplNLII6tTtA-Zj0wxJuYM4BVk9aVRWek/w400-h400/41BE2C3C-11CA-4709-9C7F-3D7706F6EB42.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>8. R number</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Here's an example of a gag that I thought was original but then I saw lots of cartoonists doing similar takes.</div><div> In the endless daily briefings that government ministers and assorted scientists did there was much discussion of the R number. The R or reproduction number of a virus is how many people a person with the virus will go on to infect. An R number of over 1 means the virus outbreak is growing and less than 1 means it is under control and shrinking.</div><div> Since a pirate also says R I thought of this gag thinking I was being clever but plenty of other topical cartoonists also had the same thought. Trying to come up with good topical gags is either getting in first with an idea, doing a good implementation of an idea or trying to come up with something off the beaten track.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Suzl-CWJxVVHST1qT_hQNnvVr05ukPB9c4DPj2R3jsR-CFelsFazLSxxhRV3px2qDx6DUgXVjyrk8ffU9HQDTE403J1QMfYWr9JZl0AWMhNHFrT_6-MOsPpZLZEB3PJ3GPRuxnBdM0M/s2048/928D35FB-A0AE-4567-ACA8-4C9AB996F183.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Suzl-CWJxVVHST1qT_hQNnvVr05ukPB9c4DPj2R3jsR-CFelsFazLSxxhRV3px2qDx6DUgXVjyrk8ffU9HQDTE403J1QMfYWr9JZl0AWMhNHFrT_6-MOsPpZLZEB3PJ3GPRuxnBdM0M/w400-h400/928D35FB-A0AE-4567-ACA8-4C9AB996F183.jpeg" width="400" /></a><br /><p><b>9. Be Right Back</b></p><p>There is an obvious mental cost to being endlessly immersed in 24-hour breaking news about the pandemic. You become anxious, always prepping yourself for the next crisis or thinking out numerous outcomes and consequences. Despite months of furlough (government sponsored sitting at home) it felt like you could never truly relax so you had to try finding things to distract yourself.</p><p>As a cartoonist with a day job it was a good opportunity to try and operate as if I was "freelance" with time to chase down every opportunity and devote time to side projects that would normally never get off the ground. In practise there was fewer opportunities around with exhibitions either postponed or reduced in scope and so I did numerous art challenges, charity projects and tried to finish a small press comic. </p><p> This cartoon comes from one of my longest running art challenges the CCGB public forum cartoon competition which still does inspire good ideas from various captions submitted by it's participants.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFiyiCZUrVtrGD3L_RdA6HVuZae0UiH3wVnTofWyrYYAFQmSyNmn91ZZTKdmcklOpmK4FbpjNZHH-YAhXnH2rUpUtZ8x5hmvUaEALeZe98j0neOp7rBBI553h3fvmAG0s3BLkygnaHlsw/s2048/A7DBA1B2-BCCF-47E4-92A6-BE8D06A92097.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFiyiCZUrVtrGD3L_RdA6HVuZae0UiH3wVnTofWyrYYAFQmSyNmn91ZZTKdmcklOpmK4FbpjNZHH-YAhXnH2rUpUtZ8x5hmvUaEALeZe98j0neOp7rBBI553h3fvmAG0s3BLkygnaHlsw/w400-h400/A7DBA1B2-BCCF-47E4-92A6-BE8D06A92097.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><b>10. In fair Corona</b></p><p>Of course Covid seeped into all those art challenges that I was doing too with this example from the same competition referencing the opening line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.</p><p>The lockdown closed nearly every cultural event which were deemed "non-essential" which was devastating for those who earned their living in these sectors. Musicians who couldn't tour might later on be able to host "virtual" events but those who did the lighting, wardrobe, electrics and other support functions were not as lucky and may have to look at the booming delivering boxes to houses sector.</p><p>Museums who rely on visitors for their income went onto social media to showcase their collections and raise awareness of their plight. <a href="https://www.cartoonmuseum.org/">The Cartoon Museum in London</a> and Martin Rowson launched a mini challenge in April to #DrawtheCoronavirus which attracted many cartoonists to submit work for an online exhibition that became an ebook. This cartoon and another, together with some thoughts, made it into the ebook which you can buy for <a href="http://www.cartoonmuseumshop.org/drawthecoronavirus-ebook.ir">£10 to support the museum</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQuS6pYw3v15_3e1eKQ7v0lNuzyeu8RWwEUlpKlQQ2ry9X_bSwSE_5byHeJ6-VjxzrRVh0VX5u-GTkAL2DQjkr8bIPaP9nuOE47JalONAKVN36ldb10n9h1uLoEoJ5b-ZIqGBlJxNUF44/s2048/D06FA910-E6F4-4D6E-885A-9E2E516F4B75.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1535" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQuS6pYw3v15_3e1eKQ7v0lNuzyeu8RWwEUlpKlQQ2ry9X_bSwSE_5byHeJ6-VjxzrRVh0VX5u-GTkAL2DQjkr8bIPaP9nuOE47JalONAKVN36ldb10n9h1uLoEoJ5b-ZIqGBlJxNUF44/w300-h400/D06FA910-E6F4-4D6E-885A-9E2E516F4B75.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p><b>11. Cowboy masks</b></p><p>The coronavirus pandemic was a global battle where every countries apparent successes or failures were scrutinised and in the USA which every pandemic movie had assumed would have the most sophisticated response led by Morgan Freeman the pandemic grew exponentially. History will judge what the reasons for this were whether it was in the chaotic Trump presidency, lack of federal preparedness, disparity in state's responses or a cultural aversion to imposed measures but the US has consistency led the John Hopkin's Covid-19 dashboard for global cases.</p><p>The other global issue was around the use and effectiveness of masks. While some countries routinely used them for outbreaks and controlling respiratory viruses in the west putting a piece of cloth across your face to protect was a major issue for some. While there are some who really don't want to wear masks there is also those who don't wear them properly to cover their nose as well as their mouth.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicvTL5BTD6V5MwcBjTz-ILwWMgSslnbl1n2Q0N0a5fVHlHyaixanmj0WnntOlHHJkNsOblRV81ULCo0E1yVy4ajoqON2DcQDsLP99AkyukL1ufoAPF6aTF88-4__zLG1VHc-9pjv3HNy4/s2048/F2205B8D-D2E1-47AE-BC11-8CCDFB2988AE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicvTL5BTD6V5MwcBjTz-ILwWMgSslnbl1n2Q0N0a5fVHlHyaixanmj0WnntOlHHJkNsOblRV81ULCo0E1yVy4ajoqON2DcQDsLP99AkyukL1ufoAPF6aTF88-4__zLG1VHc-9pjv3HNy4/w640-h640/F2205B8D-D2E1-47AE-BC11-8CCDFB2988AE.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><b>12. Punch and Judy</b></p><p>This cartoon appeared in Private Eye around the summer and I don't remember which male celebrity inspired it except that in any given year there are plenty of candidates.</p><p>Sometimes we always consider folk dodgy and sometimes those who appear heroic in public turn out to be deeply problematic in private. In either case when allegations come to light PR companies may craft "apologies" to try and limit damage in the hope that something worse in the upcoming 24 hour news cycle will take the heated off them, reprieve their client and allow corporate sponsors to not have to abandon them.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnXMemTAxxaxJgV8xDd6lGJPBDo2nIVHCfeO9rBNxdHl7xfNNOD7UgJ630Z88ExihpOyHQkFksmuT7T2IZzOsohmugyNJ9q3Sd1lPEVINAnsgorzQuyR4Q7PDyHH0dGbuppXm-0cFsOkg/s2048/62756BCF-55D3-4279-83ED-413ED724F5A4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnXMemTAxxaxJgV8xDd6lGJPBDo2nIVHCfeO9rBNxdHl7xfNNOD7UgJ630Z88ExihpOyHQkFksmuT7T2IZzOsohmugyNJ9q3Sd1lPEVINAnsgorzQuyR4Q7PDyHH0dGbuppXm-0cFsOkg/w640-h640/62756BCF-55D3-4279-83ED-413ED724F5A4.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><b>13 Exams fiasco</b></p><p>Drawing topical cartoons about education subjects is tricky when you are in Scotland submitting them to publications based mainly in England. Drawing a schools out, or school's back cartoon and you have to bear in mind whether it's topical here or down south.</p><p>Occasionally it helps you out like when due to Covid exams were cancelled and the Scottish exams came out based on a dodgy formula that took into account the past performance of that educational institution. Predicting grades was always a tricky task that relied on teacher's assessments during a turbulent year but weighting results so students in less affluent areas were penalised for past sins lead to trouble. The outcry when Scottish Higher results came out leading to politicians scrambling to reassess grades was slightly ahead of English A level results being released with similar problems. Thus an 11th hour topical cartoon based on Scottish experience snuck into a Private Eye magazine which came out just as the A level political fiasco hit. For some reason it wasn't politicians like Gavin Williamson or John Sweeney who took the fall but people further down in the exams establishment.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsfQ_LMUzepevJpGE12MS8MqmlXMFlJRPyHub6EvRQAbvhC079GuqQhgfzCVtUKGCA1oqdz-HhtdcGUN7qA8gsigvpvZj8ToaHwSJ3qIecfx5TWAuorvnwQ6Dhl56-qrGzr_g6WYBoE-o/s2048/DD8E1066-083D-4B0D-B429-CBC9535CE2E4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsfQ_LMUzepevJpGE12MS8MqmlXMFlJRPyHub6EvRQAbvhC079GuqQhgfzCVtUKGCA1oqdz-HhtdcGUN7qA8gsigvpvZj8ToaHwSJ3qIecfx5TWAuorvnwQ6Dhl56-qrGzr_g6WYBoE-o/w640-h640/DD8E1066-083D-4B0D-B429-CBC9535CE2E4.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><b>14 Eat out to help out</b></div><div><br /></div><div>When the inevitable inquiry looks into government handling of the pandemic one well meaning policy will certainly be probed is Rishi Sunak's "Eat out to help out" treasury scheme that offered half price discounts to lure customers back to hospitality venues that had been shut during the first lockdown.</div><div><br /></div><div>In hindsight it doesn't seem clever but we know that after a summer lull when relaxed rules allowed some to go on holiday or eat out there was going to be a second wave especially as schools reopened and workers were encouraged to go back into the office. </div><div><br /></div><div>I got some half priced burgers and a rejected cartoon out of it.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgep1eiHq5EXp-oHLVqLbkEYrVlrnmVNNUJvG8T1nt_eyOmyKqU9huVoG_9t3hu6t0IHSTea-zIlW0630sVazBtoNkw7qKgRCeKRnSO58fe7a9P3VN94cfw3ZJi_GJ_WKmndTix_7-Lv1M/s2048/C091C5BB-339D-4173-BD5B-ABA73583A503.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgep1eiHq5EXp-oHLVqLbkEYrVlrnmVNNUJvG8T1nt_eyOmyKqU9huVoG_9t3hu6t0IHSTea-zIlW0630sVazBtoNkw7qKgRCeKRnSO58fe7a9P3VN94cfw3ZJi_GJ_WKmndTix_7-Lv1M/w640-h640/C091C5BB-339D-4173-BD5B-ABA73583A503.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><b>15 Second wave</b></div><div>The downside of shutting down the economy was that governments had to borrow eye watering amounts of money to keep everyone afloat which is why they tried in the Autumn to reopen schools, hospitality, work places and allow some inside mixing of households.</div><div><br /></div><div>When numbers began to rise it was interpreted as regional problems with various excuses that required regional solutions so that more rural communities with smaller numbers of cases weren't penalised.</div><div><br /></div><div>A UK government that had been reluctant to shutdown the country when numbers were rising back in March were equally reluctant to tell a public that had got a taste for freedom that they had to head inside again and thus there was a real reluctance to announce a second national lockdown.</div><div><br /></div><div>I don't draw that many biblical themed cartoons but this one nearly got taken.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyP3BJ2TUtuaUltNxCxHJ_JwTZNv0qdL2xKgH2YqEM4t5jeA6130rj3H7w3nTqQi2P3ZHGerj5FMGNK3mEAW6xEn8qfx7UCKZD6L-J-v6alJOWMvYRWN8uZewkgdU-kfF1GU_taUSBbcQ/s2048/B9DA92BE-6972-479F-87BD-9520CD7C5E62.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyP3BJ2TUtuaUltNxCxHJ_JwTZNv0qdL2xKgH2YqEM4t5jeA6130rj3H7w3nTqQi2P3ZHGerj5FMGNK3mEAW6xEn8qfx7UCKZD6L-J-v6alJOWMvYRWN8uZewkgdU-kfF1GU_taUSBbcQ/w640-h640/B9DA92BE-6972-479F-87BD-9520CD7C5E62.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><b>16 Water on the moon</b></p><p>While there was much scientific attention focused on producing a vaccine there was other scientific discoveries in 2020.</p><p>In October <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-sofia-discovers-water-on-sunlit-surface-of-moon/">NASA's SOFIA produced compelling evidence of water on the sunlit surface of the moon</a>. The momentary distraction from other events was a chance to draw this cartoon. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSV95Ks89Ns2-1dLl2ZrBhP2N12eLkvCVr6ER7hIgQSb6A2Lhuni9VrMjeumyiQhxC9iO-JRJFbYb1m-i_mcZp0D6igobU96Uo9IRkUyF4U7b_DwDbL_GC_qMdBfu3omziVSVyvtkybbQ/s2048/534A109B-644B-4937-96C0-DAC62BDA6D40.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1535" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSV95Ks89Ns2-1dLl2ZrBhP2N12eLkvCVr6ER7hIgQSb6A2Lhuni9VrMjeumyiQhxC9iO-JRJFbYb1m-i_mcZp0D6igobU96Uo9IRkUyF4U7b_DwDbL_GC_qMdBfu3omziVSVyvtkybbQ/s320/534A109B-644B-4937-96C0-DAC62BDA6D40.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p><b>17 US postal votes</b></p><p>The big international news story of 2020 was the US presidential election between Democrat ex-VP Joe Biden and Republican shock jock and reality TV star Donald Trump. The polls (which are never wrong) showed a substantial lead for Joe Biden that Donald Trump couldn't really claw back in the debates or after he caught the virus. Thus the battleground became how the virus was impacting the election increasing a reliance on postal votes which Donald Trump went on to attack relentlessly knowing his base was more likely to vote in person which would be counted early compared to postal votes.</p><p>Here is my second OK Corral joke of the blog post.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1U5a-TJljijpV8ctZ79rIHMX4TBNBbzIFK6b0feyqDRt3rNCk_J1f34J0mufgJdsaTqBbEDdI-vkN-9ngWd5ILmqeH2W_MdNeN5qupdK7dKazTPXGP4Rm-t3NeipV14pdRvcpC0mMogw/s2048/0FBA8978-7CC9-4951-B306-0A5A899D9A23.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1U5a-TJljijpV8ctZ79rIHMX4TBNBbzIFK6b0feyqDRt3rNCk_J1f34J0mufgJdsaTqBbEDdI-vkN-9ngWd5ILmqeH2W_MdNeN5qupdK7dKazTPXGP4Rm-t3NeipV14pdRvcpC0mMogw/s320/0FBA8978-7CC9-4951-B306-0A5A899D9A23.jpeg" /></a></div><div><b>18 Joe Biden</b></div><div>After four years of drawing Donald Trump it is time to learn to draw the next US president even though Trump has done his best short of really draconian measures to muddy the result. Like Boris Johnson you get used to drawing political leaders in a certain way and when someone new comes along you need to find which distinctive characteristics you can hang your drawings off (hair for Trump and Johnson).</div><div><br /></div><div>This was my best attempt at Joe Biden in 2020.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1SnpxrSMAnqPGYNHd1H1_oLXJZPKm_BsB5Fev3XVtaDuWqDiEpCeRQCvaLYiVQbGrhxFw7wrFkf7kdIWXOTjupt1YExB49MnOocfhNEc5IkLJYAvjYqStxMHyXuR2gbP35_FDD15iw-w/s2048/BEB60B9B-8A5E-47FE-BE85-C4D54054E831.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1SnpxrSMAnqPGYNHd1H1_oLXJZPKm_BsB5Fev3XVtaDuWqDiEpCeRQCvaLYiVQbGrhxFw7wrFkf7kdIWXOTjupt1YExB49MnOocfhNEc5IkLJYAvjYqStxMHyXuR2gbP35_FDD15iw-w/w400-h400/BEB60B9B-8A5E-47FE-BE85-C4D54054E831.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><b>19 The nightmare before Christmas</b></div><div>Leadership in a crisis requires leaders that are prepared to speak uncomfortable truths and lead rather than react to events and public pressure. The 2020 report card of Boris Johnson should say as well as dithering/delay he often overpromises only to under deliver.</div><div><br /></div><div>The first lockdown was meant to be a matter of weeks, the second wave measures were meant to guarantee a return to normality by Christmas, further measures were then necessary to land a Christmas truce with the virus and as the facts that a resurgent virus cared not for holidays there was a big U-turn.</div><div><br /></div><div>Even when experts were fairly sure Christmas with multiple households and multiple days wasn’t a very good idea Boris Johnson still stood behind his podium to merely urge caution until the emergence of a new mutated Covid strain in Kent provided the cover to drastically strip back Christmas just as people had ordered big turkeys, put plans in place and were nearly on the motorway. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPwy_4EMCLhobsZyqPFwS-23rujLMLd7YEYmhGnd6t3AmlcwU8Lu46w4sl_htraFU1c86Yfr9-r30ghPJIG_vyH4eo6Nv3ORZpTqQu47t5IYG8dQm1mL4x3clYqMOsJgnAlHN3E_tprc/s2048/8EAAEAE7-BD4B-4B00-BFEB-EE47A4FD9866.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPwy_4EMCLhobsZyqPFwS-23rujLMLd7YEYmhGnd6t3AmlcwU8Lu46w4sl_htraFU1c86Yfr9-r30ghPJIG_vyH4eo6Nv3ORZpTqQu47t5IYG8dQm1mL4x3clYqMOsJgnAlHN3E_tprc/w400-h400/8EAAEAE7-BD4B-4B00-BFEB-EE47A4FD9866.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><p><b>20 Hand Santa-riser</b></p><p>My last published cartoon of 2020 was in the Christmas edition of Private Eye and this isn't it (as it is still in the shops as I write this). If you look at my previous posts on my 2020 Advent cartoons you will see how this year inspired new Christmas themed cartoons that hopefully won't make sense next Christmas.</p><p>Talking about common cartoon themes if you drew a Christmas cartoon involving sanitiser and didn't pun it into Santa-tiser then you missed a trick.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkkAaIXjYPNtNApjUJLLdQAvyfFbnZweyEO41BRsS2oDnUZ52UHGdfuhyNCSQUq5n6vXnCfSFglt-e8ORkYlj-ks3nnvHBz16QrGkRctw6Zw6LPvBluIQ8T0X6rO-bMlGRqf5hFSdChDY/s2048/38DB455D-044F-471B-85C5-852EFD2C4095.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkkAaIXjYPNtNApjUJLLdQAvyfFbnZweyEO41BRsS2oDnUZ52UHGdfuhyNCSQUq5n6vXnCfSFglt-e8ORkYlj-ks3nnvHBz16QrGkRctw6Zw6LPvBluIQ8T0X6rO-bMlGRqf5hFSdChDY/s320/38DB455D-044F-471B-85C5-852EFD2C4095.jpeg" /></a></div><div><br /></div>So that's enough waffle for 2020. Hope you all enjoy a much better 2021 and once the virus passes and we pick over the wreckage of the post-Brexit economy I hope the next year of cartoons will be more varied and cheerful. As always you can follow me on various social media platforms where I post more often than I do in the blog.<br /><p><br /></p></div></div></div></div>idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-37322721662260865352020-12-23T14:22:00.002-08:002020-12-23T14:22:51.743-08:00Advent part 2<p> Advent 2020 is very different from previous years as there was rumours of Christmas restrictions being tightened these advent topical cartoons tried to capture the moment.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKlpaECQKdRHPykhKaTOgXRlXguVum-ndDwXmYIMz9e32BXth8mS58uK2r1ILnvTr5OYaLnQstLfqtQjSDj3-YQe2gW-3S5E_0-AvNkmuwQzAccT1SfSmJj6MDzhnmlhYKnnb_Xd1JZV0/s2048/BD564E0F-6611-4B0E-8427-77209B233CC2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKlpaECQKdRHPykhKaTOgXRlXguVum-ndDwXmYIMz9e32BXth8mS58uK2r1ILnvTr5OYaLnQstLfqtQjSDj3-YQe2gW-3S5E_0-AvNkmuwQzAccT1SfSmJj6MDzhnmlhYKnnb_Xd1JZV0/w640-h640/BD564E0F-6611-4B0E-8427-77209B233CC2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Advent day 16 and the Ghost of Christmas Present started to haunt us as the rumours of tighter restrictions started to circulate. Enjoyed drawing the Christmas Carols scene though<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZV0dBILnMk_YVkIZx1R_l0jyqZmvZbsLUiDJYMfiU78ELp4nmVAGuDn2BRFMjXjq-4msFGqYSFyg54xDWiZq6Qr9OOZ8blySi-tLsWj4mejujxY9S7JhYTpTOtWAY81H2AFOiSXrlRIc/s2048/5CE5037A-9016-4B8B-BE4E-9B174C3BA50C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZV0dBILnMk_YVkIZx1R_l0jyqZmvZbsLUiDJYMfiU78ELp4nmVAGuDn2BRFMjXjq-4msFGqYSFyg54xDWiZq6Qr9OOZ8blySi-tLsWj4mejujxY9S7JhYTpTOtWAY81H2AFOiSXrlRIc/w640-h640/5CE5037A-9016-4B8B-BE4E-9B174C3BA50C.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div>Advent day 18 was a cartoon from the reject pile (although I did get a cartoon about container ships and Christmas into the Christmas edition of Private Eye). There was plenty of Santa-tiser gags around but I still had to draw this.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQzWaGRZa7XU3fEIoLlTlJ3Gyoufaqc59IpoMfiDmi8VpTCmRrrQ-Io7s4U_WVZNhrX1CLVHCrWvAE1HvujMUEOo47w2BTwdnSbilVQ46L8D8bP0taV0JAYQq6O0gb5rOBgUdAXjABwjE/s2048/65F0E865-5E1D-4469-B910-5851C813E67E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQzWaGRZa7XU3fEIoLlTlJ3Gyoufaqc59IpoMfiDmi8VpTCmRrrQ-Io7s4U_WVZNhrX1CLVHCrWvAE1HvujMUEOo47w2BTwdnSbilVQ46L8D8bP0taV0JAYQq6O0gb5rOBgUdAXjABwjE/w640-h640/65F0E865-5E1D-4469-B910-5851C813E67E.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Advent day 20 I decided to talk about one of my favourite Christmas Carols in the bleak midwinter which like many other Christmas Carols doesn't make 100% sense if you take it literally and ask about why there would be deep snow and snowmen in Bethlehem.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5nDK02H8O-0Y1VHPWo0wXLlBHLKDJrJPulHbtJwkYYlALXihS1tv_58Jjl614yF-jqqmnYTH5ZWAQkB-TtcqDXmQiIHhLTyAD_ZBBW-4KlVTB3ojEuXi8pAz3URghtCVCqROTZ-97tY0/s2048/9CBD8C25-6D00-4AAF-8E3B-C739093376B3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5nDK02H8O-0Y1VHPWo0wXLlBHLKDJrJPulHbtJwkYYlALXihS1tv_58Jjl614yF-jqqmnYTH5ZWAQkB-TtcqDXmQiIHhLTyAD_ZBBW-4KlVTB3ojEuXi8pAz3URghtCVCqROTZ-97tY0/w640-h640/9CBD8C25-6D00-4AAF-8E3B-C739093376B3.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Advent day 22 we now know we're in Tier 4 lockdown from Boxing Day so we have to prepare ourselves with some epic jigsaws.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8_6piuKWAZqPS4iBRRbzWUF3hjC6TaHkDmsXRBCPiT05iTiNudJCoSGgaAENwTDaW3X6zCu6iAuyQXs6rgrClgsXSqjYIEgf0a0n-WrPBwVTXMgluiRYemuNwG15i-fPv2D4uNU-Boo/s2048/421DFE7B-ECF3-4CD6-BBE6-D349D0F8FD97.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8_6piuKWAZqPS4iBRRbzWUF3hjC6TaHkDmsXRBCPiT05iTiNudJCoSGgaAENwTDaW3X6zCu6iAuyQXs6rgrClgsXSqjYIEgf0a0n-WrPBwVTXMgluiRYemuNwG15i-fPv2D4uNU-Boo/w640-h640/421DFE7B-ECF3-4CD6-BBE6-D349D0F8FD97.jpeg" width="640" /></a><p></p></div><div>Advent day 22 the newly announced mutation of the virus lead to lorries stuck in Kent and fears of food shortages in supermarkets which leads to fears of panic buying. In reality I didn't see much evidence of it but I couldn't find bananas in Sainsburys on Christmas Eve Eve.</div><div><br /></div><div>Have a good Christmas and may 2021 be a resurgent year for us all.</div>idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-80212853399104976122020-12-15T13:31:00.000-08:002020-12-15T13:31:03.225-08:00Advent 2020 Part 1<p> Advent 2020 like everything else in 2020 has been very different. On social media I’ve been posting a cartoon every day some ghosts of Christmas past and some of Christmas present. Here are a selection of my favourite new cartoons from the first two weeks...</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidiidkcTjyXrFCPjk9tyRhx9ofKLOVmRDBgEVwAsjmMMWjimQuEX_eH9PKnONYSm9yqnZDSZwQwQhhFPXFmDdw9LOCehTAUaBxfXdGvv6j1hPM4F5Ii_tYDSIWv4PkfRxoIJ8C-sj65xE/s2048/0CEC0C18-9431-42C7-AC68-957C54C01B57.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidiidkcTjyXrFCPjk9tyRhx9ofKLOVmRDBgEVwAsjmMMWjimQuEX_eH9PKnONYSm9yqnZDSZwQwQhhFPXFmDdw9LOCehTAUaBxfXdGvv6j1hPM4F5Ii_tYDSIWv4PkfRxoIJ8C-sj65xE/w640-h640/0CEC0C18-9431-42C7-AC68-957C54C01B57.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Day 3 was a twist on the angels appearing to shepherds that I have done in various guises. I could equally have done another Brexit gag here.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8YsNEG0VHjRBab0eslqxadj6nChGMoqwJkqKnaePo8iZJpEP_p2SjsDOh2pKBAOp9SjW-VZ3Ba-4qiugiR-uHukRRPJDw2Mbd21gYM3JzOcr7eHmwZG1YYaOy8Jn1XdwLj-1aqfsYI58/s2048/BB494C51-458A-4E4F-BD27-1E6F99F71AAA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8YsNEG0VHjRBab0eslqxadj6nChGMoqwJkqKnaePo8iZJpEP_p2SjsDOh2pKBAOp9SjW-VZ3Ba-4qiugiR-uHukRRPJDw2Mbd21gYM3JzOcr7eHmwZG1YYaOy8Jn1XdwLj-1aqfsYI58/w640-h640/BB494C51-458A-4E4F-BD27-1E6F99F71AAA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Day 7 was a working from home elf who couldn’t get his deliveries before December 25th</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Kqlm-XuiR5vnwzrK0u0WOSbLQAVWAER69aO8Qatf7zK93krjc0ee1ekQQPUbvQn8j1tLdzWFaFTX1p34OaZl_vnS-7dxDRP8QwE6XTgNwKFqtrwoH3CNySI2NYXC08IEFi6RUJW5T4o/s2048/advent12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Kqlm-XuiR5vnwzrK0u0WOSbLQAVWAER69aO8Qatf7zK93krjc0ee1ekQQPUbvQn8j1tLdzWFaFTX1p34OaZl_vnS-7dxDRP8QwE6XTgNwKFqtrwoH3CNySI2NYXC08IEFi6RUJW5T4o/w640-h640/advent12.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Day 12 and as non essential shops reopened wise men just went with wherever didn’t have big queues</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-P7VJUTXnBRYBDt71A7l9OlwjwXsUBFWtFNWRfiqIj3QRTCusUpatXa6wnsmAs4e3ldPUP3jU0ZbeV6_9DhNtFUTlJCApVVb7PtG2sf-MAtwWM6DE5IPyyRt35tFxtlMp_VaIYxODntY/s2048/advent14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-P7VJUTXnBRYBDt71A7l9OlwjwXsUBFWtFNWRfiqIj3QRTCusUpatXa6wnsmAs4e3ldPUP3jU0ZbeV6_9DhNtFUTlJCApVVb7PtG2sf-MAtwWM6DE5IPyyRt35tFxtlMp_VaIYxODntY/w640-h640/advent14.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Day 14 and there is creeping confusion as to what exactly the rules for Christmas will end up being as authorities start to row back from earlier plans for relaxed family gatherings.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLp7XkDgzSg6dYDHkyxF1iY0MhQ7tn2SK93-JBwwQ44w1MWbISbkf-H86CqzD1c6FGT2Sdai3X8HsrwY6wbLTAEMtKLW9jX-vNeH2_XyM-U1hULx_FRq9kkJlylhizkGlaoF-oKRoM6XM/s2048/advent15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLp7XkDgzSg6dYDHkyxF1iY0MhQ7tn2SK93-JBwwQ44w1MWbISbkf-H86CqzD1c6FGT2Sdai3X8HsrwY6wbLTAEMtKLW9jX-vNeH2_XyM-U1hULx_FRq9kkJlylhizkGlaoF-oKRoM6XM/w640-h640/advent15.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Day 15 and after watching some Christmas concerts online I imagine a little drummer boy scenario.</p><p>Follow me on <a href="https://twitter.com/cartoonsidrew">twitter </a>and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cartoonsidrew/">instagram </a>to see how the rest of advent 2020 unfolds.</p><p><br /></p>idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-90096323215177596492020-12-13T14:50:00.002-08:002020-12-13T14:50:59.678-08:00Portrait Artist of the week<p> I’ve just finished the second season of Sky Art’s portrait artist of the week which ran every Sunday morning alongside the TV show Portrait Artist of the Week. Here are my nine #paotw </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhivOyGrJGAihIM9RGHOmUXBoFrIiSVunX0PhEMw77PfMsA3s4Mb-nYWdENMotUdpgDjEzhbNr0WGTJWOjdUDwELwBbzrd7ikcULuVVnxZkeGEIdjlCyl47gqGIFOn8Ke2rqU0LOmxJ12E/s2048/A44F2BA8-D0B4-4EE8-9CBE-E49DF1A9D228.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhivOyGrJGAihIM9RGHOmUXBoFrIiSVunX0PhEMw77PfMsA3s4Mb-nYWdENMotUdpgDjEzhbNr0WGTJWOjdUDwELwBbzrd7ikcULuVVnxZkeGEIdjlCyl47gqGIFOn8Ke2rqU0LOmxJ12E/w640-h640/A44F2BA8-D0B4-4EE8-9CBE-E49DF1A9D228.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>My two favourites were journalist Samira Ahmed where my digital painting managed to be less flat than some of my other efforts not to draw</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0dZNc3fgADzfKl-emfX9JzJ67PFV28JvhWBQvls8N7qwzX5HmtsIGUnVZtb6Z53ytVh4RlXy3t1IZRPszvSdbdxs_gU1TC6KVVAs4nn0NysJJREiw1bLxEsWacKm2i0jtGW5G1ti9T1Q/s2048/64D123CB-7325-4B47-B0F4-12CD0ADC7D1B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0dZNc3fgADzfKl-emfX9JzJ67PFV28JvhWBQvls8N7qwzX5HmtsIGUnVZtb6Z53ytVh4RlXy3t1IZRPszvSdbdxs_gU1TC6KVVAs4nn0NysJJREiw1bLxEsWacKm2i0jtGW5G1ti9T1Q/w400-h400/64D123CB-7325-4B47-B0F4-12CD0ADC7D1B.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>My favourite “drawing” portrait was C4 newsman Jon Snow where I concentrated on the drawing and ignored adding in colour except for some grey tones</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIzb-hIFje0v3T3JaXNryMX0apQeLMqk9f9y1FkBefd1UtVGd5lQhcSG2NxKHtEVI-_IMnGbu9Ge1uzYGb9K8xAw5IdB2EAcu1AWobeVJ9Spa6FDgcqlBgOqqg5WFUhLAa6Tqtjt4k7K8/s2048/E75F7129-B3C3-4934-BF6C-561F87F371DD.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIzb-hIFje0v3T3JaXNryMX0apQeLMqk9f9y1FkBefd1UtVGd5lQhcSG2NxKHtEVI-_IMnGbu9Ge1uzYGb9K8xAw5IdB2EAcu1AWobeVJ9Spa6FDgcqlBgOqqg5WFUhLAa6Tqtjt4k7K8/w400-h400/E75F7129-B3C3-4934-BF6C-561F87F371DD.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>The other reason for like #paotw is there was a lot of nice buzz over on Instagram on Sundays both in likes for my portraits and discovering other artists. As someone who spends more time on Twitter it was nice to be involved in something of an Instagram community. If you are on Instagram you can find me @cartoonsidrew</p>idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-29382007244998598132020-05-11T11:40:00.001-07:002020-05-11T11:40:43.810-07:00Cleft Awareness Week 2020<br />
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Cleft awareness week in 2020 had a theme of mental health with the hashtage #behindeverysmile. So I drew a comic about all the different emotions I felt as a parent good, back and ugly. Of course you’re not feeling this all the time and there are times when it is more intense around the operations.<br />
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In the middle of coronavirus we’re all experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions.idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-73550115088496094652019-12-30T07:23:00.001-08:002019-12-30T07:23:35.978-08:0019 cartoons from 2019It only seems like yesterday that I did <a href="https://www.cartoonsidrew.com/2018/12/18-cartoons-from-2018.html">18 cartoons from 2018</a> but here are again another year of Brexit and UK politics sinking lower than you thought it could go. However the awfulness did give cartoonists some good material to work with and so here are some of published and unpublished cartoons from the events of 2019.<br />
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<b>1. Brexit, Brexit and more Brexit</b><br />
This cartoon from the January reject pile illustrates the ongoing challenge of 2019 to keep drawing cartoons about the prevailing issue of the day without resorting to cliche and coming up with different angles on what seemed like a year of delay and drama.<br />
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<b>2. Global Warming Winter</b><br />
Here’s a cartoon that Private Eye were going to run but then got pulled when Trump actually tweeted about global warming and snow (they did provide a kill fee). I did draw a fee climate cartoons in 2029 but this was the one that got closest to being published.<br />
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<b>3. Valentines Day Stockpiling</b><br />
It’s easy to forgot but there was several times in 2019 when I was picking up prescriptions wondering if I would get the next one if there was a No Deal Brexit or if we should be stockpiling food. In reality it would probably be the fresh goods not the cans that would disappear first. Don’t worry we can still do it again at the end of 2020 if negotiations don’t go well. This one was in the Eye.<br />
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<b>4. Hedgehog Brexit</b><br />
This was perhaps my most successful published cartoon of 2019 just after the 31st March deadline got extended by Theresa May I was looking for a spring angle and dragged poor hedgehogs into the political mire. It was in with a batch of what I thought were funnier and clever cartoons but it goes to show how often the one that works captures a mood at a specific time. As well as being in Private Eye it was also in the Political Cartoon Awards of 2019 down in London.<br />
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<b>5. Writer AI</b><br />
On the technology front there was a story around Feb of AI being able to write news articles and fiction a sort of deep fake for writing which inspired this cartoon which was probably my favourite drawing I got published.<br />
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<b>6. Black Hole picture</b><br />
In April scientists produced the first picture of a black hole at the centre of galaxy M87. This gag was a quick one to produce in Procreate as the image was a blurry ring of fire.<br />
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<b>7. Changing name</b><br />
During the Brexit debates a number of Labour and Tory MPs broke away to form an independent group that would run in the European election. As part of their campaign they changed name and logo several times.<br />
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<b>8. London skyscraper pool</b><br />
Sometimes you just draw a gag based around a social media viral,post in this case a proposed new impossible pool on top of a London skyscraper with no obvious entry point. I liked the drawing but knew it would have limited reuse potential.<br />
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<b>9. Facial Recognition</b><br />
There was court cases about facial recognition’s use on the street this summer and so I drew this cartoon.<br />
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<b>10. Tory Leadership Election</b><br />
When Theresa May stood down as Conservative leader Boris Johnson faced a whole raft of lesser known figures for the crown. To improve my caricaturing I drew them all and my favourite to draw and listen to was maybe spy Rory Stewart. Boris Johnson won comfortably. This is my only non-cartoon to make my list of 19 “cartoons”.<br />
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<b>11. Sugar Tax (1500th Private Eye)</b><br />
Matt Hancock the health secretary made public some ideas about a ‘Sugar Tax’ to tackle obesity but then in July he dropped them in the dying days of the Theresa May regime. This was not the only time in 2019 Matt Hancock went back on his principles. This one appeared with colour in the 1500th issue of Private Eye.<br />
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<b>12. Impending election</b><br />
It’s hard to believe I drew this in August in the midst of speculation that there would be an election (that eventually turned out to be in December). The advantage of making this sort of prediction is that even if your timing was off you knew it would eventually come true and you’d look like Nostradamus.<br />
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<b>13. 5G rollout</b><br />
My last cartoon in Private Eye of 2019 was about oversized 4G masts.<br />
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<b>14. Deep Fakes</b><br />
One of the technology stories of 2019 was about how convincing deep fakes were becoming.<br />
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<b>15. Turkish Invasion</b><br />
When the Trump administration withdrew US troops from northern Syria allowing Turkey to invade claiming it was an anti-terrorist operation against Kurdish groups it was hard to draw a cartoon response when our Kurdish allies were being killed by our NATO allies. This was all I could come up with.<br />
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<b>16. Billionaires</b><br />
At the start of the election there was much talk about the top 5% and the taxes they pay including tech billionaires. If you asked Alexa though you might have gotten another opinion.<br />
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<b>17. Trump Impeachment</b><br />
In 2019 the US democrats took the first steps in launching impeachment hearings against Trump who was caught trying to get Ukrainians to give him dirt on his political rival in return for US aid. It will roll into 2020 when the Republican dominated upper house will probably squash it. I drew this around Thanksgiving.<br />
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<b>18. Election in Scotland</b><br />
This was my most successful tweeted cartoon of 2019 drawn on election night after former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said she’d swim nude in Loch Ness if the SNP managed to get 50 seats and the exit poll which was awful did at least make it look like a collapse in the Tory vote in Scotland might deliver such a result. The SNP got 48 seats and Boris got a large majority.<br />
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<b>19. Baby Yoda</b><br />
The big culture hit of 2019 was ‘Baby Yoda’ of the Star Wars TV series The Mandalorian which managed to outshine the last Star Wars movie and perhaps the traditional Christmas characters.<br />
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Thanks to everyone who liked, RTed or commented on my work in 2019. It was a year I <a href="https://procartoonists.org/portfolios/andrewfraser/">joined the PCO</a>, was in exhibitions in Edinburgh and London and sold work, as well as being published in the Private Eye and the New York Times Upfront magazine. Who knows what 2020 brings but I hope we all do better politically than we did in 2019.<br />
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Almost every month on twitter now has its own associated art challenge with #inktober probably being the biggest. Last year I did inktober and an IllustrationHQ small drawing challenge but this year instead of doing lots of other things I took part in #<a href="https://marchofrobots.com/">MarchOfRobots</a> which is bigger on Instagram run by Dacosta! aka ChocolateSoop.<br />
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Now usually l have a habit of making things up as I go along but by about March 3rd I had settled on a consistent style and theme of ‘Robots at Work’. I like drawing robots and one of the earliest cartoons I sold to Private Eye was on this theme (<a href="https://www.cartoonsidrew.com/2017/12/17-cartoons-from-2017.html">you can see it in the 2017 summary</a>)<br />
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So every day of March I had to find a robot occupation for that day’s prompt for example on day 6 the prompt was ‘key’ so I came up with a robot writer (which is also the theme of a cartoon I drew for the current issue of Private Eye).</div>
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One of the joys of this project was adapting old or current technology to make strange robots like this BarberBot.</div>
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This week's Thursday night #PortraitChallenge over on Twitter was to reinterpret a 1907 photograph of Maud Wagner circus performer and the first known female tattoo artist (you can <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Wagner">read the Wikipedia article here</a>).<br />
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Drawing people and getting likenesses is currently one of my favourite challenges but drawing heavily tattooed people adds an extra layer in that you have to do the added artwork without making it look like it is just drawings on top of drawings but is actually on the skin. I used Procreate and procrastinated for several hours just drawing Maud's face and skin before diving into the wonderful array of tattoos including lions, snakes, horses, butterflies and down on the arm what might be seahorses or some other creatures. The other challenge is the photograph is sepia so you had to imagine your own colour scheme which actually made it more interesting. All in all I think I took three hours on this and<a href="https://twitter.com/cartoonsidrew/status/1101212023000649728"> I did do a thread of progress pictures and a 30s time lapse if you want to see how it built up</a>.<br />
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<br />idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-87878013585829711762019-02-21T00:52:00.000-08:002019-02-21T00:52:14.891-08:00Shetland DI Jimmy Perez<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are always crime shows on in our house so I was thinking of starting to draw some of the detectives from the telly. This is the brilliant DI Jimmy Perez played by Douglas Henshall.<br />
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What makes Shetland is the combination of the characters and the unique setting. For some reason it reminds me a bit of Taggart with it's Scottish grit and indeed sometimes they have to leave the island for the big smoke of Glasgow where we can spot local landmarks. Shetland is an adaption of the Ann Cleeves novels (who also wrote Vera) shown on the BBC but made by ITV studios.<br />
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With so many murders every night I'm actually quite dismissive of a lot of generic detective shows (oh he's a maverick is he?) so I'm not sure who I'll tackle now.<br />
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In the meantime if you are into crime shows you should give this one a go.idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-85298029132508021622018-12-30T09:02:00.001-08:002018-12-30T09:02:29.630-08:0018 cartoons from 2018Another epic year passes with more news of inept governments and impending disasters so what better way to look back than at 18 cartoons I did this year some of which got published and some of which belonged firmly in the reject pile. Either way I always enjoy looking back and telling the story of 12 months in topical cartoons and so here is one of those lists but without making you scroll through clickbait-y adverts.<br />
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<b>1. Facebook all seeing Eye</b><br />
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I drew this cartoon at the start of the year but all year long there was a steady drip drip of stories about how much Facebook knows about it's users and who they were sharing it with and what that data could be used for. I'm sure it's all better now.<br />
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<b>2. Tardigrade Mum</b><br />
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Art challenges on social media are often good for sparking off ideas and taking you down tangents you wouldn't have thought of otherwise. In this case it was drawing something about tardigrades the super resilient micro-animals around mothers day.<br />
This went about as viral as any of my comics went this year.<br />
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<b>3. Space Force</b><br />
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If I were an American cartoonist I imagine I'd spent most of 2018 drawing Trump cartoons given the amount of news his behaviour and tweets generate. I did attempt a few this year one of which about his cancelling of the Iran treaty did make it into print but I enjoyed drawing this one the most.<br />
The Space Force is the Trump administration's idea of allowing the US military to weaponize space with a new branch to sit alongside the Navy, Air Force and Army.<br />
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<b>4. Duck Cluck-bait</b><br />
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This animal on a computer cartoon ended up in the Eye and was reprinted in the Week. Looking at all my cartoons I've noticed I draw many many drawings of animals and people sitting in-front of screens.<br />
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<b>5. Royal Baby</b><br />
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If I had to pick my favourite cartoon I drew this year it would probably bee this one about the third royal baby from Kate and William. The news outlets do like a good story about the royals to break up all the domestic political goings on. <br />
This cartoon and the next three were all in a run of three consecutive issues of Private Eye that I had cartoons in.<br />
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<b>6. GDPR</b><br />
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GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation an EU regulation on data protection and privacy which no-one who had ever worked in IT or signed up for any online service could avoid around the May 25th deadline.<br />
Everyone from charities, small clubs to every online shop and website had to get in touch with anyone they had details on to talk about how they were going to responsibly police their data resulting in a deluge of emails.<br />
This is one of those relatable topical cartoons which was perfect for the time but won't mean too much in the future.<br />
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<b>7. Plastic Pollution</b><br />
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Plastic pollution was a huge topic in 2018 and an environmental issue few could argue against with lots of evidence that it was harmful to marine life. By the end of the year my own children were quizzing us on our own use of single use plastics having been taught about it in school.<br />
There were lots of cartoons on the subject floating around and I was glad one of my own to the pile.<br />
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<b>8. Robot Cat and Dog</b><br />
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One of the creepiest videos of 2018 was of the robot dog being developed by Boston Dynamics that could open doors.<br />
Sometimes you spend ages trying to come up with a gag and sometimes they just come to you quite easily like in this case.<br />
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<b>9. Alexa</b><br />
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Every year there is one or two topics or ideas that come into my head over and over again when I'm thinking what to draw. Quite often like in the case of fidget spinners and slime I never come up with a great gag and they all end up in the reject pile but it's fun trying. Alexa was one of those topics of 2018 when I had a summer holiday, Christmas and other variants on the same theme. However one of my older Alexa jokes was quite popular one of the days Alexa went down.<br />
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<b>10. Luxury Cheese</b><br />
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You would think the omnishambles that is Brexit would be a constant source of cartooning comedy but it isn't a subject I find it easy to come up with good gags for. For one there are already lots of cartoons out there on the subject and so another off a cliff cliche isn't going to wow anyone if you don't have a good angle. About the best I did in 2018 was there was a story about luxury cheese being hard to find after a No Deal Brexit resulting in this cartoon.<br />
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<b>11. VARS World Cup</b><br />
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With the World Cup in Russia we were expecting the main England football story to be hooliganism not that a new manager in a waistcoat would turn a decent young team into semi finalists. Watching England not being rubbish was perhaps the closest my 2018 to a real good news story.<br />
The other World Cup story was VARS the video referee that they chose to trial on the biggest stage rather than perfect it in some other leagues.<br />
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<b>12. Free Hugs</b><br />
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Not every cartoon has to be topical and I enjoy drawing lions<br />
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<b>13. Parker Probe</b><br />
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The NASA Parker probe launched in August is on a mission to the outer corona of the Sun. Here is my attempt at a gag about it.<br />
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<b>14. Conservative Conference I</b><br />
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This topical cartoon combines two of my favourite themes the ineptness of the ruling Conservative party and technological mishaps. It is based on the BBC's Bodyguard series which was perhaps my favourite TV drama of the year (although they wrapped it up a bit too conveniently).<br />
As a visual gag there was perhaps too much going on but Private Eye did use it for the basis of a (better) written joke so the idea got published even if the visuals never were seen until now.<br />
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<b>15. Conservative Conference II</b><br />
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The Conservative Conference gave us another great 2018 moment in Theresa May's speech which didn't involve cough sweets and props falling down like last year but strange dance moves as she came on.<br />
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<b>16. Dynasties</b><br />
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Some of the the best BBC content is the David Attenborough nature documentaries which this years was the Dynasties series. I drew this cartoon before I'd watched it and maybe it isn't the funniest but I did like the drawing of the elephant.<br />
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<b>17. Rudolph's right on rant</b><br />
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This one is from @studioteabreak's Monday #MythicalMashup challenge which gives you two prompts one of them mythical and can lead to all sorts of unexpected places. In this cartoon I got Rudolph to deliver some devastating social commentary on the injustice of Santa which I have tried before in other forms but this one has a certain charm about it.<br />
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<b>18. Brexit news</b><br />
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And to remind it off a reminder that you just can't escape from some stories and we have months of Brexit stories to keep us going in 2019 and probably for the rest of your natural lives.<br />
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So that's my 2018 batch done - hoping you all have a good 2019 and that in twelve months time I have 19 more to share with you again (unless society has collapsed).idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-10680895129292058162018-06-11T01:15:00.000-07:002018-06-11T01:15:19.324-07:00World Cup MIFA Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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MIFA stands for Missing In Footie Album and is <a href="http://davewilldesign.com/mifa">Dave Will's pre-World Cup project</a> to have artists and illustrators across the globe make football sticker designs for all the players who are in the 2018 World Cup squads but didn't make the official Panini sticker album due to squads being announced and changed after the official album is finalised.<br />
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I only discovered this fun project when Peter Rasmussen or <a href="https://twitter.com/Badlydoodled">@badlydoodled</a> who I follow on Twitter posted his entry and so I dived in to pick a player while there were still some left. Some furious scribbling later and messing around between multiple apps and my entry is one of the 254 on show by over 150 artists and there is a great variety of styles and some stunning artwork.<br />
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I chose Bartosz Bialkowski from the Poland Squad who plays for Ipswich Town in the English Championship. He made his international debut aged 30 back in March although he has strong competition from the usual No.1s of Fabianski (Swansea) and Szcesny (Juventus) for a starting place in the squad.idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-90978073128080443992018-05-09T14:38:00.000-07:002018-05-09T14:38:09.423-07:00Cleft Awareness Week (Bone Graft)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A three part comic for this year's Cleft Awareness Week based on my son recent Alveolar Bone Graft surgery back in February from a parents viewpoint.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYly0ERO9ZFtg2G7l-XfSq06wWB6hGqQS1fT7dtuwPeLIzMTEw_BPrQEcznHCSeY38QASQzxKAzMVipXQLPmyMjFJS66AfqjMLctAFAFy-hEOHBRlNIko1wqrcqx-CvhUZjogliv-OzMY/s1600/IMG_2793+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYly0ERO9ZFtg2G7l-XfSq06wWB6hGqQS1fT7dtuwPeLIzMTEw_BPrQEcznHCSeY38QASQzxKAzMVipXQLPmyMjFJS66AfqjMLctAFAFy-hEOHBRlNIko1wqrcqx-CvhUZjogliv-OzMY/s1600/IMG_2793+%25281%2529.JPG" /></a></div>
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The last two Cleft Awareness Weeks I have posted comics the <a href="https://www.cartoonsidrew.com/2017/05/cleft-awareness-week-2017.html">first one</a> covering the time from when my son was born with an undiagnosed unilateral cleft lip and palate (it wasn't detected on any of our pregnancy scans) through the first two surgeries to primary school. The <a href="https://www.cartoonsidrew.com/2017/05/cleft-awareness-week-2017.html">second comic</a> was more of a general awareness/information comic that did touch on some of the pre-bone graft nerves.<br />
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This year we have undergone the major surgery we hinted at in the last two year's comics the Alveolar Bone Graft where they take some bone from a hip or shin to fill in the gap in the gum to allow the adult teeth to come in better without a gap.<br />
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You can read how our experience was from Pre-Op through Post-Op to Recovery. Perhaps because it was so recent I have gone into more detail and indeed I could have added lots of extra detail but I tried to cover all the main highlights which seemed to involve me drawing a lot of people sitting or looking at tablets/phones.<br />
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Here are some other general points that may explain some things from the comic.<br />
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<li>This is just our experience other parents and hospitals may do parts of this differently. If you are looking for advice for how your bone graft will proceed your local cleft team will be able to help. If you are looking for a way of explaining the procedure this<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZanCoBSkac"> new video from Great Ormond Street Hospital</a> is great.</li>
<li>My son is doing great but until we get X-Rays in a few months time we won't know if it has been successful or not.</li>
<li>Our surgery took place at the recently built Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow which meant I got to draw some cool modern buildings and interiors (the Atrium of the main adult hospital next door is quite impressive). Our earlier surgeries were at Yorkhill which while it was older did mean you were on wards with others not in your own separate room where you didn't see the nurses and doctors moving around.</li>
<li>Unusually the surgery was on Sunday and we were first up so the hospital was a bit quieter.</li>
<li>The recovery at home did involve a lot of Youtube watching but we did try and get our son to move around sometimes. Unfortunately Scotland was hit with a big snowfall and so we were stuck in the house for the first week. By the second weekend we did get out and about a bit.</li>
<li>You can get more information on cleft lip and palate from the Cleft Lip and Palate Association (CLAPA) <a href="https://www.clapa.com/">website</a>. This is a UK based charity there may be other organisations in other parts of the world. We have found this charity invaluable for meeting other parents going through the same experiences. </li>
<li>This comic is one way of us trying to give back to the community that helped us through the bone graft by demonstrating how it was for us down to mundane details. It is safe to say that from the moment our son was signed off speech therapy this surgery was on our mind. Then when you start getting appointment letters you try and anticipate everything that is going to happen even when you don't know exactly when the actual surgery will be. For example we booked no holidays away from the house for the whole first half of this year because we were unsure if we would be able to take them.</li>
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Finally thanks to everyone inside and outside the cleft community who has shared or commented on these comics. It has been great speaking to others who either have gone through or are going to go through the same surgeries.<br />
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Over the last few years I've taken part in more and more Twitter art challenges starting with the <a href="http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/virtual-studio/">Virtual Studio setup by Sarah McIntyre </a>which currently does #MythicalMashup (Mon), #ShapeChallenge (Tue/Wed), #PortraitChallenge (Thurs). If you want to have a challenge a day you can do #colour_collective on Friday which tends to have more finished pieces and #SaturdayScribbles on Saturday. <br />
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The theme for #SaturdayScribbles was whales and I decided to draw various whales (See above), but as I searched for whales to draw I became drawn into the what is a whale and when is a whale actually a dolphin even if it still a whale.<br />
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale">wikipedia entry</a> has Whales down as an informal group within the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacea">Cetacea order</a> usually excluding dolphin and porpoises. If you google 'are dolphins whales' you will find the internet does not have a coherent position (quelle suprise!), and it doesn't take long to find examples of marine mammals that are called whales but are infact dolphins e.g. the killer whale or orca. This is of course down to the way humans have named animals like when ancient Spanish mariners called orcas whale assassins which was translated into killer whale. There are 5 other dolphins that are named whales including the False Killer Whale who must be really annoyed at not only at being mistaken for a killer whale, and being thought to be extinct, but not ever getting their own name.<br />
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Yet in the end until dolphins/whales understand English they are never going to get annoyed at what we do or don't call them. idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669381836524967109.post-69053370129118070122018-03-11T14:19:00.001-07:002018-03-11T14:19:21.153-07:00Tardigrade Mum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This one did well on Twitter as part of a weekend Studio Teabreak challenge to draw a Tardigrade. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade">tardigrade</a> is one resilient micro-animal that can withstand both extremes of temperature, survive in space, not have to eat or drink for long periods. As it was Mothers Day weekend I turned it into a parenting cartoon.idrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11834141843194061519noreply@blogger.com0