Tag Archive | "politics"

“Pencil-necked weasel”

Thursday, May 5, 2011

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I almost missed this until author Jeff VanderMeer pointed me in the direction of this City Pages site, but apparently Neil Gaiman was insulted – pretty much verbally abused actually – by some ridiculous Republican politician in Minnesota who clearly has no manners and no decorum or any ability to conduct himself in public in [...]

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The Waiting Room

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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The increasingly must-read Cartoon Movement site which we’ve linked to a few times before, most recently for Anne Holliday and Tom Humberstone’s Drawing the Line, which charted the recent student protests in Britain and the police response to them, has a fascinating new strip up by How To Understand Israel in 60 Days author Sarah [...]

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The Cuts

Thursday, March 24, 2011

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Bloghorn reports on a new exhibition opening today, Cuts, which showcases the work of 16 young illustrators using the visual medium to pass comment on the savage public spending cuts the current coalition government seems to enjoy telling us we so desperately need (hmm, perhaps we might believe them if we didn’t see senior bankers [...]

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Pushing Mubarak off the national stage

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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The always interesting Cartoon Movement site has posted up this cartoon by Sherif Arafa, the first on the site he has posted since Mubarak stepped down from dictatorial president of Egypt. It is also the first time Sherif’s depicted Mubarak in such an openly recognisable manner and that speaks volumes for the freedom of speech [...]

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Drawing the line: students, comics and protest

Friday, February 4, 2011

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On the Cartoon Movement site Anne Holiday and Tom Humberstone have been busy posting up a series of strips, Drawing the Line, which comment on the recent massive student demonstrations that have taken place all over the country (especially the huge demo in London) in protest at the enormous hike in university fees imposed by [...]

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The Lady

Monday, November 15, 2010

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Watching the news out of Burma over the last few days following Aung San Suu Kyi’s release I’ve found myself thinking back to Guy Delisle’s excellent Burma Chronicles, a wonderful bit of travel lit as comics covering the period the artist spent living in Burma with his wife (working for Médecins Sans Frontières). One of [...]

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Politics primer

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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Vincent Caut, one of the more interesting rising stars on the French alternative comics firmament, gives a short introduction to contemporary politics on his blog (check out the rest there).  Even though I like the idea and the exquisite simplicity of the execution, I’m not sure whether this strip is not an illustration of the [...]

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Ken MacLeod video interview

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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Missed this, but one of my very favourite authors – and indeed one of the UK’s consistently most inventive and intelligent writers – Ken MacLeod has a webcam video interview with IO9‘s Annalee Newitz for Bloggingheads.tv, discussing Ken’s books, his influences, science, the creation of synthetic lifeforms and, naturally enough for Ken, politics:

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The general election in comics

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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Confused by the live debates where party leaders switched from ‘I agree with…’ to ‘get real’ depending on opinion polls, policies which are never fully explained and indeed the actual outcome of the election viz a viz who will actually be the next government (currently they are trying to decide via the medium of musical [...]

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Darryl Cunnigham’s Tony Blair

Monday, February 1, 2010

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Darryl Cunningham does his take on Tony ‘I have no regrets’ Blair; I will just direct you to go look because if I comment on it and the man’s appearance at the Iraq War enquiry then I’ll not only be on my High Horse, I’ll be at full gallop, so go look at Darryl’s work [...]

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Ken Sprague Fund International Political Cartoon Competition 2010

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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The Ken Sprague Fund, set up in memory of the late cartoonist and campaigner for human rights and staunch supporter of socialism, has its political cartoon competition open for entries, with the 2010 competition being on the theme “Money makes the world go round: globalisation, financial meltdown, fair trade and economic justice”. The closing date [...]

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An illustrated interview about Iran

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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Isaac Littlejohn Eddy interviews Hooman Majd, author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: theParadox of Modern Iran, which isn’t directly related to our normal comics field of coverage, except, rather interestingly, he’s included some rather neat comics-style illustrations to go along with the audio segments, which makes the whole thing seem more friendly and accessible, [...]

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Family values?

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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We’re more than used to politicians espousing family values (and just as used to many of them later being caught out violating those values) but a councillor in Omagh is considering Family Guy values. His nephew told the politician that he had a resemblance to Peter Griffin; Mr Hussey said he was not exactly flattered [...]

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