Tag Archive | "satire"

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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Your very own Grant Morrison guide to writing!

Monday, January 31, 2011

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Yes, you too can now write like psychedelic quantum magic comics scribe Grant Morrison! Just cut out and keep this handy guide to how to write like Grant next to your writing desk at all times and four-colour stardom shall surely only be a matter of time!

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“I’ll be your Huckleberry…”

Friday, January 14, 2011

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There’s been a lot of discussion in the media recently about a ‘revised’ edition of Huckleberry Finn by the immortal Mark Twain, which has been ‘cleaned up’ to appease over-sensitive modern readers – most noticably a certain ‘n’ word in relation to the coloured character Jim has been removed. I really can’t abide people revising [...]

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Embrace the love of the Ancient Ones – have you tried the Necronomicon in your life?

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

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This had me giggling away before my last blood-soaked summoning of the Ancient Ones (I was summoning them for coffee and cake, they are suckers for coffee and cake), done in the style of a US TV ad to persuade folks to a religious group, except in this case it’s extolling the virtues of the [...]

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Tintin in England

Thursday, December 2, 2010

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This Tintin in England mock-up, where he is partaking of the fine old native tradition of football accompanied by lashings of the old ultra-violence, is by Dran and comes via Superpunch by way of Jay Taylor – have a look at the large size before someone issues a copyright takedown notice! I especially like the [...]

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Hipster Hitler

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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Okay, how come I didn’t know about this before? Chris “I probably did have better things to do but, hey, you know” Lynch pointed me towards the Hipster Hitler webcomics. Simple but effective artwork (almost clip art style in places, slightly reminiscent of Get Your War On) and a subject matter that many will consider [...]

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Rude Britannia

Monday, June 14, 2010

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The first part of the BBC’s Rude Britannia aired this evening, in a format similar to others in the series (such as the fine Comics Britannia), with some good talking heads – including Martin Rowson and Steve Bell – dropped into the artwork, which was drawn (no pun intended) from the finest of that first [...]

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Chris Ware does Fortune 500

Monday, April 26, 2010

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I missed seeing this the other week but fortunately Wim spotted it – the great Chris Ware doing a cover for Fortune 500, complete with homes being lost under the waves, a US Treasury sliding off the end of the country as money is plundered from it, a Stocks’n'Bonds Casino and a nice sign welcoming [...]

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Maps, politics, art, cartoons and satire

Monday, April 26, 2010

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The BBC has been running a fascinating series, The Beauty of Maps, over the last week, ahead of the Magnificent Maps exhibition at the British Library in London (which runs from the 30th of April to 19th September). As well as being an interesting series on the history and emerging science and culture of cartography [...]

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Goofy meets Lynch

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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Its the cinematic collaboration we’ve all been waiting for: Disney’s Goofy working with master of the surreal, the auteur David Lynch. Apparently Goofy has been a huge admirer of Lynch’s work going right back to Eraserhead and Lynch has been keen to use the Hollywood veteran in one of his projects but has been holding [...]

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Everyone is Stupid…

Thursday, July 9, 2009

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Rejoice, a new Peter Bagge collection hits the shelves today from Fantagraphics, Everyone is Stupid Except Me & Other Astute Observations. I do like Bagge’s sarcastic, satirical style, offset by his very cartoony characters.

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