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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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Peter Brookes – Cartoonist Of The Year

Sunday, March 28, 2010

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Peter Brookes, noted cartoonist at The Times was named cartoonist of the year at the 2010 British Press Awards this week. His work is strongly political and never afraid of going for the jugular, just as a political cartoonist should. There’s a slideshow of his work here and a few selected favourites below (via Tom)

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Peter Brookes – a day in the life

Friday, October 16, 2009

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Damian Whitworth in The Times profiles top political cartoonist Peter Brookes as the artist is the subject of an exhibition at the Chris Beetles Gallery in London: “That got me into a bit of hot water, which I was quite glad about. He said condoms were not the answer to the continent’s problems. To my [...]

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Return to Bash Street

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Leo Baxendale, one of the true treasures of Brit comics, kindly drops us a line today to let us know that he’s in The Times recalling the early 1950s and how as he created a variety of illustrations for different businesses he was approaching the mighty DC Thomson organisation in Dundee about making his own [...]

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