Monday’s cartoon: Climate Conspiracy!

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Monday’s Cartoon: Col Gaddafi…

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Good grief…
From the looks of the cartoon on Times online, it seems someone got hold of the cartoon, and in a moment of helpfulness wrecked the levels and messed up the colour balance… I dread to think what the printed version now looks like…

Update: The print version is good. Fortunately only the web version that looks odd.

And now some rallying…

Cartoonists, illustrators and other creatives across the land, regularly encounter art directors, editors, buyers and suchlike who simply don’t expect to pay.
Their impudence is often utterly unbelievable and would’ve been deemed completely unacceptable in any other situation, yet it doesn’t stop them from offending every single time they commission new work.
The situation is not made any easier by the recession, which is being used as an excuse to slash already low fees.

Don’t let them get away with it!

Now watch this film and nod knowingly:

From Monday’s paper: Iranian elections…

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There is often talk of cartoonists finding inspiration in other cartoonists’ work – stylistic or conceptual.
I like to think that this sort of thing is less obvious in my work these days than it was a few years ago, but once in a while it does shine through.

When doing today’s cartoon for example, I was mindful of a cartoon and blog post by Telegraph’s Christian Adams, from February this year – about comedy timing.
He demonstrated how in a four frame cartoon you can greatly accentuate the punch line, simply by leaving the border of the third panel.
At the time, using the border to manipulate the pace had never crossed my mind, but it’s a brilliant observation, and a trick that I now am very conscious of when doing multi-panel cartoons. I’ve gone further in this cartoon, by actually removing the entire background, but the principle is the same.

Apologies and many thanks Christian!

From Monday’s paper: Speaker Martin…

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From Monday’s Paper: The Nuremberg Defence…

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From Monday’s Paper: Swine Flu…

Never has a recession been accompanied by such an appropriate pandemic…

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Monday’s Cartoon: Mucking Around…

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Fun on a Friday…if you can find it!

It might just be me being useless, but I can’t seem to find Livedraw on Telegraph online today…again. They really are terrific at hiding regular content from regular readers at the Telegraph. It’s probably a ploy to make us trawl through the entire site in search for the one thing we’re actually interested in, but it’s hardly a clever way of encouraging people to return!

Anyway, all is not lost. It’s possible to see the latest installment of Livedraw on Blower’s own page, and I’d suggest you do:

Good fun!

Unscripted…

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Poor Dave.
He did the whole speech without the help of an autocue – a feat more impressive than the words he spoke. Yet when the nation’s rolling news channels geared up to analyse his hour long “I’m so not Gordon”- conference address, the Inquest into the death of Diana (Undoubtedly after orders from the prime minister) released grainy, yet unseen footage of the people’s princess’ last moments.
No more Tory Top Story.