Infectious Laughter
March 31, 2020 in General
Cartoon © Pete Dredge
Naturally many cartoonists have been indulging in some sick humour whilst trying to cope under lockdown. These are from the bunkers of Procartoonists members, including the very funny and worryingly accurate Dredge cartoon above.
© Sarah Boyce
Of course most of us are used to working locked down at home. This is Sarah Boyce’s take on home working.
© Neil Dishington
It has even allowed us to revisit the cartoon cliche, well demonstrated here by Dish.
@ Jeremy Banx
The over-seventies are particularly locked up under lockdown. This from the FT by Banx.
© Guy Venables
And of course we can’t touch each other. This from the ceiling of the household of the great master Guy Venables.
© KJ Lamb
Another art inspired cartoon this from Kathryn Lamb for The Spectator. A bit too much face touching going on there too.
© Dave Brown
Naturally a little bit of politics is inevitable as Boris belatedly tries to hold back the tide. Here the ‘Cnut’ Johnson is rendered by Dave Brown for The Independent.
© Andy Davey
More on Boris’s effort on containment from Andy Davey….with a rather precient final frame.
© Steve Bright
In international news Donald Trump’s every pronouncement is – as usual – going viral, as perfectly illustrated here by Brighty.
© Roz Asquith
Roz Asquith takes a wry look at how some people might work from home.
© Rebecca Hendin
A public information strip by Rebecca Hendin for The New Statesman
© The Surreal McCoy
With people struggling to travel back to their own countries an archive cartoon from the Surreal McCoy seems very apt.
© Glenn Marshall
While you lot all worry about catching Covid 19 I’m in blind panic that I’m down to my last 250 toilet rolls!!!
© Tat Effby
This by Tat Effby shows the toilet roll I missed buying!
© Colin Whittock
Colin Whittock also concerns himself with the toilet paper crisis.
© Rupert Besley
Some distance learning from Rupert Besley.
© Wilbur Dawbarn
More spatial awareness. This by Wilbur.
© Andrew Birch
Birch concerns himself with how criminals are having to adapt now we’re all permanently at home and burglary is less of an option.
© James Mellor
On a more positive note this is James Mellor’s tribute to the key workers who are being overwhelmed at the moment.
© Royston Robertson
and here’s a VERY true cartoon by Royston for the Nursing Standard.
© Graeme Bandeira
Graeme Bandeira has been producing some wonderful and moving cartoons for The Yorkshire Post. This one has been shared particularly widely.
© Nick Newman
and finally applause to Nick Newman for this cartoon in The Sunday Times.
Thanks to the PCO members for allowing me to pilfer their work.
Remember folks to clunk, click every trip and always use a condom.
by Glenn Marshall
Draw The Coronavirus – The eBook!
December 17, 2020 in Comment, Events, General, News
The ‘Great’ Glenn Marshall (WINNER of Draw The Coronavirus competition) writes:
Many cartoonists, illustrators, artists and fly-by-nights have been taking refuge from the cruel world by joining in Martin Rowson’s regular cartoon challenges. He sets a subject and we all vent spleen (most of us were in lock down and online twiddling our thumbs-up emojis anyway so it gave us something to fill time between Joe Wicks and hitting the cooking sherry)
Cartoon by © Steve Bell
At the end of April, the Museums Association and the BBC launched ‘Museums From Home Day’. Martin, in collaboration with The Cartoon Museum, set the challenge of #DrawTheCoronavirus. The Musuem has now launched a fabulous ebook of the entries, featuring around 200 cartoons by 71 different artistes including Ralph Steadman, Glenn Marshall, Steve Bell, Ben Jennings, Glenn Marshall, Nick Newman, Jeremy Banx, Glenn Marshall, Steve Bright, Zoom Rockman, Grizelda, oh and Glenn Marshall.
Cartoon by © Rob Murray
ALL proceeds from the book are going towards the Cartoon Museum’s fundraising appeal to secure their long-term future after a difficult year with the pandemic. The eBook will be available to buy for a modest £10 from their online store,
Cartoon by © Grizelda
Here are couple of quotes from the press release:
Joe Sullivan, Cartoon Museum Director:
“It has been fantastic to see the creativity and humour of these artists in the face of coronavirus, reflecting issues everyone has been struggling with through lockdown, and using it as fuel to make us laugh. It is a pleasure to work with them all and share their amazing, work with everyone in this e-book. All proceeds from sales of the e-book go directly to helping the museum to secure our future, and we are very thankful to all the artists involved for donating their work to the e-book. Thank you too all our supporters for helping us to survive through the pandemic, and we hope this book brings you as much fun reading it as we had making it!”
Martin Rowson:
“Faced with an invisible enemy, a question should be nagging away at the back of each of our minds: what’s this virusy bastard LOOK like? And, as it’s our job to reimagine our leaders the better to enable us to laugh at them, who’s more qualified to define Corona in all its Pandemic Covidness than cartoonists? Forget electron microscopes – here you’ll find the truest & most accurate depictions of our Common Foe!”
.….and another quote from Martin Rowson:
“Challenge won by the Great @marshallcartoon”
Here’s Martin talking about ‘Draw The Coronavirus’ on BBC Radio 4 Today programme back in April:
Cartoon by © Steve Bright
Cartoon by © Nick Newman
For anyone wanting to join in with Mr Rowson’s caricature challenges they’re frequently set on his twitter feed @MartinRowson
Cartoon by © Zoom Rockman
By the way, did I mention who won it?
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