By Cherian George & Sonny Liew Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262543019 Political cartooning has taken some considerable knocks over recent decades, with the decline in newspaper and magazine budgets being one of the major reasons. But it’s not just the twilight years of the press barons that have seen the steady erosion of this form […]
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The Best Of Britain’s Political Cartoons 2014
Edited By Tim Benson Publisher: Scribe ISBN: 9781922247643 The year, again, seems to slip past swiftly, but twelve months is a long time and it’s easy to forget those individual incidents that punctuate each day’s news. Fortunately, that’s a good thing, because each page of The Best Of Britain’s Political Cartoons offers a snapshot into […]
The precarious life of a political cartoonist
This article by Andy Davey first appeared in The Jester issue 476. Here’s a secret. Don’t tell anyone but… political cartooning is a doddle. Easy-peasy. The stories are set up for you in the news every morning. All you have to do is point out the hypocrisy inherent in most political stories with sufficient self-righteous […]
