The government has announced one of its periodic relaunches of the National Identity card scheme. I would urge anyone who is interested in this debate to visit NO2ID’s website to learn more about what this scheme actually involves for you. The drawing above is a take-off of John Tenniel’s original image. Tenniel famously illustrated Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland books. (Every cartoonist has to have a go at this image, it’s in the rules somewhere…)
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The dead heat between Clinton and Obama is becoming a real problem for the Democratic party in its efforts to win the presidency. Click the picture or see it published here.
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Well, Hillary Clinton appears to have off staved the doomsayers* for another day – and now it’s Barak Obama’s turn to be unhappy. I can’t help feeling the real problem the Democratic party has is that it does not know who is most likely to beat John McCain in the autumn. Anyone got a clue about that?
*including me
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One very large story at the moment is the state of Britain’s existing power infrastructure and how well it is coping with the new digital demands that are being placed on it. This cartoon was a pocket illustration for a small foray in that direction by one of my clients.
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Another post for anyone who loves the art of drawing and trying to say something with the effort made in each one. Ronald Searle, born Cambridge, on this day in 1920.
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One for those of you who are interested in the niche world of editorial cartooning. We have an ‘anonymous’ in the United States who is using his anonymity to offer some trenchant criticism of what it is fellow professionals are saying in their work. He calls himself the Bad cartoonist. Needless to say, it is kicking up a lovely stink which Alan Gardner is reporting on at his Daily Cartoonist blog.
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Joseph Stiglitz – former chief economist at the world bank has co-written a book in which he attempts to measure the cost of the war on terror and the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. There’s a good article about it in the Guardian today.
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Matt Buck’s animated drawings
The book Flat earth news on the struggle for the soul of newspaper reporting has been getting a lot of media attention in the last month. This is unsurprising in itself as there is absolutely nothing media professionals like better than discussing themselves. The author Nick Davies raises some very smelly issues about what has happened to newspapers during the time I have worked in them. And his line about PR providing a ‘solution’ to the problem of volume news provision while journalists have been fighting chronic underfunding of editorial teams, certainly rings true to me. There’s a review of the book from the London Review of Books here.
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