The forgetful Peter Hain featured in this animation about Labour’s dubious donations which I made for Channel 4 back in November 2007. Peter is the orange one.
12 January 2008
UPDATED: 15th January 2008
There’s a good short analysis of how untransparent Mr Hain’s financial arrangements were here
Absolutely terrific news from the USA where Ann Telnaes has become the Washington Post’s first animated political cartoonist. Well done Ann. They’ve picked their time well with the primary season in full swing. I’d like to think the UK media will be up to speed with this sort of thing by the time our election comes around. Do you think it will be?
11th January 2007
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
Who’d really want to be idolised? Published here and here.
9th January 2008
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
Well, the pollsters and the pundits got it all wrong, she won, if rather more closely than she would have imagined a fortnight ago. And that makes the race for the Democratic nomination very interesting and harder to call. McCain won for the Republican ticket. I think there’s going to be a game of chicken for each party about guessing who their candidate is going to be fighting against for the actual presidential contest. Artwork coming soon…
9th January 2008
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
I lived in a America for a while when I was younger and I have had a serious interest in how the place is run ever since. My time there coincided with Bill Clinton’s attempts to become President of the United States.
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It was an real education for me in how elections and the selling of any candidate are undertaken. The positioning of Clinton’s campaign about George Bush senior, the incumbent president of the time, was wonderfully accurate, and of course, highly successful. The Clinton campaign successfully negated Bush’s trump card of ‘experience’ and incumbency by pointing up his ‘cold’ personality and inability to appear to listen to people convincingly. As this famous clip shows, Bush was certainly not naturally chatty or charming in his dealings in the media or people. This clip really highlighted it, as he completely failed to hear or connect with the question the lady asked. Stick with the film and then watch how Clinton deals with it. Particularly watch the body language he deploys as he talks and listens. I imagine Barack Obama’s team have been watching a lot of these old clips too because they appear to be pulling off a similar trick in projecting the youthful and people-oriented Obama against against the clever but stumbling and cold Hillary Clinton now.
The great cartoonist Steve Brodner has an interesting interpretation of what is happening to Hillary right now, right here too – all courtesy of The New Yorker.
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
It was indeed a bad day for Hillary Clinton. Published above and here.
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
A sketchbook pencil and wash cartoon caricature of Hillary, Bill and Chelsea Clinton. I wonder whether it will end up being a happy new year for the first woman of the clan?
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
December 2007
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
’Tis the season to draw daft ecards…mind you, I did get to do kazoos…one of which could even be desribed as flirtatious.
19th December 2007
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
