Hello Gorehub kind of you to visit.
This was an interesting one to do as I ‘lost’ the caricatre halfway through, that means I think the simple black and white is better than the colour version.
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
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26th October 2007
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
Alan Pearce and Clare Christian have collaborated on a marvellous book for this Christmas*. Anybody who feels the world is going to ruin because of political correctness ought to really enjoy it. I’d like to embarrass Clare now by posting a link to the evidence of her as the Young Publisher of the Year. Here it is. I should also hat-tip Jim Banting, Clare Weber and Liam Relph who helped make the whole thing look just lovely.
25th October 2007
* Caution. I illustrated it and provided the silly drawing for the cover.
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
Cash for honours – we discover how much co-operation John Yates and the Met Police received from the very prominent people who were under investigation for the sale of national honours and titles. Published above and here. 24th October 2007
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
UPDATE: Tom Bower has a review on The Guardian today which gives an overview of the whole affair and its key players.
This is excellent news. Hello again Ian.
23rd October 2007
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
The Economist takes a long view of the story and why it still matters. It is well worth a read. This weekend’s PR spin was about Rock Chairman, Matt Ridley, (a former Economist employee) not receiving any payoff as he leaves his job. But there was also another little story, about the small matter of another £3bn loan from the Bank of England to prop up the ailing institution. Total Rock borrowing from the Bank of England (the taxpapyer, if you like) is now believed to be in the region of £16bn. If you believe what Hemscott are reporting, Northern Rock’s funding problems remain acute.
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
And it’s not just on his trousers…
Fat boy’s become a trendsetter.
Link from Chicken Yogurt – 22nd October 2007
This is old news, but still good news. A hat-tip to Mr Quittner, wherever you are today…
25th October 2007
The problems with making jokes post below, touches on another interesting post from Virtual Economics in which Seamus McCauley talks about the increasing fusion between factual and opinion-based news coverage. This is very interesting to someone like me because essentially it’s what visual satirists do; try to reveal truths, or opinions, through analogy, visual symbolism and jokes.
Seamus uses a lovely phrase in his piece – the genuine value of satirical news reporting – and goes on to talk about how one of the major problems that today’s conventional journalists are finding, is that the predominant industry business models no longer support what it is, journalists do. In this context he argues, the value of satire, goes up.
‘The gap between news and news satire gets ever smaller, and it seems our understanding of current affairs is all the richer for it.’
Sincere hat-tip to Mr McCauley
A sweet spot from D-Notice
