Matt Buck’s Hack Cartoons Diary

If you read nothing else today, read this.

Courtesy of the well-informed Rod McKie. Having read his post, I like to think that a good idea will survive the end of the person who had it.

In the list of the-gone-someplace-else that Rod has compiled, I have a particular fondness for Doug Marlette, an American editorial cartoonist, who had bags of attitude and which fuelled his powerful, provocative and well-informed drawings.

In Doug’s own words, ‘If Elvis had drawn, he would have drawn cartoons.’

This morning, the media coverage has reached Oxford. I wonder how the recently flooded people of North Hull, Rotherham, Barnsley, Sheffield, South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire generally are feeling.

This drawing is for Tribune.

After the deluge, me. And some facts from the Channel 4 web site.

Here is a brilliant piece of interactivity from graphics journalist Paddy Allen.
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As Paddy’s graphic explains, the water is heading downstream from Wiltshire and the headwaters of the Thames towards major cities like Oxford and Reading.
The Guardian are also reporting that the nuclear weapons establishment at Burghfield in Berkshire is already affected by the flooding.

Courtesy of photo-journalist Sean Smith and The Guardian. As a short analysis of why nobody wins a war, this is hard to beat.

This weekend’s publishing event. There is some interesting detail on the economics of the Potter phenomenon here, courtesy of Danuta Kean.

How could anyone miss the retired John Prescott when Boris Johnson is still so much a part of our public life? The efforts made by our finest cartoonists today, in honour of Bonking Boris’s intended run for Mayor of London, shows the esteem in which this dangerously wily creature is viewed.

Peter Brookes in The Times – Steve Bell in The Guardian and Dave Brown in the Indy

And on something completely different, a hat tip to Nick Garland at the Telegraph for a nice joke – click the picture link under comment too see it.

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Anything that helps you get the idea down clearly is attractive to someone who draws