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Cartoon: Pirates off Somalia

Somali pirates and oil supertanker kidnappers cartoon for Channel 4 News by Matt Buck Hack Cartoons. Copyright and all image rights Matt Buck Hack Cartoons

Published at Channel 4 News.

21st century pirates

UPDATE: Entertaining post by Robert Peston of the BBC. The responses are particularly good.

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The trade this week

Journalism 1.0 and 2.0. There will be more of this.

LOLGriffin

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Who said the government was short of money?

Via the BBC

Flush Gordon in the 21st Century

Flush Gordon Brown cartoon @ Matt Buck Hack cartoons Diary

Please click the picture.

A static version of this image is appearing in Tribune this week

The brighter side of data loss – the BNP names

The British National Party (BNP) has had its entire membership list published. Get the details via The Register.

UPDATE: 9.30am Wednesday

Much more everywhere this morning, but you could do worse than start here

UPDATED UPDATE: 11.15am

Adrian Monck has an interesting idea here and Harry’s Place raises the thorny issue of the right to privacy for members of the BNP.

And someone has already done the BNP member google map mash up. Via Charles Arthur.

Cover for Guardian Education supplement – cartoon

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It is lovely to get a commissioned job like this. Very often they are also interesting thinking challenges as you digest the written words of the reporter and production staff and then attempt to define some of the themes in a piece of drawn communication.

Under attack – cartoon

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Home truths about child protection – cartoon

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Published at Channel 4 News

UPDATED: 5pm
Blogger A very British dude has a good piece on the story here – I particularly liked the very last paragraph

UPDATED UPDATE: Noon on Saturday.
Mick Fealty at Brassneck has a decent post too – and, also, the beginnings of a decent conversation at the bottom of it. The back and forth with blogger ‘It’s a free country‘ reveals some interesting underlying attitudes…

UPDATED UPDATE UPDATE: 5pm Sunday. Paul Linford has evidence of the party political fighting over the moral high ground for those who want to see it in action, but more importantly, I want to offer a hat-tip for Paul’s promotion of a cartoonist new to me and who is appearing regularly on his blog. I don’t know Slob, but he has some talent and it is good to see him getting publication with a good ‘editor.’ I hope he is being paid something for the time and effort his work requires.

101 uses for a George Bush – cartoon…continued

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Following on from the is-it-ok-to-poke-fun-at-Dubya-uses-in-the-afterlife conversation, this archive image got into Jon Kudelka’s cartoon project. If you visit the next link, you will also see nice work by my fellow British colleagues Royston Robertson and Steve Bright, who are all members of the UK Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation.

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