Matt Buck's Hack Cartoons

If you are one of the people who kindly linked to me and my drawings over the past two and a bit years, I'd be very happy if you would update your links to my new site at http://hackcartoonsdiary.com. Reciprocal linkage will be supplied in return. Many thanks :-)

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

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Matt Buck’s animated drawings

After two and a bit years, it is time to finally move this bloggery-tinkery into the world of grown-up blog concerns. Please click the picture to take the trip.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

The government has launched a green paper on welfare reform targeted in part at removing incapacity payments from one million people. The devil with these sort of uncosted and 'bold' initiatives is always in the detail and how they might be administered to take account of individual circumstances. Often, this results in the employment of many new civil servants to administer all the new regulations and systems required. After a while the government discovers it needs to cut costs and these new civil servants return to the ranks of the not-technically-fully-employed. At this point we rediscover the initial problem is much as it was before.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Who can save the national economy? Click the picture for the animated political cartoon at Channel 4 News or, go here.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Coming on Friday...

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Drawn in the wake of the release of the first Guantanamo Bay prison camp interview video. You can see the images all over the web now, or go here, now.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

No, no, I am Banksy!

You get the point, the identity of the artist formerly known as Banksy, described by one of my professional colleagues, as the great visual satirist of our generation has been outed by the Mail on Sunday (oh, the glamour.)

It turns out the elusive artist is called Robin and went to to a nice school. It’s a shame the paper couldn’t bring itself to talk about what Robin of Banksy draws because the message is really more important than the medium - or the artist.

I'd like to encourage everyone reading this to claim to be Banksy too and then, perhaps, we can confuse the Mail on Sunday and help the artist retain his desired wealthy anonymity. The clever so-and-so.


Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Click the picture, or here, for the animated political cartoon for Channel 4 News on the start of the official recession.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

After two and a bit years, it is time to move this bloggery-tinkery into
the world of grown-up blog concerns.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Coming soon...

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Sketchbook drawing of President Nicholas Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the G8 summit in Japan in July 2008. The finished drawing is coming soon.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Robert Mugabe was lambasted (no, really) by Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday. Miliband was on an official visit to South Africa. The reporting of the visit was interesting, focusing as it did, on a headline 2,000 Zimbabweans sheltering in a church in central Johannesburg. It was as if this was the entire migration problem in South Africa, the 2 million, or more, Zimbabweans scattered across northern South Africa in the past five years appear to have been overlooked. However, the recent riots confirm they are still there. (In this report, foreigners mainly means Zimbabweans.)
Click the image, or here, for the animated political cartoon

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Coming here at Channel 4 News sometime before Robert Mugabe leaves office.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Cartoon about the stand Conservative MP David Davis is taking on resigning his seat in the house of commons and refighting a by-election at Haltemprice and Howden. This cartoon made for campaign group No2ID.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Retail price inflation arrives at the Bank of England, for the immediate attention of the governor, Mervyn King. Click the picture or go to Channel 4 news.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

The price of oil cartoon from Hack Cartoons.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Channel 4 News is running a season on being poor in England. Click the picture for the animated cartoon, or click here.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

The Shadow Home Secretary and Conservative MP, David Davis, has resigned from his seat in the House of Commons. He says he has done this to highlight attacks on the personal liberties of the British people by government legislation. To me, it appears many of his public concerns lie in and around information technology, its commercial and governmental uses and misuses. This is a subject about which parliament is notoriously badly informed. Privately, his reasons may well also be connected to internal strains in the Conservative party.
Having said this, I think it is interesting and laudable that any politician would choose to make a statement and take an action like this on an issue which is so difficult to explain clearly and well. You might also wonder how much of an influence the idea of the man-in-the-white-suit and Hamilton sleaze-buster of years gone by, Martin Bell, has also been on Mr Davis' chosen tactics.


Matt Buck’s animated drawings

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Matt Buck’s animated drawings