Matt Buck's Hack Cartoons

The G8 summit in Hoikkaido, Japan, during July 2008. This is a cross-posting with Tribune.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

The Prime Minister's public willy-waving and incautious use of language (unprecedented threat*) is busy doing some of the terrorists work for them. Parliament is, clearly, in a right panic about a measure which many people* seem to think is currently unnecessary. Thus, we all move onwards towards hysteria junction again, via more unnecessary legislation.

* from rhetorically speaking. Ther is a very similar list at C4 News here too.

UPDATE: Government wins by 9 votes. Thanks to the Democratic Unionist party. Oh well, it will have to be thrown out by the Lords instead.


Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Drawn for Tribune in the UK. 7th November 2007.
Matt Buck’s animated drawings

There has been much coverage of Mr Blair's extended moan about the media - lots of people have quite rightly pointed out this is the pot calling the kettle black and so forth. It sent me off in search of an old drawing from 2004 when the rows over Iraq were fresh(ish) to the world and Tony could still dream of a nice legacy. Usually, I'm horribly embarrassed about old work but I still like this one - although, I'd never draw it that way now...

UPDATE
There's a more elegant summing up of what the PM said and why it was nonsense here. A hat tip to Adrian Monck for remembering and digging up a fine bit of written thinking.

... is published here.

Continuing the launch of Britain's first regular digital cartoon diary, today, cartooning master John Jensen has posted his first digital drawing.

Forthcoming attractions include the debut of Martin Rowson and a new animation from me.

The artwork is available under a Creative Commons licence which means it can be used and spread across the web, but not for commercial purposes and it must not be altered from its original form. You can read more about Creative Commons here.

The cartoonists from Tribune (not quite the men from Uncle, but nearly) launched a digital cartoon diary last week - and have started to get some reactions to it. One in particular made me laugh as political blogger Tim Worstall replied with some vigour to the PR effort ... I quote ...

Tim > My suggestion would be to start by promoting to blogs that share your view of the world.<

Trib>It would be a very boring and sterile debate if we only spoke to people we knew we
were going to agree with wouldn't it?

Tim > Well, if you could manage to get closer to agreeing with reality that would be interesting....

But, a gentleman, he posted a link anyhow, so thanking you Mr Worstall (doffs cap, tugs forelock etc etc).