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When the official UK economic world is falling down around you, why not go down the pub and add to the national problem with alcohol? Click the picure or go to C4 News.

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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

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

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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

Prime Minister Gordon Brown is on a visit to America. Click the picture to watch an animated political cartoon about this, or go here to Channel 4 News.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Animated political cartoon published at Channel 4 News, or click the picture. The news site has a handy short guide about why the fact that banks no longer trust one another enough to lend money to each other matters. And what this may mean for the rest of us.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

The Lords issued a report on the economic effect of immigration into the UK this week. Click the picture for the animated cartoon or go here to Channel 4 News.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

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Matt Buck’s animated drawings

A French for beginners animated cartoon caricature of President Sarkosy, Carla Bruni and Gordon Brown is available here or, just click the picture.

UPDATED: Blue-Lou McKeever has a fine Sarkozy joke here too.


Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Two stills from the full animation which you can see here. Or just click the picture.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Click the picture for the animation on five years since the invasion of Iraq - or click here.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Click the picture or see it published here.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Well after all that, nothing is decided at all. It looks to have been a costly night for the Billaries for despite confident and widely publicised expectations, they have not knocked Obama out of the race for the Democratic nomination. They can't be happy about that, and if the stories about the amount of telephone polling Hillary's campaign used in the last few days are true, she must have used a lot of money to try and fight the momentum Obama had clearly developed. For Obama's part, he must be disappointed he didn't do better yet. The Republican race looks clearer and has clarified the split in their ranks, Mike Huckabee, the former preacher did well in the south, where I used to live, and this seems to have hurt the wealthy Mitt Romney's chances. So, John McCain it looks to be. (I wonder how Ming Campbell feels about the apparent attitudes to John McCain's age?) There is an updated Channel 4 News animation here.
UPDATED:
Wonkette has a great description of the night as a pretty much a grim $100-million stalemate.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Published on America's Super Tuesday. Or, click the picture.
UPDATED: All about Hillary and all about Barack.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Published here.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

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Returning visitors may know that from time to time I like to think about changing forms of creativity in drawing, and now is one of them. Some good and interesting things are starting to happen in the UK media which are really encouraging to see. Patrick Blower, who used to work at the Evening Standard when it still believed in publishing print news cartoons, has developed a method for drawing in a video which you can find, weekly, on Friday's, at the Daily Telegraph website. My colleague at Channel 4, Beau Bo D’Or has been branching out from his still photomontage into moving photomontage and is having a good deal of success with it. I have my own explorations in a hybrid form of print and simple animated cartooning and it must be working, as the notorious Guido Fawkes is starting to 'borrow' stuff - see below's screenshot web clipping from his site.

I am absolutely positive we three won't be the last either...on either issue. I note Mr Fawkes's support of the open digital rights group with a sort of smile.
UPDATE: Beau Bo D’Or writes (and comments)It's Guido's second offence. He used my Channel 4 animation without permission from C4 or myself. He ran it directly from my server which nearly crashed my site.

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The Northern Rock bank rescue plan is announced to the public by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alastair Darling. Published here and here.
21st January 2008

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

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