Matt Buck's Hack Cartoons

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28th November 2007

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

A recent commission.

It is a busy time of year for political cartoonists and a lot of old rhetoric is about to get recycled. A commissioned drawing for the Local Government Association.

A new political magazine cover image. Of course, a lot of these things actually missed their targets...but it only took one.

A recent commissioned drawing for the Times Educational Supplement about the inspection regime for higher education teaching.

Our national flag carrier airline, British Airways (or BA, as it calls itself now) has been fined for manipulating the price of transatlantic air tickets.



Foolishly, it had trusted that its partner in crime, Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic, wouldn't snitch to the US regulators about the price-fixing cartel they were running. But Beardie's chaps squealed and now BA are facing some very hefty fines.

Amazingly, Virgin got let off for telling... and there are some very unhappy customers of both companies around now.

Free market economics, my arse, to paraphrase someone intelligent.

Channel 4 News

Several examples of 'snap' from the newspaper cartoonists this morning after the death of film director Ingmar Bergman and the visit of Gordon Brown to George Bush at Camp David. (What a sentence that is, when you reread it.)

Peter Brookes of The Times has this - and so does Jas, who is covering for Nick Garland at the Telegraph.

Dave Brown in the Indy has more of a gag treatment for the same image - and it's the one that made me laugh.

Steve Bell's done a variation on the theme. His drawing of Brown is particularly lovely, with his head in his hands and I bet it is too.

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.

And, if you wondered what the political and economic effect of the floods was going to be, here are two You Tube videos of the Vodafone Headquarters near Newbury. They are clearly, going to be out of commission for a while.

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.

Dr David Kelly was found dead on this day in 2003. This cartoon never saw the light of publication at that time.

Now this, promises to be terrific - although a bit irritating if you shelled out for a book copy of his complete drawings ...

A drawing about the use of increasing use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) inside the NHS.

An elegant piece of interactive content from the Guardian. The prologue of the Tour de France in a beautifully car-less and sunny London was fantastic too.

Joel Mishon, owner of Cartoonstock, has kindly made a thoughtful contribution to the long-running debate about syndicates and stock artwork. His comment, (which is No.9, No 9...) is well worth a read.

And it was good to be told we were having a balanced debate. Cheers Joel.

Chichi Parrish has a beautiful joke about the new smoking ban here. Double-click on the image at the other end for a good view.

Courtesy of Rod McKie's blog, comes sad news of Bud Handelsmann's death. He was a fine and funny US cartoonist. Rod has posted some excellent examples of his work from Freaky Fables, a long-running and excellent set of parodies of well-known tales and myths. It's well-worth a look. And a laugh is a great way to remember someone.

There's an elegant review at the Nether-World blog of Taking Liberties, a new film about some very serious changes the government have made in UK law. These effect every person in the country, negatively in my opinion. Unfortunately, the film, unlike the laws, is a very limited release but hopefully it will soon be due for a DVD release.

The drawing was recently commissioned by Computing newspaper.