Matt Buck's Hack Cartoons

The old cultural worries are back to go alongside our more mundane concerns about the lack of a decent centre forward and one-paced right wingers. Oh well, here's to a happy couple of weeks whingeing ...

The Palme d'Or goes to Warwickshire's finest director and the race drawing several posts below was right on the money. My source, who reliably informed me that Ken was up and in the running, is a midlands man himself, so he obviously knew just what he was talking about!

You can see another drawing of Ken on my site in the caricature section. It harks back to one of his first film triumphs - Kes - you know, that one with the boy and the bird ... and Brian Glover pretending to be Bobby Charlton.

The posters all show the lad in a vigorous pose and somehow it suits the director too.

... on the joy of home wireless networking - not that I've got around to it yet. Still, it's the bank holiday at last. Hurray!

Another third of the busy day - an editorial cartoon.

I have to finish this supplement cover today all about the joys of working for a union ... nothing like a challenge! Then I can get on with another drawing and the never-ending pile of paperwork that grows every damn time I look at it.

Been trying to sort out my web site, which is a bit of a mess. I really need to go it focused as a proper portfolio site - and then I can do my existential musing here instead. Today, I've been working on sorting out my caricature section. I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts ...

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This is another drawing of three directors in the race for the Palme D'or (the prize for the best feature film at Cannes). Here you can see (from right to left) Pedro Almodovar, Ken Loach and Sofia Coppola battling it out. The temptation to do Sofia and her horse as interchangeable was hard to resist ...

This is the final image that will appear in the one of the daily papers that Screen will publish during this years festival. As you can see, it features all nine jurors, who are all famous actors or directors.

From right to left they are: Elia Suleiman (Director), Tim Roth (actor), Zhang Ziyi (actress), Samuel L. Jackson (actor), Monica Belluci (actress), Patrice Leconte (Director), Helena Bonham-Carter (actress) and Lucretia Martel (Director.)

The chap at the front is the president of the jury Wong Kar-Wai.

It's been a real challenge caricaturing nine people at once and then shoehorning them into another film reference scene, while keeping it consistent and plausible. Fun though - hope you agree.

At the moment I'm working on a large caricature of the nine jury members for the Cannes Film Festival. I'm drawing this for Screen International. I've had an initial rough approved - the idea is based on a famous scene from 12 Angry Men, probably the best film about evidence and juries ever. Here's the rough drawing and I'll post some versions of the work as I get closer to finishing it.

I've been drawing the UK's PM for too many years now - and I'm starting to feel just as dried-up and tired as he looks. Check out pictures of him back in 1997 to today and you can see just how horrible politics really is ...