Matt Buck's Hack Cartoons

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.

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

A commissioned piece for a magazine cover. The headline feature is about welfare reform and the extension of means testing over the past decade. This theme sent me off in search of a good strong image and a simple strapline. I landed at an excellent ad campaign run by Barnardo’s which kicked up a right stink back in 2003.