Right. Last day of the year, so I’ll be posting the winners to all the #Draw Challenges over the past 12 & a bit foul months. Right at the beginning we had no idea what he looked like - not now alas, tho @nuffinc already knew so won the #drawmatthancock Challenge!
Next up I tried to get you to embrace your inner kitsch with the #DrawAKitten Challenge. A pathetic failure, frankly, & I’d forgotten that @BurtOHare actually won this with this. Keep an eye on her throughout
Things got back to normal in January with #DrawDominicRaab, won with chilling grace by @RobertDWells with this
Then things started getting weird. A brief fortnight after launching the #DrawSajidJavid Challenge he resigned in a Dom spawned clusterfuck - though @drawinglots brilliantly rose to the occasion with our first objet trouve/food based winner, while...
...the Challenge itself halfheartedly morphed into the #DrawRishiSunak Challenge. Even tho none of us knew a thing about this squillionaire Wykehamist at the time, the fantastic @joe_ackenbush won by dredging this from the depths of his cross hatched Id!
By now we were getting very very Covidy and needed distraction. I’ve long thought that Newark (anagram of “Wanker”) MP should have been the stand out star of this endless shitrain: drove all over the fucking country in lockdown before Dom, so instinctively corrupt he doesn’t...
...even begin to understand why bunging millions to his mates or dinner guests is conceivably wrong, with his fat baby Tory face, pudgy lips & phantom moustache - I mean, what’s not to love? @JamesDFMellor captured him perfectly & made me laugh as well with this
And there now follows a brief intermission while I get up, have a shower & some breakfast. Laters, space cats!

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29 Dec 20
Right, I'm doing a very quick #DrawGavinWilliamson Challenge round-up. But here is a perfect example of the problem. @JPM06848080 produced this fine collage, but A PHOTO of Gavin looks more like Holly Johnson than it does of him Image
While this excellent line drawing from @Andrewm82239566 is more Lance Percival than Gav, just like @lightacandleOTM's lovely drawing is more young Evelyn Waugh, @AuntyNationalAH's is like that nurse off of Casualty, @cartoonsidrew is Dick van Dyke ETCETCETC ImageImageImageImage
Which is no reflection on any of you, but on him. He's a physical zero, a nothing, a dissipating guff of non-existence in an absolute vacuum. So, I'm cutting straight to the chase (and you can see all the entries here anyway martinrowson.com/draw) with the runner up & winner...
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29 Dec 20
Right, after y’day’s mammoth fascathon posting all the entries, plus the 3 winners, to the #DrawPritiPatel Challenge just been looking through the #DrawGavinWilliamson submissions, just airlifted in from the deepest Pit in Hell by flying pig. And we have a problem...
...which is this, & it’s not the fault of any of you honed & skilled limnasts out there - for I too am of your number. Nonetheless, hardly any of the dozens of entries actually look like him. He is, in fact, almost impossible to draw because he’s so wholly fucking insipid...
...vacuous, vague, unformed, inchoate, vapid & more like a dissipating fart than anything even remotely corporeal. Which, I appreciate, raises certain issues. As is ever the nature of caricature, deviate by a micron & the true depiction is lost, blown away by the merest guff...
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28 Dec 20
And as it's the Feast Day of the Holy Innocents, celebrating Toughness on Crime, Lorranawdah & Zero Tolerance for Minglin' among the Judean Under-Fives from Jolly Old King Herod, it's time to announce the results of the #DrawPritiPatel CHALLENGE!!!
And first off apologies for the delay in announcing this. As you know, negotiations between the judges went right up to the wire, & the amount of swarfega we'll need to get the blood off that ceiling is nobody's business. Worse, the hand-slashed fish head bearing the results...
...was sat in the back of a refrigerated hearse in a layby outside Ashford while Matt Hancock rang round his mates to find someone to award the contract chaffeuring contract, £300m in used fivers no questions arsked got me? And then, of course, ripped to his tits on babycham &...
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12 Nov 20
Right! It's results time! First off, the Great #DrawBorisJohnson Challenge on this special day for our KGB sleeper agent Pantomime Prime Minister, the day his sidekicks started eating his face! Remember, you can see all the entries here martinrowson.com/draw, so I'll limit...
...myself in the limited time availabel to me to just a few especially striking entries, otherwise I'd be chained to this damned computer all day and night, and some of us have homes to stay in and jobs to do too. That said, as ever, you lot never cease to amaze me, all of you...
...in the breadth of your talent and the depth of your rancour. I can think of few rancours who deserve to be the recipient of it more than "Boris". So, I need to start with the traditional hat doff to @SwissRich71 for his stamina & consistency. Salute!
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8 Nov 20
The defeat of Trump might - just might - mark something else, which is the beginning of the end of the Global Hegemony of Trollism. At heart, what marks “populism” apart from the fascism is engenders is that the engine for achieving right wing dominance (with all the standard...
... hallmarks of theft, exploitation larded with persecution) is nakedly to front the enterprise with genuinely obnoxious, deeply flawed people whose defining shtick is that they really really annoy anyone seeking to thwart all that theft & persecution. Trump is a trust fund...
...daddy’s boy who, like Johnson, would benefitted enormously from even the dear of being beaten up at a bus stop aged 15. As it was, they got away with being obnoxiously selfish so much it became their whole being, fuelled by laughter from over indulgent onlookers. Shift that...
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6 Nov 20
Poetry Korner (written 29.9.20)
The Shining City on The Hill

You see that Shining City on The Hill?
The shame is that the shine is just
The gleaming of the oily sheen
On the rats’ backs swarming from its slums,
The shimmer of the stacks of trash,
The glister of the stolen gold..
Reflected in the pools of blood,
The glistening of the sweat of slaves,
The sparkle of the film star’s teeth,
The Milky Way of motes of stirred up dust
Twinkling in the beams that play around
The shadows as they tic across the cave,
The flicker in the polished dreams...
Of Freedom, just a fresher theft
To free the thief to thieve, and thieve
Others’ freedoms too, self-evidenced
By genocide and force transhumance
In a bolthole built for grifters
By bigots who sought havens for their hatreds,
And newly peopled by great waves of deadbeats...
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