And to clear the decks here are the results of the #DrawGrantShapps Challenge. Going to skip through these to starve the littl eirk of the oxygen of publicity. Even if if he is Mick Jones' cousin. Anyway, here's @SwissRich71 with typical brevity & pith!
...A splendid bit of geological caricature from the twisted recesses of @DavidWaywell's id, Grant's 4th identity as Malcolm McLaren & Michael Sheen's lost love child courtesy of @daviescartoons + @JamesDFMellor & @JaseToons
..and we finish off with a nice littl edrawing from the wonderful @Ybretsae & a piece of "Found Satire" from @SwissRich71, breaking free the earthy bonds of Foul Mouthed Typography! A light meal of scribbled bile, but refreshing nonetheless I hope you agree! The winner, however..
...for this especially, but also for the consistent brilliance of his caricature collages which have been lighting up these #Draw... Challenges these past fraught months, is @StephenCliffe3's brilliant skewering of Shapps with this. I know it is a phote, but it could be a photo.
Ain't that just genius? I must now repair to my drawing board and earn some money. Have a nice day!
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Anyway, before I go to bed just this. Over the past 35 years I've worked for every national daily paper except the Sun & the Daily Star at some point, but now, aged 62, I'm delighted to be working fod the Antimatter of the Main Stream Meejah over at @BylineTimes - and I started..
...last month with the first episode of "Infurno", the sordid yet truth life tale of what exactly is going on behind the matt black doors of 10 Downing Street. That first episode now follows in a series of cliffhanging tweets...
Well, I met him 4 times, the last time being in my role as a vice-president of @OfficialZSL at the opening of the new Whipsnade elephant barn. He looked at me and mny fellow trustees and said "You lot look bloody freezing!" and moved on. The best occasion, though, was in his...
...role at patron of the The Cartoon Arts Trust, which runs @Cartoonmuseumuk. Before we found a permanent home I went to a fundraising dinner in St James Palace. There were only 3 living cartoonists there, me, Peter Brookes & Nick Garland. Garland's a bit too grand to meet...
...Royalty, so me & Brookes were summoned into the ducal presence. I said hello & he asked me if any of my work was syndicated, and I said I had no idea. He then turned to Brookes, who bowed low and said "Peter Brookes, sir, The Times", as which point Phil the Greek exploded...
OK lovelies, time for the results of the grand #DrawACovidDenier Challenge. Honestly, I was going to engage in a lengthy rant about these attention seeking psychotic cranks, but fuck em - why should they steal my life? Suffice it to say they have all the charm of the kind of...
...squalid psychopath who gatecrashes funerals to spit in the mourners' face to show them how brilliant they are at spitting, while the only qualifications of the higher profile hack cranks is a capacity to impress the editors of rags that think Journalism is just a side project
...of charging the public to laugh at the zanies in Bedlam. As I say, fuck 'em. And by god you have. Let's get straight on with it. Lovely general observations from @artuscreative, @BackwardNut & @cartoonsbypete
Right - you got four more days to get in your considered visual judgement on Rupert Murdoch in the Great (and Grassroots!) #DrawRupertMurdoch Challenge, while the Wrinkled Dynast seethes in his Thames Valley hideaway against the iniquities of Cancel Culture. Bang right Cobber!
And in that Spirit of Free Expression here are some Rupes of mine own from down the years. From @M_Star_Online
Ok folks, as Tempus never endingly fugits, time for the results of the #DrawTheInauguration Challenge. This was run in partnership with @Cartoonmuseumuk, and you can see all the entries here ...
...and it was different from all previous #Draw Challenges inasmuch as @Cartoonmuseumuk used the Challenge as part of its educational outreach programme, encouraging homeschooled kids to have a go, working on this downloadable template. Cute, huh?
So, this once, there are TWO categories of winners - one from the usual rabble of asocial scribblers - ie YOU - and one from the kids. The "adult" will get a copy of @AndrewGimson's #GimsonsPresidents, signed by me, & the kid'll get that PLUS a shedload of Cartoon Museum goodies
Right, and because I've got a backlog, we're going to deal speedily with #DrawBorisJohnsonsLockdownBedroom Challenge. You can see all the entries here , but on this special special day of "Boris's" Sadness, I'm not going to drag this out. Special mentions..