Showing posts with label Law Society Gazette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Law Society Gazette. Show all posts
2.8.17
Humorous illustration: No punchline required
Humorous illustration is slightly different to joke, or gag, cartoons: you use a funny or odd scenario, usually to illustrate an article in a magazine, newspaper or website, without necessarily having a punchline, as you would in a joke cartoon.
Sometimes these are wordless or they may have words within them as part of the drawing, but they generally don't have a caption or speech bubble.
Here are some examples from the Law Society Gazette.
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11.11.15
Returning to work: A parody cartoon
This cartoon for the Law Society Gazette, which accompanied an article on how to return to the legal profession, typically after taking time out to raise a family, references a famous US wartime poster.
With all due apologies, of course, to the artist J. Howard Miller.
Click here to buy Royston's cartoon book
With all due apologies, of course, to the artist J. Howard Miller.
Click here to buy Royston's cartoon book
20.7.15
Retirement cartoon
Cartoon from the Law Society's Gazette on the subject or retirement, or rather not quite retiring. It accompanies an article called How to plan for retirement
24.3.15
Business magazine cartoon: All fired up
Here's a cartoon for this week's Law Gazette which accompanies an article called "How to sack a client". I was quite pleased with the caricature of Lord Sugar ...
... it feels like redemption for this one I did in a live-drawing event in Ramsgate last summer, where the likeness didn't go quite as planned. But at least I had a good get-out clause for the speech bubbles ...
13.1.15
Magna cartoon
This cartoon was commissioned by the Law Society Gazette to illustrate an article spoofing the Conservatives' proposed bill of rights. Click the image to enlarge.
The protagonists, in a scene designed to evoke the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta this year, are, clockwise from top left: Nigel Farage, David Cameron, Chris Grayling, Ed Miliband and Theresa May.
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