Showing posts with label Olympic Torch Relay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympic Torch Relay. Show all posts

31.12.12

Topical cartoons: A look back at 2012

I don't know about you, but I'm a little "review of the year" fatigued, so I'll spare you a look back at my cartooning highlights of 2012 and offer instead some topical gags from the past 12 months.

We had the usual winter weather ...
Followed, of course, by a hosepipe ban ...


Britain celebrated the Queen's Diamond Jubilee ...


... amid more extreme weather events in the summer ...
 

But the Olympics was the story of the year ...


There was a new addition to the London skyline ...

 

A government minister prompted a fuel panic ...

There were teething problems with technology ...


A new Archbishop of Canterbury was chosen, via a long and drawn-out process ...

We said farewell to The Dandy comic in printed form after 75 years ...

 

And, as ever, there was some very strange stuff that came out of nowhere ...
Have a happy 2013, everyone!

21.7.12

Olympics cartoon: Flame on


"This is the 'Mother Flame' – three for a pound down the market."

This is a rejected Olympic Torch cartoon. Too cynical? Maybe, but cartoons don't really work when they celebrate something. Or they are not funny, at least. Cynicism is kind of the default position for cartoonists.

The Torch came down our way this week, just a couple of streets away, so I popped out to see it and posted a rubbish photo of it on Twitter.

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