Topical cartoon: Horsing around

The horsemeat scandal doesn't seem to be going away any time soon. I drew this last week to accompany a newspaper story about testing for horsemeat in Kent schools. 

This is one of those subjects that seems to have caught people's imaginations as far as jokes are concerned, and there has been a plethora of horsemeat gags on Twitter. I wrote a piece on the rise of Twitter jokes, and how it means cartoonists are having to up their game, for the Procartoonists blog. You can read it here.

Film cartoon: Oompa Loompa do-ba-dee-do

This is one for fans of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the original (and best) version of Roald Dahl's much-loved story.

It was fun to draw, and the famous Oompa-Loompa song ran through my head as I did so. The cartoon appears in the current issue of Saga magazine.

I considered writing "Royston tan cartoon" as the headline for this post, because whenever I Google myself (we've all done it) I get some results for the Singaporean film-maker Royston Tan, and I thought it would be funny if people searching for him find me instead. It may happen anyway now ... so hello Royston Tan fans!

In other news, a local paper, the Isle of Thanet Gazette, wrote a profile about me this week. Here's the picture they took. As you can see, I can draw three cartoons at the same time while balancing a bookshelf on my head. Read the interview here.

In case you're wondering what that small white thing is in the top right, it's a key from an old computer keyboard. Sometimes I press it.

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UFO cartoons: Watch the skies

"Sorry mate, you'll have to ask someone else, I'm not from this area ..."

This cartoon was drawn for a local paper to illustrate a story about declassified documents on UFO sightings.

The Kent papers I draw for often seem to have stories about alleged alien visitors! That's fine by me, as it's always a good subject for humour. Here's another one from a few years ago.

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