Chris Madden Cartoons

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Covid-19 herd immunity cartoon

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covid-19 natural remedies herd immunity cartoon
covid-19 natural remedies herd immunity cartoon

Covid-19 coronavirus herd immunity cartoon.

A person taking a natural herbal remedy as a cure for the Covid-19 coronavirus.
He is trying to achieve herb immunity.

Drawn: February 2021
Cartoon reference number: a917

Covid-19 buying puppies cartoon

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covid-19 buying puppies cartoon

Covid-19 coronavirus puppy buying cartoon.

The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has resulted in an epidemic of puppy buying.
Will the new owners still be pleased to have their new pets after the pandemic has ended?

Drawn: January 2021
Cartoon reference number: a893

Book of ART CARTOONS

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visual arts cartoon book humour humor jokes

My book of cartoons about visual art

Published December 2019

Cartoons ranging from Vermeer to contemporary art

A book of 114 full colour cartoons on the subject of the visual arts.
The targets of the cartoons range from artists themselves to the audiences in art galleries, and from art classes to art techniques.
There are jokes about specific artists such as Picasso, Dali, Magritte, Mondrian and Vermeer and there are jokes about the art market and about art criticism and art theory.
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Investment bankers’ remuneration cartoon

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banker's salaries and bonuses cartoon

Investment bankers’ bonuses and pay

Investment banking humour

Cartoon showing a banking job interview.

The interviewer is asking “What is it that attracts you to a career in investment banking?”
A joke about the bonus culture in banking and the ethics of banking

Cartoon drawn: 2013
Cartoon reference number: a312c

Summer gardening cartoon

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hot summer gardening cartoon

Cartoon about gardening on a hot summer day

Showing a gardener relaxing in the garden rather than doing any gardening tasks.

The gardener is sunbathing on a garden lounger and is thinking “There’s an old saying – if it’s hot enough for shorts it’s too hot for gardening”.
A joke about outdoor activities, garden furniture, summer, sunshine.
Cartoon reference number: a208a

See my book of gardening cartoons here.

Metaworld – the first use of the term? (1985)

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Metaverse, Metaworld, graphic novel

Metaworld – the first use of the term?

The talk about the invention of the Metaverse in 2021 reminded me that in about 1985 I developed a graphic novel with the title Metaworld.
I didn’t finish the project, although the plot did reach a second draft and several dozen of the pages were drawn to a reasonable level. They are all hidden away in the attic, and at the moment all I can find is this sketch of one of the pages, featuring one of the inhabitants of Metaworld.

 

This may be a very early use of the term ‘Meta’ to describe a world (Metaworld) or a universe (Metaverse). When I thought it up computer technology as we know it was in its infancy. I think I was using one of the first Macs at the time. The pages of Metaworld were drawn with pencil and paper.

Drawn: about 1985

Homeopathy side effects cartoon

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homeopathy side effects cartoon
homeopathy side effects cartoon

A cartoon about the side effects of homeopathic medicine.

The cartoon’s caption is:
“One of the great things about homeopathy is that because the remedies don’t actually do anything there’s no need to worry about nasty side effects.”.
Drawn: 2009
Cartoon reference number: a923

Covid-19 masks cartoon

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covid mask cartoon the Lone Stranger
covid mask cartoon the Lone Stranger

Coronavirus mask cartoon.

A person asking “Who was that masked man?”
He was the Lone Stranger.
Based on the phrase at the end of episodes of the 1950s tv show The Lone Ranger.

Drawn: February 2021
Cartoon reference number: a919

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Covid anti-vaxxer cartoon

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covid-19 anti-vaxxer cartoon

Covid-19 coronavirus anti-vaxxer cartoon.

An anti-vaxxer cartoon with the title Jabber wacky, after the Lewis Caroll nonsense poem Jabberwocky in Alice Through the Looking Glass.

Drawn: February 2021
Cartoon reference number: a918

Dictatorship or tyranny cartoon

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Dictator or tyrant cartoon

Human rights cartoon.

A cartoon about oppressive regimes, dictatorships or tyrannies.

The cartoon shows a person in a prison cage with a dictator or tyrant sitting on top of the cage
A cartoon about human rights, freedom, oppression, repressive regimes, dictatorship.
Drawn: 2017
Cartoon reference number: a909

Human rights cartoon – imprisoned artists

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Prisoner of conscience cartoon

Human rights cartoon.

This cartoon was drawn for an exhibition of cartoons about the treatment of dissident artists and cartoonists who live in countries that are governed by oppressive regimes.

The cartoon shows a cartoonist or artist drawing an image on the outside wall of a prison cell of a person escaping from the cell.
A cartoon about human rights, freedom of expression, free speech, repressive regimes, dictatorship.
Drawn: 2017
Cartoon reference number: a915

Human rights cartoon

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Freedom of speech cartoon

Human rights cartoon – freedom of speech.

This cartoon was drawn for an exhibition of cartoons about the treatment of dissident cartoonists who live in countries that are governed by oppressive regimes.

The cartoon shows a cartoonist drawing a cartoon on the outside wall of a prison cell. The cartoon bears the message “Free speech”
A cartoon about human rights, freedom of speech, free speech, repressive regimes, dictatorship.
Drawn: 2017
Cartoon reference number: a916

Dr Seuss racism allegation

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Dr Seuss racism allegation cartoon

A cartoon about the news that several Dr Seuss books are to be withdrawn due to claims of racism.

Dr Seuss Enterprises has decided that it will cease publication of six Dr Seuss books in order “to ensure Dr Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communities and families”.

A 2019 study, The Cat is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, Anti-Blackness, and White Supremacy in Dr. Seuss’s Children’s Books, stated that “white supremacy is seen through the centring of whiteness and white characters, who comprise 98 per cent of all characters”.
Drawn: March2 2021
Cartoon reference number: a906

Only watched the news once a day – cartoon

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Only watch the news once a day cartoon

Only watch the news once a day cartoon

A cartoon from a series featuring a life coach and lifestyle advisor called Mrs Walton.
In the cartoon she is advising someone that they shouldn’t follow the news all day long.

Limiting how much time you spend following the news can be seen as a good thing partly because obsessively keeping up with every change in events is ultimately a waste of time which stops you doing other things and partly because the news is so depressing.
Drawn: 2012
Cartoon reference number: a905

Physical activity v. mental activity

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Well read physically lazy person cartoon

Well-read mind cartoon

A cartoon from a series featuring a life coach and lifestyle advisor called Mrs Walton.
In the cartoon she is cautioning someone that “A well-read mind is a sign of a lazy body.”

The cartoon is partly about the cultural divide between physical and mental activity, and the various attitudes of superiority that are generated by both.
Drawn: 2012
Cartoon reference number: a904

Crossing bridges cartoon

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Crossing bridges cartoon

Crossing bridges cartoon

A cartoon from a series of ‘wellness’ cartoons featuring a life coach and spiritual advisor called Mrs Walton.
In this cartoon she is advising someone that “Just because there is a bridge it doesn’t mean that you have to cross it.”.

The cartoon is about the way that people’s lives and attitudes are channeled in particular directions by the structures imposed by their societies.
A cartoon about life coaches and lifestyle advice.
Drawn: 2012
Cartoon reference number: a903

Confirmation bias cartoon

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Confirmation bias cartoon

Confirmation bias cartoon

A cartoon from a series featuring a life coach and lifestyle advisor called Mrs Walton.
In the cartoon she. is advising someone to “Never believe anyone who you agree with.”

The cartoon is about the fact that people tend to seek out opinions that agree with their own, thus reinforcing rather than questioning their own opinions, a phenomenon called confirmation bias.
Drawn: 2012
Cartoon reference number: a902

Marriage advice cartoon

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Marriage advice cartoon

Marriage advice

A cartoon from a series of ‘wellness’ cartoons featuring a life coach and spiritual advisor called Mrs Walton.
The cartoon features marriage advice to young men. The type of young men that I’ve depicted is deliberate. Interprete it as you wish.
The life coach is saying “Never marry a woman whoitmore attractive than Scarlett Johansson or less attractive than Lily James”.

A cartoon about life coaches, lifestyle advice, marriage advice, therapy, relationship advice.
Drawn: 2012
Cartoon reference number: a901

Shame on you – woke shaming cartoon

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Shame on you - woke shaming cartoon

Woke shaming cartoon

A cartoon about the tendency among some of the woke to attempt to humiliate and belittle those who think differently to them by ‘shaming’ them. The process of shaming is a convenient way to dismiss other points of view without engaging with it, and of dismissing the person whose view it is.

A cartoon about wokeness, tolerance, intolerence, shaming, shame culture. Published in the Critic magazine, June 2021.
Drawn: October 2020
Cartoon reference number: a900

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Missing Donald Trump outrage cartoon

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Missing Donald Trump outrage cartoon

Politics isn’t the same without Donald Trump

Although it’s generally agreed that the defeat of Donald Trump in the US elections was a good thing, his outrageous behaviour as president was a perversely energising occurrence during the doldrums of the Covid-19 restrictions.

Drawn: January 2021
Cartoon reference number: a897

“No one is safe until everyone is safe” cartoon

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covid-19 vaccine cartoon desert island

Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine cartoon.
“No one’s safe until everyone’s safe.”

The cartoon shows a man on a desert island having a Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine dropped to him by plane.
He is having the vaccine delivered because, as the UK government says “No one is safe until everyone is safe”

Drawn: January 2021
Cartoon reference number: a895

Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown enforcement cartoon

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covid-19 lockdown enforcement cartoon

Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown enforcement cartoon.

The police telling someone who lives in a very densely populated urban area to return to the area in which they live.
Lockdowns are much more onerous for city dwellers compared to people who live in the countryside

 
Drawn: January 2021
Cartoon reference number: a896

Cat print design

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cat print art

A cat with a bowl of milk.

The design shows a humorous image of a cat next to a bowl of milk, looking up at the observer.

A brightly coloured design drawn in a simple naive style, similar to a silk screen print. Designed as a wall print or a greetings card.
Created: 2017
Reference number: a890

Cat cartoon

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birthday card cat cartoon

Cat cartoon.

A cartoon showing cats creating. a birthday message that they are going to send.

A cartoon about cats, Instagram, messaging, birthdays, cards.
Cartoon reference number: a888

Marine waste cartoon

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Hermit crab with tin can as a shell - cartoon

A cartoon about marine pollution showing a hermit crab using an old tin can instead of a shell

The cartoon could be interpreted as showing wildlife desperately trying to adapt to a changed ecosystem.
A cartoon about waste recycling, household waste, wildlife in danger.

See an alternative version of this cartoon here.
Cartoon reference number: env094c

Commercial branding and political activism

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CND logo branding cartoon

Branding cartoon

This cartoon was drawn at a time when political and social causes were in decline and individualism and consumerism were on the ascendant. It shows a teenage girl (who is very concerned about fashion and branding) asking her mother (who in her youth was a social activist) which brand the CND logo represents, as the girl doesn’t recognise it as the symbol of a campaign group.

Now (2021) there is a resurgence in social and political activism, however some of the campaigns are deliberately adopted by commercial organisations to boost their profile in the social concern stakes. A typical example is the commercialisation of Gay Pride.
Drawn: 2003
Cartoon reference number: env0027a

Critical Race Theory cartoon – crt applied to a snowman

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Critical Race Theory cartoon

Critical Race Theory cartoon.

Critical Race Theory (CRT) applied to a snowman.

A person is asking why the snowman is white.  One of the points of the cartoon is that once a social theory has been formulated (any theory, not just crt) it is often used to interpret matters to which it does not apply.
Drawn: December 2020
Cartoon reference number: a886

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