Pollution cartoon
Pollution cartoon.
The cartoon shows the Global North and the Global South on a pair of scales, with the Global North producing most of the pollution. This pollution is drifting across and if affecting the Global South while the Global North remains relatively unaffected by its own pollution.
A cartoon that comments on over-consumption at Christmas.
Drawn: November 2023
Cartoon reference number: a959
Banksy cartoon
Banksy cartoon.
A cartoon featuring a queue for a Banksy exhibition, one of whom is a girl who features in several of Banksy’s stencil artworks (In the cartoon the girl is also a stencil on the wall).
The cartoon was created at the time of the Banksy exhibition in the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow, 2023.
Drawn: July 2023
First published: The Critic magazine. July 2023
Cartoon reference number: a958b
Banksy cartoon
Banksy cartoon.
A cartoon showing a queue for a Banksy exhibition. One of the people in the queue is a girl who features in several of Banksy’s stencil works (In the cartoon she is actually a stencil herself, on the wall in the cartoon).
The cartoon was drawn at the time of the Banksy exhibition in Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), summer 2023.
Drawn: July 2023
First published (colour version): The Critic magazine. July 2023
Cartoon reference number: a958
Global warming flood illustration
Global warming flood illustration.
The illustration shows a family sitting in a boat as flood water ruses around them due to heavy rain caused by climate change as a result of global warming
A cartoon about floods caused by global warming.
Drawn: July 2022
Cartoon reference number: a957
Environmental transport illustration – three seater bicycle
Environmental transport illustration.
The illustration shows a three-seater bicycle or tandem as an image of sustainable, zero-carbon transport.
A cartoon about environmentally sustainable holidays.
Drawn: July 2022
Cartoon reference number: a956
Environmental holiday illustration
Environmental holiday illustration.
The illustration shows a girl making sand castles on a beach and adding toy windmills to them to convert them into wind turbines.
A cartoon about environmentally sustainable holidays.
Drawn: July 2022
Cartoon reference number: a955
Environmental Christmas illustration
Environmental Christmas illustration.
The illustration shows a Christmas tree decoration that looks like the earth.
A cartoon that comments on over-consumption at Christmas.
Drawn: July 2022
Cartoon reference number: a954
Bee friendly illustration
An illustration showing bees and bee-friendly flowers.
The illustration is about the fact that bees are in decline and need encouraging and protecting.
One of the best ways for individuals to encourage bees is to plant bee-friendly plants in their gardens.
Drawn: July 2022
Cartoon reference number: a953
Ethical investment illustration
An illustration or cartoon about ethical investment.
The illustration shows a person putting a coin with a map of the world on it into a piggy bank.
The piggy bank symbolises investment and the coin symbolises the world.
Drawn: July 2022
Cartoon reference number: a952
A cartoon about throw away fast fashion
An environmental illustration or cartoon about fast fashion.
The illustration shows a person wearing “slow fashion” clothes instead of “fast fashion” clothes.
Throw away fashion or fast fashion is a form of fashion where clothes are made very cheaply so that they are cheap to buy and easy to throw away after very little use – maybe even just one night out.
Drawn: July 2022
Cartoon reference number: a951
Dog and ball
An environmental illustration or cartoon showing a dog chasing a ball.
The ball is the earth as a globe.
The intension of the illustration is to draw a link between pet ownership and the environment. It was originally drawn for a booklet about how to look after your pet in an environmentally responsible way.
Drawn: July 2022
Cartoon reference number: a950
Banksy exhibition
Banksy exhibition disrupted by Just Stop Oil protester – cartoon.
The cartoon shows a Just Stop Oil protester disrupting the Banksy exhibition in the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Glasgow.
The Banksy exhibition is titled Cut and Run. 18 June – 28 Aug 2023.
Drawn: July 2023
Cartoon reference number: a949
The commercialization of Gay Pride
Monetizing gay pride through sponsorship.
Over the years Gay Pride has moved from being a rights based protest movement to a commercial opportunity.
Gay Pride Month is now an extended corporate sponsorship event, complete with rainbow flag adorned merchandising.
Drawn: June 2019
Cartoon reference number: a948
AI cartoon (the dangers of)
AI cartoon (Artificial intelligence).
A cartoon about AI, or artificial intelligence. The cartoon shows concern for the fact that it may be impossible to programme safeguards into AI systems, as the AI system will become intelligent enough to find a loophole to overcome the programmed safeguards.
Concern about AI has existed ever since the conncept of AI was thought of – now that AI is becoming a practical possibility the concern is becoming more widely held.
Drawn: 3rd April 2023
Cartoon reference number: a947
Artificial intelligence cartoon
Artificial intelligence cartoon.
A cartoon about AI, or artificial intelligence. The cartoon is based on the computer cliché that to fix a computer you need to turn it off and turn it on again.