Chris Madden Cartoons

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A Christmas gardening gift…

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Christmas gift gardening cartoon book

A Funny Year in the Garden
Gardening cartoon book

If you’re looking for the perfect Christmas gift for a gardener, this may be it!

The book contains about a hundred of my black and white gardening cartoons, most of which have been published in newspapers and magazines from Private Eye to the Irish Sunday Independent (where I had a weekly slot in the gardening pages for fifteen years or more).
The book is available through Amazon.
Such as at:
Amazon UK
Amazon USA

Covid Christmas cartoon

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covid-19 Christmas lockdown cartoon

Covid-19 coronavirus Christmas cartoon.

People seeing the announcement that “the country will be open for Christmas”, and wishing that it wasn’t.
There is a possibility that over the Christmas period people will mix with each other excessively and will cause a big peak of infections in January.

Also, quite a lot of people would probably prefer a quiet Christmas anyway.
Drawn: November 2020
Cartoon reference number: a880

Christmas Covid-19 – the grim reaper spreading the virus

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Christmas cartoon covid-19 virus grim reaper

Christmas covid-19 – the grim reaper spreading the virus.

In the cartoon the grim reaper is giving a little girl some party balloons that are shaped like the Cover-19 coronavirus.

A cartoon about the potential of spreading the coronavirus when families meet up over the Christmas period.
Drawn: November 2020
Cartoon reference number: a872

Book of ART CARTOONS

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modern and contemporary art humour and jokes

A book of humour about the visual arts.

Over a hundred cartoons about art

The targets of the cartoons range from artists themselves to the audiences in art galleries, and from art classes to art techniques.
There is humour aimed at contemporary art and at modern art along with humour directed at traditional art.
There are jokes about specific artists such as Picasso, Dali, Magritte, Mondrian and Vermeer and there are jokes about the art market, about art criticism and about art theory.
Order it from your local bookshop or buy it through Amazon:

Christmas cartoon. Santa with inflatable reindeer balloon

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balloon reindeer christmas cartoon

Santa and reindeer christmas card cartoon

Santa with a balloon shaped like a reindeer

This cartoon has references to the inflatable santas and inflatable reindeer that are sold as Christmas decorations, although the original version of this cartoon was actually drawn quite a few years before inflatable Santas came onto the market.

The illustration can be used as a Christmas card or any other form of Christmas use.

Cartoon reference number: a398

Reindeer Christmas card cartoon or illustration

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Santa and inflatable reindeer

Reindeer christmas card cartoon

A cartoon of a reindeer for use on a Christmas card

This cartoon reindeer can be used as a Christmas card or any other form of Christmas use.
If it is used as a high-volume commercial Christmas card a royalty based payment agreement is necessary.
Cartoon reference number: a397

Christmas cartoon – reindeer eating garden vegetables

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Christmas cartoons - reindeer eating garden vegetables

A Christmas gardening cartoon from my selection of Christmas cartoons

A man looking out of his window on Christmas morning to see a reindeer eating his garden vegetables

Cartoon of a gardener seeing Santa’s reindeer eating his brussels sprouts

A cartoon about Santa Claus’s reindeer, Father Christmas delivering Christmas presents.
Part of the joke is that although Santa’s reindeer is on an extraordinary mission (delivering Christmas presents around the world) it is engaged in a mundane activity. It is the mundane activity that the man notices, rather than the extraordinary occurrence of Santa’s reindeer in his garden. He is obviously more concerned about his garden vegetables than he is interested in the magic of Christmas.

Cartoon reference number: a270

See my book of gardening cartoons here.

Christmas cartoon – unwanted gifts find a use

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Christmas gloves gift cartoon

Christmas gardening cartoon.
Winter gardening cartoon

A man finding an alternative use for unwanted Christmas gifts

Cartoon of a gardener using all of the gloves that he received as Christmas presents as frost protectors for the plants in his garden.
The plants are just the right size and shape to fit the gloves, which is part of the joke

A cartoon about gloves as Christmas presents, unwanted Christmas gifts, winter gardening, frost protection, fleece, insulation.

Cartoon reference number: a269

See my book of gardening cartoons here.

Christmas gardening cartoon

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Christmas gardening book cartoon

Christmas gardening book cartoon

A man opening his Christmas present from his wife
The Christmas present is a book called ‘The Home Decorator’s Year’

He is thinking ‘I’m sure I asked for “The Gardener’s Year”‘
The man’s wife thinks that he should spend more time decorating the house than outside in the garden.
To her gardening is a hobby, while decorating the house is a chore that she equates with housework (which her husband doesn’t do)

A cartoon about gender roles, household chores, Christmas presents, Christmas gifts, books.

Cartoon reference number: a268

See my book of gardening cartoons here.
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Christmas gardening joke – a Christmas present for a gardener

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gardening christmas present joke

Christmas gardening cartoon.

A cartoon showing a keen gardener receiving a Christmas present – a “grow-your-own” oak tree. In other words, an acorn.

A joke about men’s hobbies and pass-times, planting trees, re-establishing woodland, conservation, green Christmas presents.
Cartoon reference number: a206

See my book of gardening cartoons here.

Using Christmas decorations as bird scarers

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using christmas decorations as bird scarers joke

Christmas cartoon. Using Christmas decorations as bird scarers

A joke showing a gardener hanging up spare Christmas decorations to scare birds away from the seedlings in his garden

A cartoon about bird deterrents, protecting seedlings, birds as garden pests.

Drawn: Dec 2010

Cartoon reference number: a199

See my book of gardening cartoons here.

Christmas gardening cartoon – leave the Christmas decorations in the tree all winter

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cartoon - leave Christmas fairy lights in tree all winter

Christmas gardening cartoon – leave the outdoor Christmas decorations in the tree all winter

Cartoon about garden and outdoor decorations.

Brighten up the garden in the dark winter months and bring winter colour to the garden by putting Christmas decorations in the trees.

Drawn: Dec 2011

Cartoon reference number: a168
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Snowman cartoons – a melting snowman

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Christmas cartoon. Children building a snowman on the sofa in a house. The snowman is melting in the heat, but the children keep building it

Christmas cartoons
Melting snowman cartoon

The snowman is on a chair or sofa (settee), and is melting onto the furniture and floor – but the children keep adding new snow to the snowman.

A cartoon about the way that children aren’t aware of consequences and lack a sense of responsibility.
This version drawn: 2015
Cartoon reference number: xms013
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Flying with a snowman – cartoon

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Snowman cartoon. A flying snowman clasping a child's glove in one hand. The child has slipped out of the glove

Christmas illustration
Flying with the snowman

A slightly dark and sinister Christmas joke about the shattering of dreams and things going horribly wrong.
The caption reads: For little Jack it was the perfect Christmas, flying high above the rooftops with his friend the snowman – until suddenly it all went horribly wrong

The flying snowman is holding a child’s glove in one hand. The implication is that the snowman took the child for an enchanted flight – but that the child’s hand slipped out of the glove in mid air. I’ll leave the rest to you.
Inspired to some extent on The Snowman by Raymond Briggs.
Cartoon reference number: xms011

Christmas cartoons. ‘Get thee behind me, Santa!’

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Christmas cartoon. Santa tempting a child with a gift. The child's mother saying 'Get thee behind me, Santa!'

Christmas cartoon
Santa’s grotto cartoon

Santa in a shopping mall tempting a child with a gift. The child’s mother saying ‘Get thee behind me, Santa!’
The cartoon uses the Biblical phrase “Get thee behind me Satan” (used by Christ when tempted by the devil) and transforms it into the words used by a mother when her child is tempted by Santa.
The cartoon is a comment about commercialisation and consumerism and has no religious significance (as I’m an atheist)

A Christmas cartoon about temptation, pester power, shopping malls, shopping.
A version of this cartoon was published in Private Eye, Christmas 2012

Cartoon reference number: xms010

Christmas cartoon. Which to choose: Santa’s grotto or Satan’s grotto?

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Christmas cartoon. A child standing between Santa's grotto and Satan's grotto, and trying to decide which one to go to

Christmas cartoon. Which to choose: Santa’s grotto or Satan’s grotto?

Cartoon showing a child standing between two grottos offering presents. One is Santa’s grotto and one is Satan’s. Both are tempting the child with the offer of presents and material gifts. Maybe Satan’s gifts are less wholesome.
This cartoon isn’t meant to be particularly profound or meaningful in any religious way by the way (as I’m an atheist). It’s just a simple observation about temptation and the fact that Santa and Satan are anagrams of each other.

A cartoon or illustration that illustrates temptation, difficult choices, bribes, xmas, bribery.

Cartoon drawn: 2011
Cartoon reference number: xms009
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