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
Christmas cartoons
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A Christmas gardening gift…
A Funny Year in the Garden
Gardening cartoon bookIf 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.
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Covid Christmas 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
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Covid-19 virus Christmas robin cartoon
Coronavirus Christmas robin cartoon.
The snowflakes are shaped like the Covid-19 virus
Drawn: November 2020
Cartoon reference number: a875
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Coronavirus Christmas cartoon
Covid-19 Christmas tree decorations cartoon.
Cartoon showing a Christmas tree decorated with baubles shaped like the Cover-19 coronavirus.
A cartoon possibly about the potential of spreading the coronavirus when families get together over the Christmas period.
Drawn: November 2020
Cartoon reference number: a874
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Covid-19 virus Christmas decoration cartoon
covid-19 Christmas tree decoration cartoon.
Cartoon showing a Christmas tree decoration shaped like the Cover-19 coronavirus.
A cartoon possibly about the potential of spreading the coronavirus when families meet up over the Christmas period.
Drawn: November 2020
Cartoon reference number: a873
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Christmas Covid-19 – the grim reaper spreading the virus
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
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Christmas cartoon – covid-19 virus mistletoe
Christmas cartoon – covid-19 virus mistletoe.
A cartoon showing people kissing under the mistletoe and spreading the Covid-19 coronavirus as a result.
Drawn: November 2020
Cartoon reference number: a871
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Christmas greetings Covid-19 face mask message cartoon
Christmas greetings coronavirus mask cartoon .
A cartoon showing people wearing coronavirus face masks with Christmas greetings on them.
Drawn: November 2020
Cartoon reference number: a870
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Book of ART CARTOONS
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.See my cartoons about art here.
Order it from your local bookshop or buy it through Amazon:
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Snowman with a human skull – a macabre cartoon
Macabre snowman cartoon
A snowman melting – revealing that inside the snowman’s head there is a human skull.
A macabre Christmas cartoon
Cartoon reference number: xms006
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Christmas cartoons
Welcome to my selection of cartoons about Christmas
To see my Christmas cartoons please click the image on the right, or click Christmas cartoons here.
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Christmas cartoon. Santa with inflatable reindeer balloon
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
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Reindeer Christmas card cartoon or illustration
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
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Christmas cartoon – 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.
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Christmas cartoon – unwanted gifts find a use
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.
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Christmas gardening 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
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.
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A novel use for unwanted Christmas presents
Garden cartoon. A novel use for unwanted Christmas presents
A cartoon showing a gardener using an unwanted Christmas present (a tie) to secure a sapling to a stake.
Cartoon reference number: a200
See my book of gardening cartoons here.
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Using Christmas decorations as bird scarers
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.
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Christmas gardening cartoon – leave the Christmas decorations in the 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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Christmas cartoon – a Christmas present for a gardener
Christmas gardening cartoon
Cartoon – a gardening Christmas present
Cartoon showing a man giving his wife a Christmas present. The gift is something that he wants himself, and that he intends to use.
Cartoon reference number: a165
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Cat Christmas cartoons. A cat pulling down Christmas decorations
Cat Christmas cartoon
A pet cat pulling down Christmas decorations
A cartoon from my selection of Christmas cartoons
Cartoon reference number: xms015
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Winter gardening cartoon. A child builds a snowman with gloves as hands
Winter gardening cartoon. A child builds a snowman and gives it gardening gloves as hands. Meanwhile, the child’s father is looking for his gardening gloves because it’s so cold.
Christmas cartoon.
Snowman cartoon.
Cartoon drawn: 1999
Cartoon reference number: xms014
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Snowman cartoons – a melting snowman
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: 2015Cartoon reference number: xms013
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Christmas illustration. Cats building a snowman shaped like a cat
Christmas illustration
Cats building a snowman shaped like a catChristmas cartoon. A group of cats building a cat shaped snowman
This illustration would be suitable for a Christmas card for cat lovers
Original version drawn: 2002
Cartoon reference number: xms012
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Flying with a snowman – cartoon
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
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Christmas cartoons. ‘Get thee behind me, Santa!’
Christmas cartoon
Santa’s grotto cartoonSanta 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 2012Cartoon reference number: xms010
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Christmas cartoon. Which to choose: Santa’s grotto or Satan’s grotto?
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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Christmas cartoon – Santa’s reindeer eating garden plants
Christmas cartoon
Gardening cartoonA man looking out of his bedroom window on Christmas morning, to see Santa’s reindeer eating his Brussels sprouts in his vegetable garden
An illustration suitable for a Christmas card for gardening enthusiasts
Cartoon drawn: 2009
Cartoon reference number: xms008