Salvador Dali surreal lobster telephone cartoon

Surrealism cartoon – Salvador Dali lobster telephone and shrimp cell phone
Cartoon showing Salvador Dali’s surrealist telephone, along with a mobile phone that he may have imagined if they had existed then.
Original cartoon drawn: 2010
This version drawn: 2019
Cartoon reference number: art013
This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Value of artworks cartoon – phone app for market value

Art price cartoon – a phone app that displays an artworks market value.
The caption reads “I’ve got this fantastic new app – I point my phone at a painting and it tells me its current market value.”
Cartoon drawn: 2019
Cartoon reference number: art037
This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
The etiquette of using a mobile phone in an art gallery

A cartoon about the etiquette of using a cell phone in an art gallery.
The cartoon shows a visitor to an art gallery talking on a mobile phone in the gallery.
The cartoon is about the tensions that can occur in public spaces concerning the inconsiderate use of mobile phones, especially if the user speaks in a load voice and seems oblivious to their surroundings.
Art galleries are usually quiet spaces (although there are some schools of thought that think that they should be more lively (and therefore more accessible to people who feel intimidated by the reverence normally afforded to art).
The other visitors to the gallery are looking very disapproving.
Cartoon drawn: 2019
Cartoon reference number: art015
This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Cartoon – contemporary art aimed at the selfie taking Instagram generation

Art aimed at the Instagram generation.
The cartoon shows artworks in an art gallery in which the works are in the form of speech bubbles with quotes in them.
The quotes are clichés poking fun at modern art and contemporary art: But is it art? and A child of six could do it!
Gallery visitors pose beneath the quotes and have selfies or photos taken of themselves.
Cartoon drawn: 2019
Cartoon reference number: art056
This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Social media in contemporary art cartoon

Digital language enters contemporary art.
The cartoon shows a contemporary art painting that resembles a social media emoji.
The fact that the visitors to the art gallery think that the painting is capturing emotion and is expressing emotion is partly meant to show the emotional banality and superficiality of a lot of social media.
Cartoon drawn: 2019
Cartoon reference number: art048
This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Cell phone dependency (or mobile phone dependency) cartoon
Dependency on mobile phones – cartoon.
People are beginning to rely to an excessive extent on their mobile phone (cell phone) and on digital electronic technology.
This cartoon illustrates this by depicting tourists who are using the sat-nav function of their mobile phones to navigate to a hotel. The gps has stopped working and they don’t know how to find the hotel, even though it’s plainly in full view.
Cartoon reference number: a758
The “post truth” society
Post truth cartoon or conspiracy theory cartoon.
Truth and facts being ignored in favour of emotional or prejudiced viewpoints.
The concept of ignoring the facts when reaching a decision about something, and letting the heart rather than the head rule, seems to be a phenomenon that’s on the rise. It has recently been labelled ‘post truth’.
In the cartoon I’ve linked it to the phenomenon of conspiracy theories, which are frequently used as a way of justifying irrational or unproven ideas.
The rise of post truth tendencies is said to be linked to people’s increasing use of social media via phones and electronic media and the tendency for internet algorithms to send people only information that they already agree with – however the tendency has always been there in the way that people purchase newspapers that agree with their political and other views.
It may also be linked to the current mistrust of experts.
Cartoon reference number: a756
How social media confirms your prejudiced – creating a ‘phoney’ world view
How social media in phones filter information – giving the user a ‘phoney’ (or phony) world view
How social media etc via phones and other digital devices reinforce prejudices by filtering information so that the user only sees information that conforms to the user’s existing biases.
The ‘filter bubble’ of social media and other digital technology is similar to the ‘culture bubble’ of real-world travel and peer group opinions and attitudes.

The phone filter bubble effect – creating a ‘phoney’ world view
How algorithms in phones filter information, thus giving the user a ‘phoney’ (or phony) world view
How the use of phones and other digital devices reinforce prejudices by filtering information so that the user tends to see only information that conforms to the user’s biases.
The ‘filter bubble’ of social media and other digital technology is similar to the ‘culture bubble’ in which travellers and tourists surround themselves with their own culture when abroad.

People immersed in their smart phones unaware of events in the real world
A problem of immersive technology – smart phone users oblivious to events round them
This cartoon is about the way that the use of smart phones encourages people to withdraw from the real world and to become totally immersed in their phones.
In the cartoon the two young people in the foreground are completely unaware that the city behind them is being destroyed by an alien invasion by flying saucers or ufos (and that this is the reason that their phones have lost their signal). The only thing that they notice is that the signal to their phones has gone.
The cartoon is an illustration of the potential dangers of immersive technology.
It was first published in Prospect magazine, April 2016.

To record or to intervene? The public filming of incidents
A cartoon about the tendency for people to record incidents raher than to intervene in them.
A cartoon showing people who are dismayed by the fact that there’s a man drowning in front of them, but that they haven’t got their phones with them with which to record the event.
A cartoon about a dark side to “citizen journalism”.

The disposal of obsolete computer equipment
Cartoon about disposing of obsolete computers by sending them to developing countries.
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Computers and electronic equipment shipped to India for disposal.
Original version created: 2016

From stone age to phone age
Cartoon about the evolution of technology
A stone age man using stones and a modern man using a phone
Part of the idea behind the cartoon is that people haven’t changed much, despite the advanced of technology
Digital characters coming to life – illustration
Computer characters walking out of a computer screen
An illustration about digitally generated characters coming to life
An illustration about digital alternative reality
Rene Magritte cartoon – this is not an apple
Rene Magritte cartoon
A pastiche of a surrealist painting by Rene Magritte – This is not an Apple or This is not a Pipe
(In French: Ceci n’est pas une pomme or Ceci n’est pas une pipe)
A reference to Apple iPhones and Samsung Galaxy phones
The image relates to surrealism, surrealist painting, visual puns
Cartoon of a person watching reality tv – infinite regression image
Reality tv cartoon – showing a person watching reality tv watching a person watching reality tv – an infinite regression image
A cartoon about television reflecting life: about the way that people’s lives are seemlessly integrated with technology – to the point where people only exist in relation to technology
An illustration of people doing nothing but watching reality television, for whom nothing exists beyond the tv screen, the computer screen or the phone screen.
Snooper drones cartoon
Personal spy drone cartoon
The use of drones for private detective work
A cartoon about one of the implications of the spread of drone technology in the future if drones become available to the public as personal drones or as civilian surveillance drones in general
The drone in the image is being used by a husband to spy on his wife
Advances in drone technology have implications for civil liberties, with the possibility of a Big Brother society
Click below for another cartoon about the possible use of personal drones Snooper drones
Personal snooper drone cartoon – drones used for stalking

Personal spy drone cartoon
An idea about the implications of drone technology
The use of drones for stalking
A cartoon about one of the numerous possible misuses of drone technology in the future if drones become available to the public as personal drones
The drone in the image is being used by a stalker to stalk a woman.
Click below for another cartoon about the possible use of personal drones Snooper drones
Illustration – people using mobile devices oblivious to their surroundings
An illustration about the tunnel vision of cell phone users
People using mobile devices being oblivious to what’s around them
A cartoon showing people using mobile phones or other portable electronic devices, totally ignoring the world around them
The cartoon shows a spring blossom tree in full bloom, with people staring at their phones instead of at the tree.
This is a variation on the idea that mobile phone users bump into people and objects because they aren’t watching where they are going, as they are too engrossed in their phones
Copyright infringement or copyright violation cartoon

Copyright violation or copyright infringement cartoon
A strip about the illegal sharing of copyrighted images on the internet and intellectual property rights theft
Illegal file sharing also affects music, photographs, written articles and others (as well as cartoons)
NHS computerised medical records system failure – computer virus cartoon
Illustration: the NHS (National Health Service) in Britain spent a fortune on a hi-tech computer system to store and retrieve its medical records.
The system never worked.
The joke in the cartoon is the link between the word virus as used in medicine and computing
Cartoon reference number: a526
Sat nav (GPS) error – car directed to the wrong destination.
Sat nav (GPS) error cartoon – a car directed to the wrong destination by the sat-nav.
A car driving round the rings of Saturn as though they were a ring road
A cartoon about the way that people will follow their sat navs to the wrong destinations
The caption reads: I’ve got a feeling that the sat-nav’s taking us along the wrong ring road.
Cartoon reference number: a522
Cartoons about phones
Welcome to my cartoons about phones, including mobile phones and cell phones.
To see my phone cartoons please click the image on the right, or click phone cartoons here.
Includes cartoons about computers, communications and related subjects
Sat-nav error cartoon. Guided to the wrong destination
Sat-nav cartoon – a car guided by sat-nav taken to the wrong destination
The sat nav (GPS) has guided to car to the wrong M31 (the Andromeda galaxy instead of the M31 motorway).
The M31 motorway doesn’t actually exist by the way – it was planned but never completed.
The cartoon is about the way that car drivers will blindly and slavishly follow the instructions of their sat-navs even when they are completely wrong, sometimes going to the wrong destination of the same name
It says something about the way that the human race can follow the wrong path without realising the potential consequences
This is an astronomy cartoon
Cartoon reference number: a496
Social media cartoon. Twitter cartoon
Twitter cartoon
Tweets cartoon
Social media cartoon
A cartoon about Twitter and tweeting
The cartoon shows birds of the Twitter logo flying out of a cell phone (mobile phone)
A flock of twitter birds
Cartoon reference number: a475
Drowning in digital technology – cartoon
A cartoon about drowning in the overwhelming tide of progress in modern digital technology which makes it hard to keep up and sometimes gives a sense of powerlessness or impotence.
It can also be seen as a cartoon about drowning in immersive technology, where the digital world ‘becomes’ real and overwhelms the user in a different way.
A cartoon about virtual reality, the digital-physical interface, electronic worlds, technological overload, information overload
Immersive technology is digital or electronic technology that affects the senses to such an extent that it is hard to define the line between the real physical world and the artificial digital or simulated world, creating a sense of immersion
Cartoon reference number: a431
Twitter abuse cartoon. A cartoon about social media trolls and malicious messaging
Twitter troll cartoon
A cartoon about malicious tweeting
Twitter attacks illustrated by the Twitter logo pooping on a person (who is being attacked by Twitter
People who send anonymous abusive, bullying, offensive or otherwise malicious messages via social media are known as trolls.
Cartoons about cyber bullying and internet harassment, shitter twitter, tweets, tweeting
Cartoon reference number: a429
Going viral – a cartoon about popular culture and YouTube videos
A cartoon about the most popular YouTube videos and the inanity of popular culture.
“Gangnam Style” tops YouTube viewing figures
A comic comment on popular culture in the internet age
This cartoon was inspired by the fact that the song and video “Gangnam Style” was the most popular YouTube video today.
I’ve got nothing against “Gangnam Style” (in fact I quite like it), but it’s a shame that the most popular areas of popular culture are usually the most inane/mildly amusing/superficial.
The man in this image is implying that he’d like to see something a bit more intelligent topping the internet viewing figures.
The cartoon is about internet trending, going viral, cultural inanity, popular culture.