Chris Madden Cartoons

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Illustration about food obsession – Magritte cartoon

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food obsession cartoon - Magritte pastiche

Cartoon about food obsession
Magritte pastiche cartoon

A cartoon about eating disorders or obsessive food disorders, drawn as an editorial illustration for an article about the subject in the Guardian newspaper
The cartoon is based on Rene Magritte’s painting of a person with an apple in front of his face
The beefburger in front of the woman’s face represents obsession with food

Notice that the hills in the background are in the form of food, and the clouds in the sky are in the form of loaves of bread – a reference to Magritte
The cartoon about surrealist art, surrealism, diets, dieting

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Cookery cartoon

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Cookery cartoon - recipe book for beginners

Cookery cartoon – a recipe book for beginners

A cartoon showing a person reading a recipe book to find out how to prepare baked beans

A cartoon about how to cook convenience food and about how people don’t know how to cook
Cartoon reference number: a569

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Garden vegetable glut – gardening and cookery cartoon

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Courgette glut - gardening and cookery cartoon

Vegetable gardening cartoon
Cookery cartoon

Cartoon of a gardener harvesting courgettes from his garden and bringing them into the kitchen

In the kitchen the gardener’s wife is looking at recipes for courgettes and is saying “It’s amazing how many recipes you can find with courgettes in them when you have to”

This is a joke about the problem of gluts of seasonal vegetables and fruit.
Home grown courgettes are a particularly good example of glut-prone vegetables.

Cartoon reference number: a259

See my book of gardening cartoons here.
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Cookery cartoon. Cook losing her temper while cooking a Gordon Ramsay recipe

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Cookery cartoon. Gordon Ramsay recipe

Cookery cartoon. Cook losing her temper while cooking a Gordon Ramsay recipe.

A cartoon about Gordon Ramsey and his bad language and temper.

The cartoon is funny because Gordon Ramsey is famous for swearing a lot, for using bad language and for having a bad temper. The humour lies in the fact that the cook seems to be taking on Gordon Ramsey’s personality traits as part of the cooking process. The cook is channelling Gordon Ramsey.
Cartoon reference number: a055

Wind power cartoon – reduce carbon emissions by attaching a wind turbine to a barbecue

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cartoon bbq powered by wind turbine

Environmental cartoon showing a barbecue powered by wind power instead of using charcoal – as a way of reducing carbon emissions.

Bbq cartoon- how to reduce your barbecue’s carbon footprint.

A cartoon encouraging people to reduce their carbon emissions and carbon footprint by using a wind turbine attached to a barbie.

Cartoon reference number: a046
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Diet cartoon – food fads and food intolerance

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food fad intolerance cartoon

Diet cartoon. A cartoon about gluten intolerance, lactose intolerance, dietary fashions and food fad intolerance.

A cartoon about food intolerance, showing a person who is gluten intolerant (and who is rejecting some bread), a person who is lactose intolerant (and who is rejecting some milk) and a person who is food fad intolerant (and who eating a plate full of food that is normally labelled as unhealthy).

A cartoon about food fads, health, dietary fads, ibs, irritable bowel syndrome, nutrition, allergies, allergy, allergic reactions, food scares.

Cartoon reference number: fd001b

Man doing housework to impress woman cartoons

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man doing housework to impress woman cartoon

Men doing housework cartoons. Men act differently in the company of attractive women.

A cartoon showing a man modifying his behaviour in order to impress an attractive woman (possibly subconsciously).

A cartoon about gender differences, feminism, gender roles, sexual attraction strategies, deception, sexual display, gender interaction.
Cartoon reference number: a028
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Cartoon. Taste, and other aesthetic values, are a matter of circumstance

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Cartoon. Rats looking at decaying food

Cartoon about taste, both gastronomic and aesthetic. Showing that values and tastes that people (or rats) possess are dependant on circumstances, context and so on, and are not fixed or absolute.

Cartoon showing rats looking at a discarded, decaying, rotting piece of food covered with flies and thinking that it looks delicious and attractive. In such circumstances we as humans would be subject to the gag reflex or wretch reaction.
Cartoon reference number: rat131

Vegetarianism cartoon: meat eating partners of vegetarians

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Vegetarian cartoon: partners of vegetarians support group meeting

Meat eating partners of vegetarians cartoon
Vegetarianism cartoon

The cartoon shows an gathering of people who’s partners are vegetarians and vegans, but who are not vegetarian or vegan themselves, and who thus crave meat (which they either aren’t allowed to, or don’t like to, eat in the presence of their partners)

A cartoon about the way that people modify their behaviour in the presence of other people, especially to accommodate the other people’s social, ethical and cultural principles or mores.
A cartoon about food, ethics, meat eating, carnivorous or omnivorous diets, annual dinners, support groups, support networks

Drawn: February 2001
Cartoon reference number: veg251
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Food intolerance cartoon

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Diet cartoon. A cartoon showing a person who is gluten intolerant, a person who is lactose intolerant and a person who is food fad intolerant.

Food fad cartoon
Diet cartoon
A cartoon about gluten intolerance, lactose intolerance and food fad intolerance

A cartoon about food intolerance, showing a person who is gluten intolerant (and who is rejecting some bread), a person who is lactose intolerant (and who is rejecting some milk) and a person who is food fad intolerant (and who eating a plate full of food that is normally labelled as unhealthy)

A cartoon about food fads, health, dietary fads, ibs, irritable bowel syndrome, nutrition, allergies, allergy, allergic reactions, food scares

Cartoon drawn: 2011
Cartoon reference number: fod910
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Practical uses of philosophy – cartoon

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Practical philosophy cartoon

Practical uses of philosophy cartoon
Philosophy in the kitchen cartoon

A man ponders on a variation of Bishop George Berkley’s theory that if you can’t see something it doesn’t exist.
The caption reads: Who said philosophy had no practical uses?
The person is thinking: Because I can no longer see it, the washing up ceases to exist!
Bishop Berkley’s concept is known as idealism – the view that the external world does not exist independently of the mind. According to Berkeley all that exists are minds and their thoughts and sensations, with nothing to suggest that the external material world exists at all

A cartoon about domestic philosophy, materialism, immaterialism, excuses, rationalism, irrationalism, rationalisation, home-spun philosophies, justifications

Cartoon drawn: 2002
Cartoon reference number: phi710
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Cookery cartoon. Too many kitchen gadgets – no room for food

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Cooking cartoon. A kitchen with so many cookery gadgets in it that there's no room for any food

Kitchen cartoon
Cookery cartoon
Too many kitchen gadgets – no room for food

A kitchen full of cookery gadgets so there’s no room on the work surfaces for any food.
A cartoon about the way that people acquire gadgets and devices that they don’t necessarily use (in this case because there’s no room for the things (food) that the gadgets are designed to be used with).

A cartoon about lifestyle, kitchens, gadgets, acquisitiveness, kitchen layout and design, food preparation.
Original version drawn: 2002
Cartoon reference number: fod-11
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Cooking and dieting cartoon. Getting exercise by mixing ingredients

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Cookery and diet cartoon. A woman deceiving herself that mixing the ingredients of a cake counts as exercise

Diet and cookery cartoon
Does mixing ingredients count as ‘exercise’?

Cooking and dieting cartoon
A woman vigorously mixing the ingredients of a cake, deceiving herself that this counts as healthy exercise

A cartoon about health, healthy eating, lifestyle, unhealthy recipes, self deception, wishful thinking

Cartoon drawn: 2005
Cartoon reference number: fod010

Diet cartoon: how to reduce the weight of fattening ingredients in recipes

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Diet cartoon. A woman pushing up on the bottom of food weighing scales to pretend to reduce the weight of unhealthy ingredients

Diet cartoon
Cookery cartoon

Cartoon about dieting showing a young woman pushing up on the bottom of food weighing scales to deceive herself into thinking that she’s reducing the weight of unhealthy ingredients in a recipe

A cartoon about dieting, cooking, low fat food, reducing carbohydrates intake, health, healthy eating, lifestyle, unhealthy recipes

Original version drawn: 2002
Cartoon reference number: fod009
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Barbecue cartoon. Outdoor cooking cartoon

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Barbecue cartoon

Barbecues cartoon
Outdoor cooking cartoon

A cartoon about cooking en plein air,showing a kitchen cooker in a garden in place of a barbecue, as though it was a new fashion in al fresco cooking

A cartoon about food fashions, trends, eating, leisure, outdoor lifestyle, barby, barbie, barbies, summer cookery, cooking culture

Cartoon drawn: 2005
Cartoon reference number: fod008

Genetically modified plants cartoon. Pea pod modified to form bioplastic packaging.

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Genetically modified food cartoon - bioplastic packaging

Bio-plastics cartoon
Genetic modification cartoon

Genetically modified peas – where the cellulose of the pea pod is modified to form plastic packaging.
Plastics produced from plants are known as bio-plastics.

An illustration about gmo, gene modification
Original version drawn: 1999
Cartoon reference: env116

Cookery cartoon – men in the kitchen

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Food preparation cartoon. A man throwing scraps into a kitchen bin - and missing  

Food preparation cartoon
Kitchen cartoon

A man preparing a meal and throwing scraps of food into a kitchen bin. Most of the scraps end up on the kitchen floor.

Possibly an illustration of gender roles in the kitchen and towards housework and chores and in gender differences in general
Cartoon drawn: 2009
Cartoon reference number: fd005
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Cooking cartoon. Kitchen cartoon

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Cookery cartoon: a man looking at a sauce pan in a kitchen and wondering what it's used for

Cookery cartoon or kitchen cartoon

A man looking at a saucepan in a kitchen that’s full of gadgets, wondering what the saucepan is used for
He’s saying “What’s this gadget used for?”

A cartoon about gender differences, about deskilling, and about changes in food preparation methods
Cartoon drawn: 2002
Cartoon reference number: fd003
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Cookery cartoon or kitchen cartoon: a kitchen full of utensils, of which only the tin opener is ever used

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Cooking cartoon - kitchen utensils

Cookery cartoon or kitchen cartoon
Cooking utensils cartoon

A kitchen full of utensils and food preparation gadgets, of which only the tin opener is ever used

The caption of this cartoon reads ” I have all these kitchen utensils – but the only one I ever use is the tin opener.”
Drawn: 2002
Cartoon reference number: fd002

Gardening cartoons: using a teapot to apply weedkiller

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Gardening cartoon - using kitchen utensils in the garden

Gardening cartoon
Garden weedkiller cartoon

A gardener using a teapot to apply weed killer or pesticide to flowers

A cartoon about domestic gender related roles and attitudes – here the male role outside in the garden and the female role in the kitchen – with the man having a cavalier attitude to kitchen utensils.
Original drawn: 2005
Cartoon reference number: gar010

See my book of gardening cartoons here.
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Illustration about food obsession

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food obsession - Magritte pastiche

Cartoon about food obsession
Magritte pastiche

An illustration about eating disorders or obsessive food disorders, drawn as an editorial illustration for an article about the subject in the Guardian newspaper
The cartoon is based on Rene Magritte’s painting of a person with an apple in front of his face
The beefburger in front of the woman’s face represents obsession with food

Notice that the hills in the background are in the form of food, and the clouds in the sky are in the form of loaves of bread – a reference to Magritte
An image about surrealist art, surrealism, diets, dieting

Ref: a614