ECONOMY

Fiscal cliff cartoon – road warning sign

Fiscal cliff cartoon
Falling rock warning road sign as fiscal cliff warning sign – cartoon

A cartoon about the fiscal cliff that is threatening the US economy, possibly making the US economy fall into recession.
The cartoon is of a US road warning sign based on a falling rock warning sign, with US dollar signs falling instead of rocks. A person is being hit by the dollar signs

Cartoon reference number: a484
Fiscal cliff cartoon – a dollar sign walking off the edge of the fiscal cliff

Fiscal cliff cartoon
US dollar sign falling off the “fiscal cliff”

A cartoon about the approaching “fiscal cliff” that is threatening the US economy

Cartoon reference number: a483
Globalisation cartoon – a company logo featuring the earth

Globalisation and corporate power cartoon

A company logo featuring the earth.
Many companies and corporations attempt to convey a green or environmentally friendly image by featuring images of the earth on their packaging, literature or promotional material
This cartoon shows a company that is using a globe on their corporate logo as a public relations exercise in projecting environmental awareness, while the globe also has the secondary meaning of the company’s global market domination

The company motto is being discussed. Should it be “One World” or “All ours”?

Cartoon reference number: a466
Economy cartoon – balancing on a declining economy graph

Economics graph cartoon – balancing on a declining economy

A financial graph cartoon showing a businessman or banker on a unicycle trying to balance on the plunging line of the graph as a financial recession occurs

A cartoon about the recession, double dip recessions, balance of trade, finance, money, credit crunch, economics

Cartoon reference number: a417
Euro crisis graph – editorial illustration

Eurozone financial crisis graph – editorial illustration

A downward graph with a euro coin bouncing down the slope of the graph during the euro financial crisis.
An illustration of the global recession.

An editorial illustration about finance, and the eurozone financial crisis.

Cartoon reference number: a390

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Global financial crisis graph – editorial illustration

Editorial illustration about financial recession – downward graph with a globe bouncing down the slope of the graph.

An illustration about the world financial crisis.

An editorial illustration about global finance, world recession and global crisis in general

Cartoon drawn: 2013

Cartoon reference number: a389
UK planning regulations to be relaxed to stimulate the economy – cartoon

UK planning regulations relaxed – cartoon

In an attempt to kick start the economy, the UK government plans to relax planning regulations, meaning that more building work can be carried out without planning permission

This sounds a bit like a goldrush for cowboy builders to me, with jerry-built extensions and conservatories springing up everywhere
A cartoon about the economic recession, austerity, Keynesianism, building regs.

Cartoon drawn: 2012

Cartoon reference number: a382
Italy debt crisis cartoon – the euro as a ball and chain

italian debt crisis cartoon – the euro as a ball and chain

The euro symbol as a ball and chain attached to the ankle of Italy

A financial cartoon about the Italian economy and the European monitory system.

Cartoon reference number: a381
European debt crisis cartoon – the euro as a monster

An editorial illustration about the eurozone crisis

The euro symbol as the mouth of a monster that’s out of control

A financial cartoon about the economic viability of the European monitory system.

Cartoon reference number: a380
Euro bailout fund cartoon. Euro crisis cartoon

An editorial illustration about the euro bailout fund and the eurozone debt crisis.

Editorial illustration for the euro bailout fund and the euro crisis

The euro symbol as a sinking boat taking in water, with someone bailing it out
A political cartoon or financial cartoon about the economy, the eurozone debt crisis, the debt in the euro zone, European monitory system.

Cartoon reference number: a379
Euro crisis cartoon – dragging the euro symbol

An editorial illustration about the eurozone debt crisis.
The euro symbol as a burden being pulled or dragged

Editorial illustration about the euro crisis and the European monitory system, showing the euro sign as a huge weight.

Cartoon created: 2011

Cartoon reference number: a378
Euro crisis cartoon. The euro symbol as a broken harp

An editorial illustration about the eurozone debt crisis.
Euro crisis cartoon. The euro symbol as a broken harp.

Editorial illustration for the euro crisis, showing the euro sign as a harp with broken strings

A political cartoon or financial cartoon about the economy, the eurozone debt crisis, the debt in the euro zone, European monitory system.

Cartoon reference number: a377
Barclays Bank libor scandal cartoon.

Bob Diamond resignation after Barclays Bank libor scandal

Cartoon about the scandal of banks rigging the libor inter-bank lending rate rates to their own advantage.

Cartoon reference number: a315
Barclays Bank chairman resigns cartoon

Barclays chairman Marcus Agius resigns as the chairman following the libor inter-bank lending rate-fixing scandal

Cartoon about the scandal of banks rigging the libor rates to their own advantage.

Barclays Bank accused of “systematic dishonesty”.
Cartoon about financial malpractice and institutional corruption.

Cartoon reference number: a314
Bankers’ pay cartoon. Morality of banking

Banker’s bonus cartoon

Joke about bankers’ salaries

Cartoon showing a job interview in a bank.

The interviewer is asking “What is it that attracts you to a job in banking?”
On the wall of the bank is a gigantic picture of a dollar sign.
A cartoon about bankers’ bonuses, and the bonus culture, the ethics of capitalism and corporate greed.

Cartoon reference number: a312
Banking cartoons – bankers’ bonuses

Cartoon depicting bankers as bank robbers

A bank scandal cartoon – about the moral crisis in banking, evidenced by such incidents as the libor interest rigging scandal

Showing a banker as a thief, robbing from the public (or elsewhere).
The illustration represents a banker’s attitude to the public (The manipulation of the libor rate to the bank’s advantage meant that many customers had to pay more for their mortgages amongst other things).

A member of the public is shouting at the running banker “Stop thief!”
The joke is that the robber is running into the bank, whereas usually robbers are running out of banks.
Barclays Bank accused of “systematic dishonesty”.
Cartoon about finance, financial institutions, financial malpractice and institutional corruption.

Cartoon reference number: a310
Barclays Bank interest rate rigging cartoon.

Barclays bank interest rigging scandal cartoon

An illustration about the scandal of Barclays Bank and other banks rigging the libor rates to their own advantage.

Showing a Barclays Bank logo defecating on the head of a customer.
The cartoon represents Barclays Bank’s attitude to its customers (The manipulation of the libor rate to the bank’s advantage meant that many customers had to pay more for their mortgages amongst other things).

Did Bob Diamond know about the practice of rigging the libor rate?
Barclays Bank accused of “systematic dishonesty”.

Cartoon reference number: a308
Banker cartoon

Banking cartoon
Barclays bank interest rigging scandal

The scandal of traders at Barclays Bank and other banks manipulating the libor rates to their own advantage.

Gag cartoon showing a bank with a sign outside it reading “Warning. Thieves operate in this area”

Did Bob Diamond know about the practice?
Are bankers thieves?
Barclays Bank accused of “systematic dishonesty”.
A humorous comment about finance, financial institutions, banking corruption and libor rigging.

Cartoon reference number: a307
Spain economic crisis – Spanish bank needs propping up – Bankia cartoon

Cartoon about the Euro crisis in Spain.
The bailout of the Spanish bank Bankia – cartoon

Cartoon about the financial crisis in Spain, showing the fact that the bank Bankia needs propping up.

The joke in the cartoon is that the building that houses the headquarters of the Bankia bank is of an unusual architectural design, appearing to lean over dramatically.
The cartoon shows a person taking a photograph of another person who is standing so that in the photo he looks as though he is propping up the tower that is the hq of Bankia. This is a direct reference to what tourists do when they are standing near to the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

As well as being a straightforward joke about the leaning tower, the cartoon also has the more serious underlying point in that it asks whether the support given to Bankia will be effective, and whether the effectiveness in holding back the possible collapse of the euro currency will be illusory (shown by the illusion of the man holding up the bank in the photo).
A cartoon about the euro crisis, bank bailouts, struggling economy, banking debt.

Cartoon reference number: a287
Will Greece drop the euro? The Discobolus (Discus Thrower) in a metaphor for the Greek financial crisis

Cartoon about the Euro crisis – Greece. Discobolus (Discus Thrower) dropping the euro

Cartoon about the financial crisis in the euro zone, especially in Greece.

Chris Madden cartoon showing the ancient Greek statue or sculpture the Discobolus, or Discus Thrower, by Myron as a metaphor for Greece and the Greek economy, with the discus replaced by a euro coin which the discus thrower has dropped. A pedantic note – the statue of the Discobolus in the cartoon has got the head pointing in the correct direction – most versions of the statue in existence (all are Roman copies of the lost original) are reconstructed from fragments and have the head looking forwards and down, which was found to be incorrect when a nearly complete version was uncovered.
The cartoon is about the possibility of the Greeks dropping the euro.
If Greece drops the euro they will return to the pre-euro Greek currency, the drachma

The dropped euro has cracked the plinth on which the Greek statue stands, and the euro coin is bouncing into a dustbin (which mirrors the shape of the plinth on which the Discobolus stands.
Chris Madden cartoon about the financial crisis in Greece, political cartoon about the eurozone falling apart.

Cartoon reference number: a286
Thieves Operate in this Area! Cartoon about banking and the City of London

Warning – Thieves Operate in this Area!
Cartoon about bankers and banking in the City of London (or any other financial centre)

Cartoon about the dubious morality of some areas of banking and the financial sector.
The cartoon likens bankers and financiers to thieves or robbers.

The cartoon is an illustration of one aspect of the current popular image of bankers – that bankers are greedy and amoral and are only interested in their bonuses.
A cartoon about banks, bank ethics and morals, the morality of the financial sector, City of London, banking district, financial quarter, capitalism, credit crisis.

Cartoon reference number: a285
Cartoon – bankers’ bonuses creating instability in the economy

Bankers’ bonus cartoon

Cartoon about bankers’ bonuses. Showing a banker holding a bonus, with the ground beneath the banker cracking under the weight of the bonus.

A cartoon about large bankers bonuses and the effects of the bonus culture.
Bankers’ bonuses and salaries are so grossly inflated that they are destabilising the economy and are causing economic and social fracturing (symbolised in the cartoon by the fact that the ground beneath the banker is fracturing and cracking due to the large size of the banker’s bonus, thus destroying the economic base on which the economy is built).
The cartoon is an illustration of the social and economic instability that is resulting from the runaway growth of bonuses and top salaries under the current unregulated version of the capitalist system.

Cartoon reference number: a116
Euro debt crisis cartoon. A balloon in the form of the euro coin

An editorial cartoon responding to the eurozone debt crisis in the period around 2010. A cartoon showing the euro coin as a balloon plunging downwards.
The balloon, being made of metal – like the euro coin – is too heavy to fly, and thus it is plunging downwards.

The idea behind the illustration is that the design of the European currency, the euro, is fundamentally flawed as it didn’t take into account fundamental issues of financial structures within the European community (the eurozone) or politics. This is symbolised by the fact that the balloon is incapable of flying.

The flat euro coin has to be transformed into a sphere for it to become a balloon. The ambiguity of the flat form of the coin and the spherical form of the balloon is a deliberate aspect of the cartoon.
Drawn: 2010

Cartoon reference number: eur13
Cartoon about the euro debt crisis

An editorial illustration about the eurozone debt crisis. A cartoon showing the euro slipping down a slope.

A cartoon showing the euro symbol on a slope (representing a downward graph).

A cartoon about the eurozone debt crisis, the debt in the euro zone.

Cartoon drawn: 2011

Cartoon reference number: eur331
Euro crisis cartoon. The euro symbol represented by dinosaur bones

A cartoon or illustration about the eurozone debt crisis that occurred around 2010.

A cartoon showing the euro symbol as dinosaur bones – implying that the euro may be about to become extinct at some point in the future.

A cartoon about the eurozone debt crisis, the debt in the euro zone.
Drawn: 2010

Cartoon reference number: eur531
Euro debt crisis timebomb

An editorial illustration about the euro zone debt crisis. A cartoon showing the euro as a ‘cartoon’ timebomb.

The cartoon includes a fuse to the bomb, with the spark on the fuse as a star (one of the stars in the eurozone symbol that represent the countries within the eurozone).
The implication is that one of the countries in the euro-zone will somehow detonate the bomb (or escalate the euro crisis).

A cartoon about the debt in the eurozone and the euro debt crisis.

Cartoon drawn: 2011

Cartoon reference number: eur411
Euro debt crisis cartoon

Euro cartoon
An editorial illustration or cartoon about the euro crisis

Illustration in the form of a silhouette style image depicting the euro symbol being carried over a rickety bridge. The bridge may or may not collapse, and it’s unclear where it is leading anyway

An editorial cartoon or illustration dealing with the eurozone crisis, the future of the euro, the euro debt crisis, the European community financial crisis

Cartoon drawn: 2011

Cartoon reference number: euro17
Euro crisis cartoon – European currency depicted on a disabled sign

European debt crisis cartoon

An illustration showing the symbol for the European currency, the euro, as the wheelchair on the disabled access sign.
The wheelchair is about to go down a flight of steps that resembles a financial graph

The illustration is about the European community financial crisis, euro crisis, eurozone crisis, the future of the euro, the euro debt crisis

Cartoon drawn: 2011

Cartoon reference number: euro15
Euro debt crisis financial cartoon – the euro as the weakest link in a chain

Euro crisis editorial cartoon
Illustration showing the euro currency symbol as the weakest link in a chain

If the euro symbol breaks the chain (symbolising the European community will fall apart.
At the time of drawing, the weakest link was Greece, but the Italian economy was showing signs of unsustainable interest rates creating a debt crisis in Italy

An illustration about the EU debt crisis, European cohesion, European unity, monetary policy, finance, financial interdependence between the nations of Europe.
Drawn: 2011

Cartoon reference number: euro91
Cartoon about overpopulation – and expanding markets

Overpopulation cartoon

A cartoon showing the author of a book about overpopulation realising that the more people there are on the planet the more potential purchasers of his book there are.
This is a cartoon that is partly about the fact that some types of measurement of economic ‘progress’ are dependant on a rising population (as a way of supplying more consumers)

A cartoon about overpopulation, expanding markets, consumerism, misleading statistics, population timebomb, economic growth

Drawn: 2011

Cartoon reference number: pop91

ECONOMY

Fiscal cliff cartoon Falling rock warning road sign as fiscal cliff warning sign – cartoon

A cartoon about the fiscal cliff that is threatening the US economy, possibly making the US economy fall into recession. The cartoon is of a US road warning sign based on a falling rock warning sign, with US dollar signs falling instead of rocks. A person is being hit by the dollar signs

Cartoon reference number: a484

Fiscal cliff cartoon US dollar sign falling off the “fiscal cliff”

A cartoon about the approaching “fiscal cliff” that is threatening the US economy

Cartoon reference number: a483

Globalisation and corporate power cartoon

Cartoon reference number: a466

Economics graph cartoon – balancing on a declining economy

A financial graph cartoon showing a businessman or banker on a unicycle trying to balance on the plunging line of the graph as a financial recession occurs

Cartoon reference number: a417

Eurozone financial crisis graph – editorial illustration

A downward graph with a euro coin bouncing down the slope of the graph during the euro financial crisis. An illustration of the global recession.

An editorial illustration about finance, and the eurozone financial crisis.

Cartoon reference number: a390

Editorial illustration about financial recession – downward graph with a globe bouncing down the slope of the graph.

An illustration about the world financial crisis.

An editorial illustration about global finance, world recession and global crisis in general

Cartoon drawn: 2013

Cartoon reference number: a389

UK planning regulations relaxed – cartoon

In an attempt to kick start the economy, the UK government plans to relax planning regulations, meaning that more building work can be carried out without planning permission

This sounds a bit like a goldrush for cowboy builders to me, with jerry-built extensions and conservatories springing up everywhere A cartoon about the economic recession, austerity, Keynesianism, building regs.

Cartoon drawn: 2012

Cartoon reference number: a382

italian debt crisis cartoon – the euro as a ball and chain

The euro symbol as a ball and chain attached to the ankle of Italy

A financial cartoon about the Italian economy and the European monitory system.

Cartoon reference number: a381

An editorial illustration about the eurozone crisis

The euro symbol as the mouth of a monster that’s out of control

Cartoon reference number: a380

An editorial illustration about the euro bailout fund and the eurozone debt crisis.

Editorial illustration for the euro bailout fund and the euro crisis

The euro symbol as a sinking boat taking in water, with someone bailing it out A political cartoon or financial cartoon about the economy, the eurozone debt crisis, the debt in the euro zone, European monitory system.

Cartoon reference number: a379

An editorial illustration about the eurozone debt crisis. The euro symbol as a burden being pulled or dragged

Editorial illustration about the euro crisis and the European monitory system, showing the euro sign as a huge weight.

Cartoon created: 2011

Cartoon reference number: a378

An editorial illustration about the eurozone debt crisis. Euro crisis cartoon. The euro symbol as a broken harp.

Editorial illustration for the euro crisis, showing the euro sign as a harp with broken strings

A political cartoon or financial cartoon about the economy, the eurozone debt crisis, the debt in the euro zone, European monitory system.

Cartoon reference number: a377

Bob Diamond resignation after Barclays Bank libor scandal

Cartoon about the scandal of banks rigging the libor inter-bank lending rate rates to their own advantage.

Cartoon reference number: a315

Barclays chairman Marcus Agius resigns as the chairman following the libor inter-bank lending rate-fixing scandal

Cartoon about the scandal of banks rigging the libor rates to their own advantage.

Cartoon reference number: a314

Banker’s bonus cartoon

Joke about bankers’ salaries

Cartoon showing a job interview in a bank.

Cartoon reference number: a312

Cartoon depicting bankers as bank robbers

A bank scandal cartoon – about the moral crisis in banking, evidenced by such incidents as the libor interest rigging scandal

Showing a banker as a thief, robbing from the public (or elsewhere). The illustration represents a banker’s attitude to the public (The manipulation of the libor rate to the bank’s advantage meant that many customers had to pay more for their mortgages amongst other things).

Cartoon reference number: a310

Barclays bank interest rigging scandal cartoon

An illustration about the scandal of Barclays Bank and other banks rigging the libor rates to their own advantage.

Showing a Barclays Bank logo defecating on the head of a customer. The cartoon represents Barclays Bank’s attitude to its customers (The manipulation of the libor rate to the bank’s advantage meant that many customers had to pay more for their mortgages amongst other things).

Cartoon reference number: a308

Banking cartoon Barclays bank interest rigging scandal

The scandal of traders at Barclays Bank and other banks manipulating the libor rates to their own advantage.

Gag cartoon showing a bank with a sign outside it reading “Warning. Thieves operate in this area”

Cartoon reference number: a307

Cartoon about the Euro crisis in Spain. The bailout of the Spanish bank Bankia – cartoon

Cartoon about the financial crisis in Spain, showing the fact that the bank Bankia needs propping up.

Cartoon reference number: a287

Cartoon about the Euro crisis – Greece. Discobolus (Discus Thrower) dropping the euro

Cartoon about the financial crisis in the euro zone, especially in Greece.

Cartoon reference number: a286

Warning – Thieves Operate in this Area! Cartoon about bankers and banking in the City of London (or any other financial centre)

Cartoon about the dubious morality of some areas of banking and the financial sector. The cartoon likens bankers and financiers to thieves or robbers.

Cartoon reference number: a285

Bankers’ bonus cartoon

Cartoon about bankers’ bonuses. Showing a banker holding a bonus, with the ground beneath the banker cracking under the weight of the bonus.

Cartoon reference number: a116

An editorial cartoon responding to the eurozone debt crisis in the period around 2010. A cartoon showing the euro coin as a balloon plunging downwards. The balloon, being made of metal – like the euro coin – is too heavy to fly, and thus it is plunging downwards.

Fiscal cliff cartoon
Falling rock warning road sign as fiscal cliff warning sign – cartoon

A cartoon about the fiscal cliff that is threatening the US economy, possibly making the US economy fall into recession.
The cartoon is of a US road warning sign based on a falling rock warning sign, with US dollar signs falling instead of rocks. A person is being hit by the dollar signs

Fiscal cliff cartoon
US dollar sign falling off the “fiscal cliff”

A downward graph with a euro coin bouncing down the slope of the graph during the euro financial crisis.
An illustration of the global recession.

This sounds a bit like a goldrush for cowboy builders to me, with jerry-built extensions and conservatories springing up everywhere
A cartoon about the economic recession, austerity, Keynesianism, building regs.

The euro symbol as a sinking boat taking in water, with someone bailing it out
A political cartoon or financial cartoon about the economy, the eurozone debt crisis, the debt in the euro zone, European monitory system.

An editorial illustration about the eurozone debt crisis.
The euro symbol as a burden being pulled or dragged

An editorial illustration about the eurozone debt crisis.
Euro crisis cartoon. The euro symbol as a broken harp.

Showing a banker as a thief, robbing from the public (or elsewhere).
The illustration represents a banker’s attitude to the public (The manipulation of the libor rate to the bank’s advantage meant that many customers had to pay more for their mortgages amongst other things).

Showing a Barclays Bank logo defecating on the head of a customer.
The cartoon represents Barclays Bank’s attitude to its customers (The manipulation of the libor rate to the bank’s advantage meant that many customers had to pay more for their mortgages amongst other things).

Banking cartoon
Barclays bank interest rigging scandal

Cartoon about the Euro crisis in Spain.
The bailout of the Spanish bank Bankia – cartoon

Warning – Thieves Operate in this Area!
Cartoon about bankers and banking in the City of London (or any other financial centre)

Cartoon about the dubious morality of some areas of banking and the financial sector.
The cartoon likens bankers and financiers to thieves or robbers.

An editorial cartoon responding to the eurozone debt crisis in the period around 2010. A cartoon showing the euro coin as a balloon plunging downwards.
The balloon, being made of metal – like the euro coin – is too heavy to fly, and thus it is plunging downwards.

The flat euro coin has to be transformed into a sphere for it to become a balloon. The ambiguity of the flat form of the coin and the spherical form of the balloon is a deliberate aspect of the cartoon.
Drawn: 2010

A cartoon about the eurozone debt crisis, the debt in the euro zone.
Drawn: 2010

The cartoon includes a fuse to the bomb, with the spark on the fuse as a star (one of the stars in the eurozone symbol that represent the countries within the eurozone).
The implication is that one of the countries in the euro-zone will somehow detonate the bomb (or escalate the euro crisis).

Euro cartoon
An editorial illustration or cartoon about the euro crisis

An illustration showing the symbol for the European currency, the euro, as the wheelchair on the disabled access sign.
The wheelchair is about to go down a flight of steps that resembles a financial graph

Euro crisis editorial cartoon
Illustration showing the euro currency symbol as the weakest link in a chain

If the euro symbol breaks the chain (symbolising the European community will fall apart.
At the time of drawing, the weakest link was Greece, but the Italian economy was showing signs of unsustainable interest rates creating a debt crisis in Italy

An illustration about the EU debt crisis, European cohesion, European unity, monetary policy, finance, financial interdependence between the nations of Europe.
Drawn: 2011