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  • Cartoon about death. The grim reaper approaching

    Cartoon. The figure of death approaching

    Cartoon about death and the grim reaper.

    Cartoon about death and the grim reaper. The grim reaper approaching some people who are trying to avoid him – but they are getting older and slower and won’t be able to outrun him for long.

    A cartoon about mortality, death, time running out, intimations of mortality, old age.
    Cartoon reference number: a088

    There’s another version of this cartoon here.

  • Therapy cartoon. If you’re too happy perhaps you need therapy

    Cartoon - you're too contented - you need therapy

    Psychotherapy (or just plain therapy) Cartoon. Happiness cartoon.

    Therapy cartoon – showing a woman saying to her partner “I’m worried about how contented you seem – I think you need therapy”
    She is over analysing people’s moods and even diagnosing happiness or being happy as a mental condition that requires treatment.

    Happiness cartoon. A cartoon about the potential over use of therapy, analysis, counselling, psychology, psychiatry, psychotic states.
    Cartoon reference number: a086

  • Anti-smoking cartoon parody of 1980s John Player Special cigarette advertising campaign

    Cigarette advert parody illustration

    An anti smoking cartoon that parodies cigarette advertising.

    This is an anti-smoking cartoon parody of a cigarette advertising campaign for John Player Special cigarettes in the early 1980s.

    The cigarette packets were black, and the advertising campaign relied on a number of visual puns and word plays on the word black (using the similarity between the words ‘black’ and ‘back’) – word plays such as “Black chat” (with a photo of two packs of cigarettes looking as though they were talking to each other) and “Flash black” (with a photograph of a cigarette packet surrounded by flashes of lightning).
    My parody or spoof advert used similar plays on the word black, but giving it a negative spin such as by using the term “Black death” (with a skull made out of cigarette packets), “Black to the land” (i.e. being in a grave, with a cigarette packet as a gravestone) “Blackstabber” (being stabbed in the back with a cigarette) and “Black against the wall” (being against a wall with a firing squad – the bullets being cigarettes).
    This is an anti-smoking cartoon or illustration that was drawn when cigarettes were still advertised on bill boards or advertising hoardings in Britain.
    An extra touch in the illustration is the figure who is walking out of the cartoon to the left. It is a figure who is wheeling a shopping basket in the form of a John Player Special cigarette packet. The hand clutching the basket is a skeleton, because the figure is death.
    A cartoon against the tobacco industry.

     

    Cartoon reference number: a064

  • Cartoon. Brain function in the elderly slower than in the young

    old people slow thinkers cartoon

    A cartoon about the fact that older people are slower thinkers than young people. However, they are also deeper thinkers.

    Cartoon. Old people are often dismissed as slower thinkers than the young (especially by the young). However, due to their maturity they are also deeper thinkers than the young. This depth of thought is often overlooked and ignored by the young (because younger people have more superficial thoughts).
    In this cartoon the thoughts of older people are likened to the flowing of a great river as it nears the sea – slow and deep – with the thought processes of younger people being compared (by implication) to the rapid, shallow, tumultuous flow of streams nearer the river’s source.

    Slower brian function is often equated with loss of brain function, however this doesn’t necessarily imply a simple correlation with inferior brain function.
    Of course degenerative brian diseases are another matter.
    A cartoon about diminishing brain function in the elderly, brain degeneration, mental skills, IQ tests, intelligence, brian function, wisdom, cognition, cognitive impairment.
    Cartoon reference number: a060
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  • Diet cartoon – food fads and food intolerance

    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

  • Therapy cartoon. Anger management counselling

    anger management counselling cartoon

    A cartoon about anger management therapy.

    Cartoon about anger management therapy.
    Cartoon showing a group of patients waiting in the waiting room outside an anger management counsellor’s consulting room.
    There is a bell outside the consulting room, with a notice on it saying “Please ring before entering”.
    The bell is on a fair ground “ring the bell with a hammer” apparatus.

    A cartoon about therapy, anger management counselling, councilling, counseling, managing aggression, frustration

    Cartoon reference number: ang712
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  • Health and safety gone mad – cartoon

    Health and safety gone mad

    Cartoon – health and safety gone mad
    Health and safety guidelines

    A cartoon showing an officious inspector making a judgement on a health and safety issue. A child wrapped in cottonwool to protect it from danger – but the cottonwool itself is judged to contravene health and safety guidelines because it is a choke hazard

    A cartoon about the over-zealous implementation of petty rules concerning health and safety regulations

    Cartoon drawn: 2011
    Cartoon reference number: saf31
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  • Smoking related health statistics cartoon

    Smoking health cartoon. Misleading statistics for smoking-related illness

    Smoking health cartoon
    Cigarette cartoon

    Cartoon caption: “If you smoke you’re less likely to die of an age-related illness”.
    A cartoon about the misleading use of statistics.

    A cartoon showing a research laboratory doing medical research into the medical and health related effects of smoking cigarettes. The rerearch laboratory belongs to an organisation called “The Tobacco Industry Research Centre”, indicating that it’s sponsored by the tobacco industry.
    The results of the research are given a positive spin by announcing that they show that statistically cigarette smokers are less likely to die of age-related illnesses.
    This is of course because smokers are statistically more likely to die before they get old enough to suffer from the diseases of old age.

    A cartoon about vested interests, research bias, statistical misrepresentation, medical research, misleading health statistics.
    Original cartoon drawn: 2010

    Cartoon reference number: tob25

  • Darts cartoon. Overweight darts players

    Darts cartoon. Darts championship

    Darts players cartoon
    Cheating at sport cartoon

    A darts championship match, showing a dart bouncing out of the board and puncturing the player’s false beer belly
    A cartoon about the physique or body type of the stereotypical darts player. The darts player in the cartoon is using a false ‘beer belly’ in order to conform to the stereotype

    A cartoon about conformity, cheating, obese, obesity, sport, pub sport, stereotypes

    Cartoon drawn: 2011
    Cartoon reference number: dart11
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  • Childhood obesity cartoon. The Pied Piper of Hamelin

    Obesity cartoon. The Pied Piper of Hamelin and childhood obesity

    Pied Piper of Hamelin cartoon
    Childhood obesity cartoon

    Cartoon showing the Pied Piper leading children to a cave. However, the children are all too obese to keep up with him, except for one fit child.
    In the usual pied piper fairy tale the piper lures all of the children away, with only one child, who was a cripple, surviving because he couldn’t keep up. This cartoon turns the story on its head, with all of the children being too ufit and over-weight to keep up. The only child who can keep up is the one fit and healthy child from the town

    A cartoon about Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales, health, diet

    Cartoon drawn: 2011
    Cartoon reference number: pip141
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  • Dyslexia cartoon

    dyslexia cartoon

    A cartoon about dyslexia

    Dyslexia Cartoon. This cartoon shows a dyslexic person arriving at an airport and not being able to read the notice that’s held by the man who’s there to meet him.
    Dyslexia is the inability to recognise written words (word blindness), and is a condition that’s unrelated to intelligence or other cognitive functions

    Cartoon reference number: dys881b

  • Happiness illustration – the thought processes of an optimist

    Illustration - happiness

    Psychology cartoon
    How to be happy

    A cartoon showing happiness. A person thinking happy thoughts that are acting like an umbrella to keep rain off, or as a buffer against the unpleasant side of experience

    Psychology cartoon about mental states, mindsets, positive thoughts, positive thought processes, optimism, glass half full, how to be happy, positive energy, cheery, therapy, cbt, cognitive behavioural therapy, smile, smiling

    Cartoon drawn: 2011
    Cartoon reference number: hap881
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  • Optimism illustrated – psychology cartoon

    Illustration. How optimism works

    Psychology illustrations. The mind set of an optimist.

    Psychology cartoons – a cartoon showing how optimism works. Showing a person thinking optimistic thoughts that are acting like an umbrella to keep rain off.

    Psychology cartoon about mental states, mindsets, positive thoughts, positive thought processes, happiness, glass half full, how to be happy, positive energy, cheery, therapy, cbt, cognitive behavioural therapy, smile, incurable optimist, projection.
    Cartoon reference number: opt88

    See also the accompanying illustration about pessimism.

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  • Pessimism illustrated

    Illustration. How pessimism works

    Psychology illustration. The mind set of a pessimist.

    Psychology Cartoon – a cartoon showing how pessimism works. A person outside on a sunny day. A thought bubble from the person is hovering over the person’s head. It takes the form of a dark cloud with rain pouring from it.

    Psychology cartoon about mental states, mindsets, negative thoughts, negative thought processes, happiness, sadness, depression, how to be happy, therapy, cbt, cognitive behavioural therapy, glass half empty, projection, glum person, gloomy thoughts.
    Cartoon reference number: pes88

    See also the accompanying illustration about optimism.

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  • Smoking ban cartoon

    Smoking ban cartoon. Smokers standing outside office block in street.

    Smoking ban cartoon
    Smokers in street

    Smokers standing in the street outside an office block. The office block is the government’s Department of Health

    A cartoon about cigarettes, health, smoke, secondary smoking, no smoking, smoking prohibition, the tobacco industry.
    Cartoon reference number: smo710

  • Obesity cartoon – an obese man reaching for a diet book

    Obesity cartoon. An obese man reaching for a diet book - but he's too fat to reach it

    Obesity cartoon

    An overweight or obese man reaching for a diet book – but he’s thwarted because he’s too fat to reach it.

    A cartoon about obesity, dieting, diets, self help manuals, health, eating disorders.
    Cartoon reference number: obe710

  • Hygiene cartoon. An electric hand drier splashing the user’s face

    Cartoon showing an electric hand drier splashing the user's face

    Hygiene cartoon
    An electric hand drier in a public toilet or washroom splashing the user’s face

    A cartoon showing a model of hot air hand drier splashing the user’s face with water due to a design flaw of the drier. Hand driers of this type were first introduced by the Dyson company (I think), who pride themselves on their innovations in design. Other companies also make similar hand driers, possibly in imitation.
    The Dyson drier is called the Airblade (Dyson has a tendency towards masculine design and names – their vacuum cleaner is very male orientated too!)

    A cartoon about health, design flaws, hand dryers, hand washing

    Cartoon drawn: 2011
    Cartoon reference number: hyg001
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