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  • Air pollution cartoon: a tree creating clear air in a polluted atmosphere

    Atmospheric pollution cartoon - how to breathe clean air in a polluted atmosphere

    Environmental cartoon: pollution cartoon.

    How to breathe clean air in a polluted atmosphere (by using oxygen generated by trees and other plants.

    A cartoon about pollution, clear air, trees as lungs of the world.

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    Original concept: 1991

    Cartoon reference number: env071
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  • The Tree Of Knowledge Discovering What Paper is Made From

    Cartoon: the tree of knowledge discovering that paper is made from wood

    Cartoon: the tree of knowledge reading a book, and discovering that paper is made from trees
    A cartoon about the saying ‘ignorance is bliss’

    A cartoon about the acquisition of knowledge and its possible unsettling consequences

    The cartoon can be interpreted as being about the fact that humans are aware of their own mortality due to their level of awareness
    Cartoon reference: env118
    Cartoon drawn: 1991

  • Transport cartoon: how to avoid traffic congestion using an suv or four wheel drive

    Transport cartoon - urban congestion cartoon

    Transport cartoon
    Urban traffic gridlock cartoon

    A cartoon showing the use of an suv, 4×4,  four wheel drive or Chelsea tractor to beat traffic jams or road congestion.

    Urban traffic flow cartoon
    Cartoon reference number: env047
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  • Large Hadron Collider Cartoon – LHC cartoon

    Large Hadron Collider cartoon

    Large Hadron Collider cartoon
    LHC cartoon

    A cartoon about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The collider wss being used in the search for the Higg’s boson or ‘God Particle’.

    The cartoon shows a hypothetical gift of a kaleidoscope in the research centre’s gift shop at CERN.
    The end of the kaleidoscope resembles the radiating spokes of the LHC, hence the Large Hadron Colliderscope.

    A cartoon about merchandizing subatomic particle physics, merchandising science.
    Drawn: 2009
    Cartoon reference number: qua001
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  • DNA cartoon: DNA creating the Music of Life

    dna cartoon - double helix creating the music of life

    DNA cartoon
    The dna double helix as a musical instrument

    Cartoon of the dna double helix as a harp, playing the music of life.

    The music that the dna is playing is in the key of d(na)

    Cartoon reference number: gen009
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  • Diet Cartoons: How to Achieve a Balanced Diet

    balanced diet cartoon

    Food cartoon: achieving a balanced diet.

    How to achieve a balanced diet as an aid to dieting

    Published as a greetings card by Paperlink.
    Drawn: 2002
    Cartoon reference number: z003
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  • Cartoon. Reality television programme showing infinite regression of person watching reality television

    Cartoon about reality tv. Showing regression of realities in the screen

    Cartoon about reality tv.

    Showing regression of realities in the television screen. The reality on the screen is the mundane reality of the person watching the programme.

    Part of the joke is that if reality television was really about reality it would indeed be a form of infinite regression of the mundane. Reality tv as we know it is very contrived to make it more interesting than day=to-day reality.
    Cartoon reference number: z002
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  • Cartoon: Steve Jobs dies

    steve jobs obituary cartoon

    Cartoon: Steve Jobs dies

    Editorial cartoon on the subject of the death of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple computers.
    Jobs quit his role as ceo of Apple several months ago due to ill health.
    Showing the Apple logo falling from an apple tree, illustrating the death of Steve Jobs and perhaps illustrating Apple’s share price falling as a result (probably in several years’ time).

    Ref: ap001

  • Contemporary art cartoons

    contemporary art cartoons

    Contemporary art cartoon heading illustration

    An illustration featuring a sculpture of the words contemporary art

    In this drawing the words contemporary art are depicted as sculptural letters in the self consciously naive crude artless style of some contemporary art

    Ref: a670

  • Illustration about food obsession

    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

  • Rene Magritte cartoon parody

    Rene Magritte parody of the Son of Man

    Magritte pastiche
    Rene Magritte cartoon parody of The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l’homme)
    The image shows a banker with a coin in front of his face based on the Magritte image of a man with an apple in front of his face

    The idea behind this image is that bankers (and others in the finance industry) see only money and profit. This is implied by the coin that is floating in front of the face of the banker, blocking his perception of anything else but money

    A comment on finance, capitalism, priorities

    The £ sign on the coin can be changed to any other currency

    Ref a612

  • Illustration – unlock your imagination

    Cartoon - unlock your imagination!

    Cartoon featuring a person with a padlock as a head, jumping in the air and saying “Unlock your imagination!”
    An illustration about creativity

    An image for use in art education, classes or presentations on creativity

    The illustration is about freeing the imagination or liberating the mind to be creative, or on unleashing creativity. It is an image to convey the link between creativity and thought processes.
    The cartoon has uses as an illustration in art education or in areas of philosophy or psychology

    Click here for a more bizarre and surreal version of the same idea

    Date created: 2013
    Cartoon reference number: a604

  • Science cartoons

    cartoons about Christmas

    Welcome to my selection of my science cartoons

    To see my science cartoons, please click the image on the right, or click the link below

    Science cartoons

  • Art cartoons

    art cartoons

    Welcome to my selection of cartoons about art

    To see my art cartoons please click the image on the right, or the link below

    Art cartoons.

  • A bad artist and a good artist – cartoon

    a bad artist and a good artist – cartoon

    Good art and bad art cartoon.

    The cartoon shows an artist who is not very talented and who produces second rate work.
    He thinks his work is really good though.
    This could be because he has little insight into his work and is unaware of its low quality.
    The other artist is very artistically astute and therefore is very critical of her own work and sees the shortcomings in it, even though it’s very good.

    Please note – this cartoon holds attitudes to art that I don’t necessarily hold myself!

    Cartoon drawn: 2019

    Cartoon reference number: art046
    This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
    See the book here.
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  • Trees as the lungs of the planet – cartoon

    trees as lungs of planet - environment cartoon

    Cartoon showing a tree as lungs.

    The cartoon uses the fact that lungs have a similar structure and appearance to trees, at least at the level of cartoon art.

    In the cartoon the branches of trees are likened to the bronchial tubes in lungs, with the windpipe as the tree’s trunk.

    Drawn: 2004

    Cartoon reference number: a778
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  • Cartoon – a danger of extreme moral conviction

    Moral-scary-Bin-Laden-Blair-cartoon-madden

    Cartoon – the danger of moral certainty or of strong moral conviction

    Cartoon showing Osama Bin Laden proclaiming jihad against the west, and Tony Blair declaring war. Both men were probably convinced of their moral rightness.

    The caption of the carton is “These guys with their righteous moral certainty are really scary.”
    A cartoon about islamic jihad, islamist extremism, christianity, crusades, intervention
    Cartoon reference number: a514