This is my cartoon comment on the 2012 Federal Budget, published on the Pro Bono website. To go to the website page, click here.
The look of the cartoon is a bit different as it is my first serious attempt at drawing on an iPad, with finger and stylus. I was away from my office, computer, scanner etc this week – so it was a good test.
The Scratchy Lines cartoon from the April New Internationalist
Some more rough drafts from the ‘not chosen’ folder – before their issues become old history (if only!).
Each month I send two or three draft cartoon ideas to the New Internationalist editors. They can select which one will suit. The cartoon needs to ‘work’ of course. It also needs to still be topical in six weeks time – when the issue being prepared comes out. That is tricky.
The rough drafts are real ‘cartoons’ in the original sense of the word – sketched out preliminary drawings for some finished art work. It’s a bit odd but they often look more fresh and lively than the finished cartoon.
Here’s a rough draft of the one that didn’t get the nod for the issue-after-next’s cartoon….
The January/February issue of New Internationalist is in the newsagents.
Here is my Scratchy Lines cartoon, which appears on the Letters page:
The latest issue of Australian Options is out. To subscribe click here.
Below is a cartoon drawn to illustrate one of the articles in this issue: ‘Policy in the wake of the banking crisis: taking pluralism seriously’ by Sheila Dow.
As the article states ‘There is a limit to how far economists can understand a complex reality, far less predict the future. But fostering a range of perspectives and analytical methods would make economics much more robust in the face of unexpected developments …’
The GFC and Management … here are some cheap shots …
Not quite the Oscars but with a much bigger budget …
Cartoon from the latest issue of New Internationalist – link at the bottom of this page.
Here are a couple of recent editorial cartoons from the monthly New Internationalist magazine.
Somalia
Australian Options is a quarterly journal founded in 1995. The latest issue is significant as it records the death of one of the journal’s founders and driving forces, Elliott Johnston QC.
I have drawn cartoons for Australian Options since its first issue. Here are some examples from the present issue (subscribe to read the articles!)
Dinosaurs
ten years and...
What planet...?
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