Dylan Horrocks cartoon fundraiser for the Greens
…the original black & white art for page 152 of Dylan Horrocks’s graphic novel Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen (published 2014, nominated for an Eisner Award)
Media
cartoons
Pencilsword: Greed vs Need
Toby Morris explores the differences in how tax fraud and benefit fraud are dealt with, and asks where our sympathies should be.
A couple of morning cartoons
Barclay/English cartooned
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
Pencilsword on renting
Pencilsword does brilliant analysis and commentary in cartoon form. Go check out the latest on the invisible rental crisis…
Murdoch on the tax-cut striptease (NSFW)
RIP Murray Ball
Slane on burning our reputation
Emmerson on the land tax
A cartoon for Planet Key
Stay Classy: TV3’s Newshrub.
TV3 have announced they are getting out of the news business and getting into cross platform media hotdesking across the continuum of diminishing eyeballs. Welcome to TV3 Newshrub, the place where no news is good news!
Body on Key’s moral compass
Emmerson – flag distraction
Tom Scott on housing
Murdoch on Key slash Hosking
Then they came for the cartoonists
More bad news about our media.
Murdoch on state houses then and now
Welcome to Wealth Gap Tower
A great illustration of the gap between money-rich and money-poor in NZ.
Tremain on Northland
Emmerson on dirty political romps
Murdoch on political exits
Happy birthday Auckland
Happy Birthday Auckland. Body in The Herald comments on “A splendid anniversary”…
Emerson on Key’s hypocrisy
The Hypocrisy of Hate
You’d think that with all the WW1 commemorations going on at the moment it would make us more vigilant about our freedom and security, not sleep-walking towards another Holy Crusade (in the name of the God of Money and Father of Fossil Fuels), seduced by slick liars and the gods of commercialism and greed.
Charlie Hebdo: ‘… and not give in to fear’
It is a shocking story to wake up to. A murderous act in a beautiful city. Condolences to those close to the people who were killed, and to the people of Paris and France. It is not a justification for the anti-democratic, invasive extensions to the surveillance state.
Body: John’s Christmas wishlist
Today’s DomPost cartoon
Andrew Little grows into his role as Labour leader.
Lessons from the ’30s and 40’s: culture and the left
We often look to the first Labour Government for core left wing values, & a political way forward. As well as massively restructuring of the NZ economy, work, welfare & housing, that Government aimed to restructure NZ culture & to combat capitalist-dominated popular culture.
Emmerson – The bloodsucker’s treat
Emmerson – What they did in the shadows
Cartoons
Our political cartoonists seem to be aware that something smells fishy:
Emerson on Collins Enquiry
Emerson’s cartoon today in the Herald.
The lighter side of left
How will the media report the apocalypse? And other fun videos, images & links.
Friday Funny
Dilbert on surveillance
Child abuse
