Britain’s Best Political Cartoons 2019

Britain’s Best Political Cartoons 2019
Author: Tim Benson
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2019-10-31
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1473571766

A hilarious companion to the year’s political turmoil, featuring the work of Martin Rowson, Steve Bell, Peter Brookes, Nicola Jennings and many more . . . 2019 was the year of Brexit, obviously. But it was also the year that Donald Trump went haywire over Huawei, Theresa May got bounced by the backstop, Boris Johnson was hoisted into high office, and the country was corralled into a chaotic Christmas election. In Britain’s Best Political Cartoons 2019, our very finest satirists skewer everything from Kremlin collusion to no-deal confusion, offering a riotous ride through the last twelve months. And did we mention Brexit?

Britain's Best Ever Political Cartoons

Britain's Best Ever Political Cartoons
Author: Tim Benson
Publisher: John Murray
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1529334411

A rip-roaring collection of Britain's finest political satire, from Hogarth and Gillray to Martin Rowson, Steve Bell, Peter Brookes and Nicola Jennings. Between Waterloo and Brexit, cartoons have been Britain's most famous antidote to the chaos of public politics. Skewering the issues and characters that have dominated the news over three centuries, these cartoons have united those who love, and those who hate their politicians. A wild journey through the scandals that made a nation, this is the ultimate book of sketches which have stood the test of time.

Britain’s Best Political Cartoons 2018

Britain’s Best Political Cartoons 2018
Author: Tim Benson
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1473564433

____________ A blockbuster collection of the year’s funniest political cartoons, featuring the work of Mac, Steve Bell, Peter Brookes and many more . . . 2018 was the year that Brexit got serious, royals got married, football got (briefly) feverish, and Trump got transformed into a giant baby blimp. In Britain’s Best Political Cartoons 2018, our very finest satirists turn their eyes and their pens to all these events and more, offering an incisive and often hilarious tour through a tumultuous twelve months.

Giles's War

Giles's War
Author: Tim Benson
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2017-07-13
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1473543924

Few contemporaries captured Britain’s indomitable wartime spirit as well or as wittily as the cartoonist Carl Giles. Now, for the first time, the very best of the cartoons he produced between 1939 and 1945 are brought together, including many that have not seen the light of day in over 75 years. As a young cartoonist at Reynold’s News and then the Daily Express, Giles's work provided a crucial morale boost – and much-needed laughs – to a population suffering daily privations and danger, and Giles's War shows why. Here are his often hilarious takes on the great events of the war – from the Fall of France, via D-Day, to the final Allied victory – but also his wryly amusing depictions of ordinary people in extraordinary times, living in bombed-out streets, dealing with food shortages, coping with blackouts, railing against bureaucracy and everyday annoyances. It's a brilliantly funny chronicle of our nation’s finest hour, as well as a fitting tribute to one of our greatest cartoonists.

Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2017

Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2017
Author: Tim Benson
Publisher: Century
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-02
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781847948076

Another blockbuster collection of the year's wittiest political cartoons, featuring artworks by Steve Bell, Peter Brookes, Martin Rowson, 'Mac' and many more. If 2016 was a tumultuous year for politics, with Brexit, the most tempestuous US presidential campaign in living memory, turmoil in the Labour party and the rise to power of Theresa May, 2017 promises to be even more dramatic. How will President Trump govern? How will the most important and contentious political event in Britain for decades play out? And how many times will Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson say something embarrassing on a trip abroad? In tough political times, satire is more important thanever, and in Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2017, our finest political cartoonists will once again examine the year's events. The series, edited, introduced and with a commentary by Tim Benson, our leading expert on political cartoons, is now firmly established as a strong seller in the run-up to Christmas, and this year's edition promises to be more urgent, angry, insightful and funny than ever.

UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics

UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics
Author: Nicola Streeten
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 3030363007

This book demonstrates that since the 1970s, British feminist cartoons and comics have played an important part in the Women’s Movement in Britain. A key component of this has been humour. This aspect of feminist history in Britain has not previously been documented. The book questions why and how British feminists have used humour in comics form to present serious political messages. It also interrogates what the implications have been for the development of feminist cartoons and for the popularisation of feminism in Britain. The work responds to recent North American feminist comics scholarship that concentrates on North American autobiographical comics of trauma by women. This book highlights the relevance of humour and provides a comparative British perspective. The time frame is 1970 to 2019, chosen as representative of a significant historical period for the development of feminist cartoon and comics activity and of feminist theory and practice. Research methods include archival data collection, complemented by interviews with selected cartoonists. Visual and textual analysis of specific examples draws on literature from humour theory, comics studies and feminist theory. Examples are also considered as responses to the economic, social and political contexts in which they were produced.

Dr. Seuss Goes to War

Dr. Seuss Goes to War
Author: Richard H. Minear
Publisher: New Press/ORIM
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2013-09-10
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1595589902

“A fascinating collection” of wartime cartoons from the beloved children’s author and illustrator (The New York Times Book Review). For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few know the work Geisel did as a political cartoonist during World War II, for the New York daily newspaper PM. In these extraordinarily trenchant cartoons, Geisel presents “a provocative history of wartime politics” (Entertainment Weekly). Dr. Seuss Goes to War features handsome, large-format reproductions of more than two hundred of Geisel’s cartoons, alongside “insightful” commentary by the historian Richard H. Minear that places them in the context of the national climate they reflect (Booklist). Pulitzer Prize–winner Art Spiegelman’s introduction places Seuss firmly in the pantheon of the leading political cartoonists of our time. “A shocker—this cat is not in the hat!” —Studs Terkel

Drawn & Quartered

Drawn & Quartered
Author: Stephen Hess
Publisher: Black Belt Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

This book belongs on the reference shelf of anyone interested in the interplay between cartoons, politics, and public opinion. It provides the reader a historic framework in which to understand the cartoons' meaning and significance.

The Story of British Animation

The Story of British Animation
Author: Jez Stewart
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1911239724

A Sight & Sound Book of the Year Jez Stewart charts the course of this extraordinarily fertile area of British film from early experiments with stop-motion and the flourishing of animated drawings during WWI. He reveals how the rockier interwar period set the shape of the industry in enduring ways, and how creatives like Len Lye and Lotte Reiniger brought art to advertising and sponsored films, building a foundation for such distinctive talents as Bob Godfrey, Alison De Vere and George Dunning to unleash their independent visions in the age of commercial TV. Stewart highlights the integral role of women in the industry, the crucial boost delivered by the arrival of Channel 4, the emergence of online animation and much more. The book features 'close-up' analyses of key animators such as Lancelot Speed and Richard Williams, as well as more thematic takes on art, politics and music. It builds a framework for better appreciating Britain's landmark contributions to the art of animation, including Halas and Batchelor's Animal Farm (1954), Dunning's Yellow Submarine (1968) and the creations of Aardman Animations.

2020

2020
Author: Stella
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2020-11-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781527271432

★★★★ 2020 - The Year We Were All Cancelled! ★★★★★ Stella, former political cartoonist for the Morning Star from 2015-2020, now the weekly cartoonist at uncancelled.co.uk, revisits 2020, the strangest year of our lives. Stella is known in the radical feminist world for her uncompromising, yet unmalicious style. To quote the Morning Star's Arts reviewer: "She is one of this country's most incisive political cartoonists... she frequently subverts the mundanity of the everyday with barbed commentaries on the political scene".