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Been thinking about the Norman Conquest? Who hasn't with all the hoo-ha about the Bayeux Tapestry. George Morrow had his thoughts in this PUNCH cartoon from 1926: 'Duke William of Normandy discovers an example of Saxon mural decoration' #Saxons #AngloSaxons #WilliamtheConqueror #history
Evening for the hop-pickers of Kent. PUNCH cartoon by Leslie Wood 1963 #hops #September #autumn #oasthouses #Londoners #entertainment
Not often you see a London bus commemorated in a church stained glass window. This is a memorial window for James Kenneth Roe, designed and made by David Griffiths in 2023, located in St Mary's, Downe, a rural village in the London Borough of Bromley, formerly part of Kent.
Back to school.... for some... PUNCH cartoon by Jean-Jacques Sempé 1961 #children #boys #pupils #education
![Scene is morning on a suburban street, a DAD, MUM and their four year old daughter LUCY are in their front garden, taking the first-day-of-school photo.
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DAD:
OK stand by the hedge - smile Lucy!
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[We see both daughter and dad as he takes the photo]
*Click*
3
[We see just the Dad looking at the photo he has just taken on his phone]
DAD:
No I’ll have to take it again… she blinked…
4 [Again we see both Lucy and dad as he takes the photo - but this time Lucy has grown bigger]
DAD: Smile Lucy!
*Click*
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[Again we see just the Dad looking at the photo he has just taken on his phone]
DAD:
No I’ll have to take it again… she grew….
6 [Again we see both daughter and dad, but this time she is bigger still]
DAD: Smile Lucy!
*Click*
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[Dad looking at phone again]
DAD: Nope. She grew again.
LUCY [From off-scene]:
*URRRRGH*
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LUCY [Now a 6th-former]:
Of *course* I grew, dad!
I’m like, a *living organism* persisting through *time* in a constant state of *growth*?
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DAD: Well yes, I know that darling
It’s just you seem to be doing it a bit *faster* today than -
VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE:
Awright babe
10 [We see a TEENAGE BOY, spotty, grinning, etc]
11 DAD: [looks shocked]
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LUCY:
Take one of me and Kev, Dad!
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It occurs to me that, as a working artist, I should probably post my art more often. So here’s a commission I did last year.
"No, Madam, a passport is not necessary for Scotland." Not yet, anyway... PUNCH cartoon by William Sillince 1937 #travel #holidays #vacations #railways #transport #passengers
I'll be making an exhibition of myself next weekend as part of Art Walk Weekends in Portobello Edinburgh. I'll be showing a selection of cartoons from Private Eye @privateeyenews.bsky.social , Big Issue @bigissue.com etc. Along with top artists Watercolourist Peter Jones, Ian Newton and James Donald
My guide to some wartime and post WW2 cartoon books featuring the work of Carl Giles, Roland Davies and other luminaries: downthetubes.net/british-comi...
Laugh With Giles et al: Books Compiled by Samuel Evelyn Thomas
With thanks to Alan Wilson and others, here is a list of the books compiled and some published by Samuel Evelyn Thomas, some known to feature early work by Carl Giles as well as other greats such a…
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ANNOUNCEMENT! It's time to migrate. After two years battling with ISSUU The New Cartoonist has a new home. www.thenewcartoonist.co.uk
Another unsettling bit of crazy genius by artist Frank Hampson. “There was an old woman tossed up in a basket” Ladybird Third Book of Nursery Rhymes , 1967
Off for the Bank Holiday? Hope your snaps aren't something like this! "And this is us getting the tube to Heathrow." PUNCH cartoon by Robert Thompson 1991 #TfL #transport #underground #crowds
