Satire-Toon Shenanigans

SOMETIMES I GET CARTOON JOB REQUESTS totally out of the blue, and that was the story behind this cartoon below.

In January 2016, a young German chap with his own ideas but in need of cartoon skills got in touch with me and offered me a job drawing up some of his ideas: he intended trying out the USA satire Magazines like NEW YORKER.

I informed him this was an extremely difficult market to crack [although they pay pretty well if you are good enough/lucky enough to get your material accepted].

I dabbled a wee bit in satirical cartooning in the very early 2000s but to be honest I find the British satire mag situation to be snobby and reserved [unlike, say, the unbridled exuberance often seen in the USA equivalent MAD MAGAZINE].

So in all liklihood, these newly-released cartoons were my first real 'proper' excursion into this field.


Here I was trying to approximate the look of the older NEW YORKER ambience and atmosphere.


More of these coming up sometime.

DRAWING IDEA IN THIS INSTANCE NOT BY ME