Cartoonist - Private Eye, Sunday Times etc... Writer - Spike, The Wipers Times, Dave Podmore, A Bunch of Amateurs, Spitting Image. Also tweeting as
@PontWorld
The late great
@tonyhusband1
was brilliant at commemorating the departure of friends with cartoons…here’s my attempt to do the same for him. Farewell Tony, and Yobs.
When the Home Office decided images of Mickey Mouse were too welcoming for migrant children, the PCO Professional Cartoonists responded with a welcoming colouring book for asylum seeking children. It’s at the printers… v proud to be involved
#asylumseekers
Unbearably sad news that the great Tony Husband has died . Creator of Yobs and thousands of brilliant cartoons for
@PrivateEyeNews
and others, he will be hugely missed by friends and readers. RIP Tony.
After
@tonyhusband1
‘s funeral
@PaulHusband_
gave me this cartoon, the last that Tony drew and sent to me from the train on his way to a
@PrivateEyeNews
leaving do. It’s poignant and sad - and I was so touched and moved to be given it. Thank you Paul!
Unbearably sad news that the great Tony Husband has died . Creator of Yobs and thousands of brilliant cartoons for
@PrivateEyeNews
and others, he will be hugely missed by friends and readers. He sent me this cartoon yesterday morning. RIP Tony.
So less than 4 weeks after saying "SORRY" 3 of the water companies have already paid their shareholders £670m in dividends and 2 of the industry's fat cat bosses have been paid £4,800,00 in salary and bonuses.
Here's what I said at the time.
Very chuffed to have been nominated in the Cartoonist of the Year category of the
@PressAwardsuk
for my stuff in
@thetimes
- but up against incredibly tough competition. Congrats to all!
It’s cartoon awards time and I have two gags up for gongs in the Ellwood Atfield political/pocket/gag cartoon awards . Please vote here- all bots welcome…
Eviscerating from Ian Hislop
@PrivateEyeNews
at
@HoCStandards
on MP second jobs. "What do you think these companies are paying the money for? Why do MPs think businesses are paying them all this money?
"I think the public is very sick of being taken for fools at the moment."
As the investigation into who cut down the Sycamore Gap tree continues, a reminder of what sort of vandals do this kind of thing…
#trees
#vandalism
#Conservatives
It’s one year to the day since Liliia and Nataliia arrived from Ukraine … they have brought much joy to our household and we are so lucky to be their hosts.
#SlavaUkraini
A question posed by
@WestminsterWAG
… is the answer possibly because one is basically saying ‘ Be kind to other people’ and the other is glossing over domestic violence perpetrated by a man who is about to be knighted by his son? Is that it?
Huge thanks to
#PCO
and
@EllwoodAtfield
for naming me Pocket Cartoonist of the Year in the Political Cartoon Awards…a great honour! And I got to meet
@AngelaRayner
! A great night, hooking up with fellow cartoonists and celebrating ourselves!
At this time of year you'll be bombarded with tweets from desperate cartoonists begging you to vote for their cartoons in the Political Cartoon Awards. Ignore them, and vote for mine instead. From
@thesundaytimes
...
After a year making jokes about the pandemic,
#COVID19
has the last laugh as I and my family have all tested positive, and are recovering in isolation. Here’s my toon on it for
@thesundaytimes
and Happy New Year to all!
I’ve never been able to get this joke published - perhaps with good reason - but as
#ItsAWonderfulLife
has just been on the telly, I thought I’d share it. Happy Christmas!
RIP Bill Tidy a brilliantly different cartoonist and one of my great influences he kindly wrote me a six page letter (in green ink) on how to be a cartoonist in response to me writing to him for advice when l began. A lovely man too RIP Bill and thankyou 😞😞😞