Matt cartoons witty political cartoons and satirical sketches – Telegraph.
Matt’s take on the fellow forced to resign at Sky for his “prehistoric banter”. I don’t think I would buy the DT if it wasn’t for the smile and sometimes outbursts of early morning laughter Matt brings to our breakfast table…
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Matts book is always top of my Christmas list if anyone asks.
I agree, and my day is ruined if I fail to find his wife that he hides in his cartoons.
Ooopss, CWJ, remove my comment #2, wrong cartoonist 🙂
OMG, apparently he produces three or four every morning (or late evening I suppose?) for the editor to choose which one is published. I admire anyone who can think so quickly as to come up in such a short timeframe, with something invariably topical and amusing on whatever is currently making the news. No wonder he has won so many plaudits in the Cartoon Oscars, whatever they are called.
Are you sure Val? Matt’s little man does have a long-suffering wife normally?
I was thinking of Mac in the Daily Mail CWJ 🙂
Val I have a signed copy of one of his cartoons hanging on the wall of my study.
Toc – So do I. How he does it day after day I do not know – the man is so talented.
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CWJ – yes Matt is King, in a premier division on his own. (I used to use his cartoons in the school classroom to generate discussion on 1) the topic, 2) the humour, and for kids with learning difficulties, to simply name and write objects that they could see. I used to blow the pictures up to A4, and make work-sheets out of them!
best cartoonist ever, even beats my old favourite Giles into second place. But Giles’s work was more intricate and bigger pictures, he hasn’t done a lot since he died though.
Rick – I was going to mention Giles as I grew up hooting with laughter at his cartoons. Matt is The Man, though.
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PapaG, what a brilliant way to teach!
Thanks Pseu, appreciate your support! The funny thing with pocket cartoons is that they tell so much with just a few squiggles or lines. Very rarely is someone’s face a completely drawn circle. Our brain joins up all the dots or gaps dots in thousands of a second. The cartoonist is a very clever artist and commentator. But Matt’s humour is wicked!
I envy him his ability to see the funny side of everything and so quickly too.