The utter genius of Steve Bell….

Even by his high standards, he’s outdone himself today….

😆

I always wonder how political cartoonists keeping finding the jokes, but its an easy job really when you have some many jokers to get material from. His stuff on the Falklands back in the day was clever.

His stuff on the Falklands back in the day was clever utter genius.

Yup, it’s the way he gets the essence of the person so spot on – Major wearing his pants on the outside, Blair’s grin, condom-head Dave. Genius.

That’s just about topped the “knickers to Proddies” one. 😆

Brilliant! 😀
Got many of the IF… books from the early/mid eighties

Apparently he’s on the lash quite a lot but still manages to file all this brilliant stuff. Genius.

Another favourite from a while back

the only reason to buy the guardian –steve bell , solid as a rock !

Ow! He’s so sharp you could cut through a brick with his insights. Witty, urbane, deeply observational and SO TRUE TO LIFE.

The man is a bigger genius than Einstein, Beethoven and Tenpole Tudor all rolled together. I just can’t understand why it is that he hasn’t won the Nobel Prize for Unearthily Cosmic Cleverness yet.

How can we have produced such a colossus of, er, cartooning, without elevating him to the deserved status of absolute god-ship?

We are all less than the dirt beneath his shining feet of golden intellect.

Etc., etc., etc…

who dipped your tampon in chilli sauce this morning woppit? 😯

Love Bell, for me the golden age was the early 2000s,

bell is proper– straight to the point, sees through all the bullshit and waffle that others seem to indulge/enjoy– obviously comes from a polemic– just antidote to all the right wing propaganda and obfuscation ism…..had to get that flucker in…

He also can’t spell “lightsaber”.

Ow! He’s so sharp you could cut through a brick with his insights. Witty, urbane, deeply observational and SO TRUE TO LIFE.

The man is a bigger genius than Einstein, Beethoven and Tenpole Tudor all rolled together. I just can’t understand why it is that he hasn’t won the Nobel Prize for Unearthily Cosmic Cleverness yet.

How can we have produced such a colossus of, er, cartooning, without elevating him to the deserved status of absolute god-ship?

We are all less than the dirt beneath his shining feet of golden intellect.
Amazing, not like you to be so right..

BigButSlimmerBloke – Member

Amazing, not like you to be so right..

That’s your best response? IRMC.

I’ve still got this on my office wall:

Some more of my faves

from back in the day…

And one more recent one.

..wing

Am not really a paperist as such but do like these, where can I find more?

Am not really a paperist as such but do like these, where can I find more?

Just google image Steve Bell.

Not sure if he still does books or not though.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/stevebell

displays in reverse date order so for If… which is a strip, go far back and then work forwards

I loved the way he did Prescott

Another couple of good’uns

Its his miliband which has me snorting with laughter on buses etc at the moment

His greatest hits would humble any other cartoonist, but he’s past it now IMHO – see very little wit in his work nowadays. Still comes out with the odd masterpiece (e.g. the Milliband panda above) but there’s loads of deadweight isn’t-Gideon-such-a-**** echo chamber stuff.

His Bush stuff was terrible – embarrassing to see running below Doonesbury in the Guardian. He’s not the first satirist to founder on the rocks of GW though – just because you see a cows arse doesn’t mean you have to whack it with a banjo.