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

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Posted : 11/01/2013 10:16 am
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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.


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 10:18 am
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His stuff on the Falklands back in the day was [s]clever[/s] utter genius.


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 10:22 am
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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.


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 10:23 am
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That's just about topped the "knickers to Proddies" one. 😆


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 10:24 am
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Brilliant! 😀
Got many of the IF... books from the early/mid eighties

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Posted : 11/01/2013 10:25 am
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Apparently he's on the lash quite a lot but still manages to file all this brilliant stuff. Genius.


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 10:30 am
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Posted : 11/01/2013 10:32 am
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Another favourite from a while back

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Posted : 11/01/2013 10:36 am
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the only reason to buy the guardian --steve bell , solid as a rock !


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 10:50 am
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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...


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 11:01 am
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who dipped your tampon in chilli sauce this morning woppit? 😯


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 11:03 am
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Love Bell, for me the golden age was the early 2000s,

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Posted : 11/01/2013 11:12 am
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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...


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 11:12 am
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He also can't spell "lightsaber".


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 11:13 am
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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..


 
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Amazing, not like you to be so right..

That's your best response? IRMC.


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 11:21 am
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I've still got this on my office wall:

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Posted : 11/01/2013 11:24 am
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Some more of my faves

from back in the day...

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And one more recent one.

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Posted : 11/01/2013 11:39 am
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Posted : 11/01/2013 11:44 am
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..wing


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


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 12:09 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 12:11 pm
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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


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 12:14 pm
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I loved the way he did Prescott

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Another couple of good'uns

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Posted : 11/01/2013 12:17 pm
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Its his miliband which has me snorting with laughter on buses etc at the moment

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Posted : 11/01/2013 12:22 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 11/01/2013 12:58 pm