Bird brain

Mustn’t miss those important tweets

The idea for this cartoon came to me as I was walking through a park this morning.

I stopped to listen to and watch a blackbird sing.

I had my phone and headphones on me but was purposefully not using either, instead my attention was given to the world around me which rang with the sonorous trill of birds.

Our minds are easily distracted and aroused, and this is a lucrative fact, exploited by apps and media constantly. It’s good to ignore the shove and push notifications and listen to the birds from time to time. Here’s wishing Good Mental Health to you this #mentalhealthawarenessweek, and beyond.

Batman vs Coronavirus

Quick doodle of a new take on the Batman origin story in this time of COVID-19 and social distancing. Stay home, protect the very real heroes working on the frontline.

Rose, thou art sick

A suggested new logo for the UK’s Labour Party, which is now undergoing a statutory investigation by the EHRC into its institutional racism and discrimination against Jews, including its Jewish members and staff. The second party to face such an investigation after the BNP, a far-right, fascist party.

You can see more about how we arrived at this tragic, sickening point in this twitter thread

O Rose thou art sick.

The invisible worm,

That flies in the night

In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy:

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

D-day

Donald Trump is in the UK during the commemoration of D-day. The allies defeated the Nazis. They didn’t praise them as fine people as he did the white supremacists of Charlottesville. Here is the only D I think fitting. His father was arrested at a Klan rally.

Trumpty Dumbty

He keeps giving, only in the sense he keeps reaching new levels of dumb arrogance. The accusation that he is, through his Trump Tower Moscow, a compromised asset of Russia seems less and less unlikely with every new revelation.

He recently revealed the stupid design for his stupid border wall:

So I thought I would quickly add my own comment on it, here, this simple detail:

Three D

Trying to capture Donald Trump in a sketch, I eventually ended up with this. His father Fred was arrested following a Ku Klux Klan and NY Police related altercation in 1927.

Menswear

 

Taking liberties

 

‘There, I’ve taken it off, better?’

In Cannes, France, a woman was forced to disrobe on the beach as part of the temporary ‘burkini ban’ preventing ostentatious religious dress. France has been victim of a terrible deluge of Islamic terrorist attacks, but even so, to become more like the aggressor – introducing morality police dictating what woman should wear – is not to win against them.