The future is not bright.....

[Soph0571]

[FreepFryer]

1. That may be the lowest quality (concept & execution) cartoon I have ever seen.

Care to provide your interpretation? It’s a mess.

[Denzil_DC]

2. Rowson's style isn't everybody's cup of tea (it's not mine). He's no Steve Bell.

It might have been a bit clearer in the print version.

It's hard to read all the writing on the objects being carried by the people in the queue, but I think it's the consequences of Brexit turning up at someone's door, the first in line being a Brexivangelist.

[FreepFryer]

3. I also didn't mean to condemn the poster, I came off harsher than intended...

As an American it went over my (somewhat otherwise occupied) noggin big Clay Bennett fan myself.

[Denzil_DC]

4. I'll leave Soph to chime in if she wants!

The background would be that members of Theresa May's cabinet have been dispatched to try to "sell" her deal to the public around the country before next week's vote (if it even happens - I follow politics avidly and try to keep up, but Brexit has me zoning out by this stage).

Since we the public won't even get a say, just MPs, it's hard to see the logic behind this tactic. Cynics suggest it's to keep the cabinet busy so it's harder to plot May's demise ...

I've always been a big cartoon fan, especially political cartoons. At their best, they can cut through all sorts of crap. I love some of your American cartoonists, especially Mike Luckovich.

[T_i_B]

5. This may sound daft...

...but I first became interested in politics and political history through the cartoons of the likes of James Gillray, which depicted the politics of the era of William Pitt the younger and Charles James Fox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gillray

The political cartoons of the 18th century, be it Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson or the Cruikshanks were a lot stronger than the political cartoons of today. Often a lot more obscene and libelous too! And through learning about politics in this manner I found myself leaning towards a very Whiggish political viewpoint which I still have today!

And some of the more famous cartoons of this era are still copied and adapted by political cartoonists today.

[Denzil_DC]

6. It doesn't sound daft to me at all, T_i_B.

Here's an article by Rowson himself about Gillray, which you may have already seen:

Satire, sewers and statesmen: why James Gillray was king of the cartoon: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/21/satire-sewers-and-statesmen-james-gillray-king-of-cartoon

You can certainly see the influence in Rowson's style.