Copyright? What that?

Painfully copied by hand in Photoshop.

Some facts can’t be worked into the final cartoon

Did you know that, depending on how you pay for it, the booking fee for some of the International Arts Festival shows is higher than the entire ticket cost of some of the Fringe Festival shows?

Get Pissed in Public and Wear a Slutty/Stupid Costume Day.

I suppose I should’ve done one about the Sevens, but I don’t really have anything positive to say about Wellington’s annual Get Pissed in Public and Wear a Slutty/Stupid Costume Day.

The Return of Mapplethorpe

Well, why not?

Study in yellow

Missing?

There’s a long gap between issues of Capital Times over the Christmas break. I was asked to draw a Jitterati for the January 4th issue, but acording to the cover of the last published issue, the next issue is out on January 18th. By then, this cartoon won’t exactly be topical, so here it is now:

An unambiguous statement of principle

Alternative Jitteratis for this week

JAIMEE: What did you learn this year, Tony?
TONY: Absolutely nothing. I intend to make the same mistakes next year and assume that someone else will pay for them further down the line. I’m going to put off hard decisions, ignore every warning sign, and pander to the rich on the assumption that whatever’s good for them is good for the rest of the country.
JAIMEE: Well, I admire your candour.
TONY: Did you know that poor people are just lazy?

(G.B. Trudeau put this much better in Doonesbury (from memory) with a panel showing Reagan exclaiming “See? I knew poverty was anecdotal!”)

JAIMEE: You know, I must be the only person in Wellington who hasn’t seen The Adventures of Tintin yet.
TONY: But it doesn’t come out until next week!
JAIMEE: Yes, yes, but what with all the Weta screenings and the sneak previews and the internet, it was almost impossible to avoid it!
(Jaimee contemplates this for a panel)
JAIMEE: I could have worse problems.

Apologies to all Masters of Information Studies

I don’t usually post the punchline, but I like this one. The background is the new Deluxe bar inside the Embassy Theatre.

When in doubt: one huge panel

 

This one was an absolute bugger to produce. I’ve been out of the country since Thursday, and you know what? New Zealand doesn’t crop up in Australian news much. There was something about the cricket, but that was it. After seven hours of travel, I spent the afternoon catching up on the news, which seemed to consist of the earthquake on Saturday, the launch next Wednesday of the new Lightbox exhibition, and people who are outraged that National are starting to do exactly what anyone with half a brain would expect them to do.

Eventually I stopped reading and started waiting, hoping that something interesting would just happen before the deadline. This was not to be, so I just drew one about the orcas in the harbour.