Editorial Cartoonist Ian Marsden Joins Cartoon Movement
Cartoonist Ian David Marsden joins Cartoon Movement, the global hub for editorial cartoons, satire, and political illustration. A long-time contributor to international publications, Marsden now shares his work with a global audience through this respected platform.
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From the Absurd to the Insightful: Recent Cartoons
Recent works include:
- Trump assessed by animal-headed psychiatric aides
- Harry and Meghan rebranding in a palace recording studio
- Antony Blinken confronting flaming global diplomacy at an airport
- A QAnon believer and a Flat Earther derail dinner
- Doomsday prepper fearful of everything except lost WiFi
- Dragons, aliens, and a digitally distracted Casablanca
Long Career in Editorial Illustration
I sold my first cartoons at 16 to the legendary Swiss satire magazine Nebelspalter, making my debut as a Swiss cartoonist in the world of editorial illustration. My work was also published in Penthouse Germany—leading my father to tell his friends: “My son is drawing cartoons for a magazine he’s not allowed to buy yet.”
Since then, I’ve contributed to Mad Magazine, The New Yorker, and appeared in a wide range of editorial publications and campaigns across Europe and the U.S. My illustrations continue to appear in both Swiss and German-language media, including satirical outlets and news commentary formats often associated with cartoons Deutschland. I was also a regular editorial illustrator for NZZ am Sonntag for over a decade.
In addition to press work, I’ve created business comics and narrative illustrations for major German clients such as Seele, Mercedes-Benz, Digades, Stadtwerke Wedel, and Dräger. These projects range from internal communication tools to brand storytelling—proof that hand-drawn cartoons can convey complex ideas with clarity, emotion, and impact.
I was the first Google Doodle artist, and I’m the author of the graphic novel Marvin: Based on the Way I Was, about the life of composer Marvin Hamlisch. My style draws on the influence of Sempé, Saul Steinberg, Edward Gorey, Booth, and the writings of James Thurber and S.J. Perelman.
Whether the theme is politics, business, media, or modern culture, I aim to capture the absurd and the sincere with a line that’s unmistakably human. Always hand-drawn. No filters. No shortcuts.
