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International Editorial Cartoons on Cartoon Movement
My Cartoon Movement profile brings together current editorial cartoons on politics, media, public figures and contemporary culture — part of a wider international body of work spanning magazines, newspapers, publishers and commissioned editorial projects.
Current editorial cartoons & visual commentary
Cartoon Movement gives me a place to publish and collect recent work responding to current events, politics, technology, public figures and the oddities of contemporary life.
The subjects change quickly, but the basic challenge stays the same: reduce an idea to a visual premise that can be understood in seconds and still leave a second thought behind.
Sometimes the starting point is political. Sometimes it is linguistic, cultural or behavioural. The strongest cartoons often emerge where a serious subject and an absurd visual idea unexpectedly meet.
Politics, media, public figures & modern absurdity
Recent Cartoon Movement work has included subjects such as:
- Donald Trump examined by animal-headed psychiatric specialists
- Harry and Meghan reinventing themselves in a palace recording studio
- Antony Blinken arriving amid the flames of global diplomacy
- a QAnon believer and a Flat Earther turning dinner into an argument about reality
- a doomsday prepper frightened by everything except losing Wi-Fi
- dragons, aliens and classic cinematic scenes disrupted by digital distraction
The tone ranges from political satire to social observation, but the intention is consistent: find a visual angle that sharpens the idea rather than simply illustrating the news.
A long-running international editorial practice
Editorial cartooning has been part of my work since the beginning of my career, across magazines, newspapers, books and commissioned publishing projects in Europe and the United States.
Over the years, my cartoons and illustrations have appeared in publications including MAD Magazine, The New Yorker, NZZ am Sonntag and a wide range of other editorial titles and publishing projects.
The formats have ranged from single-panel cartoons and caricature to weekly strips, editorial illustration, book illustration and longer visual narratives.
Cartoon Movement is therefore not a separate strand of my work, but a current home for the same kind of visual thinking I have been developing throughout my career.
The idea has to work before the drawing does
Editorial cartooning is fundamentally an ideas discipline.
A beautifully drawn cartoon can still fail if the premise is weak, while a very simple drawing can work perfectly if the visual thought is immediate.
I usually begin with a contradiction, a phrase, a substitution or a collision between two unrelated ideas. Once the concept is clear, the drawing becomes a question of timing, character and how much information can be removed without losing the point.
The best result is often the one that allows the reader to complete the joke rather than spelling everything out.
Drawing, writing & comic timing
My approach has always been influenced as much by writers and cartoonists as by illustrators.
I have long admired artists such as Sempé, Saul Steinberg, Edward Gorey and George Booth, alongside writers including James Thurber and S. J. Perelman.
What interests me in all of them is economy: how a small gesture, a strange sentence or one precisely timed visual detail can carry an entire idea.
Editorial cartooning beyond politics
Political cartoons are an important part of editorial drawing, but the field is much broader than politics alone.
Editorial cartooning can respond to business, technology, media, science, culture, psychology, education or everyday behaviour. The common element is not the subject but the use of a visual idea to comment on it.
That flexibility is also why cartooning overlaps naturally with editorial illustration, caricature, sequential storytelling and commissioned visual commentary.
Cartoons for publishers, magazines & commissioned projects
Alongside self-initiated and publication-led editorial work, I create commissioned cartoons, caricatures and narrative illustrations for publishers, magazines, agencies, organisations and businesses.
Depending on the brief, the work may be a single editorial image, a recurring series, an illustrated article, a comic sequence or a complete visual concept combining writing and drawing.
Other strands of my editorial work
My broader work also includes long-form visual storytelling, book projects, animation and illustrated commentary across print and digital media.
I was the first official Google Doodle artist in 2000–2001 and later created the graphic novel Marvin: Based on the Way I Was, about composer Marvin Hamlisch.
These projects are very different in format, but they share the same interest in character, narrative and the relationship between image and idea.
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