Top Marx- a Karl Marx pun

I've been putting aside more greetings cards into my portfolio whenever I think of more puns. This is a congratulatory card design for the leftie

So I started doing some more political cartoons again

Around the American primaries. This one seems a little abstract, I guess, but it's about the two front runners, who seem slightly more similar that one might think- sure, he's republican, she's democrat, he's an 'outsider' she's 'part of the establishment', but neither one of these people would describe themselves as a 'liberal', nor do they understand, coming from millions of dollars in wealth, what the average American goes through.

I'm making more political cartoons

Fingers crossed that I'm successful!

I'm playing around with some subjects, both current and slightly outdated- but that I feel are relevant, like the issue of gun violence in the US, which still needs to be addressed! I also have some old Scottish election cartoons that I have to compile- I'm plodding along, but I'll get there!

So I haven't posted in a while

Which is bad on me, but I HAVE been super busy.

I've decided that I'd quite like to get into political cartooning- hopefully before my bank balance runs out... I've been filling up sheets and sheets of copy paper with roughs of politicians faces )most of which I'm a little too embarrassed to post here), with the hopes of eventually capturing a likeness. I think at this point it's pretty obvious which side of the fence I'm plonked myself, but I still want to be fair in my assessment of the situation- although I have picked a side, all politicians annoy me in different ways (although some more than others). I can't stand papers like a certain tabloid that has popped up since the referendum... but I won't go down that route (it's one for a rant blog I've been meaning to set up). 

 ANYWAY- I emailed Chris Riddell (who has always been one of my absolute favourite illustrators/ political cartoonists), partly because I'm a cheeky little lady who wants every bit of help that she can get, and partly because, why not? I wasn't expecting him to respond (as I'm sure he's extremely busy), but he did! He even offered to look at my work and give me some pointers- I always love that- when someone who is insanely talented is actually a nice person and goes out of their way to help people; there are way too many people in this world who aren't at all like that. But yeah, it makes me feel happy when I find out that I'm a fan of someone who's worth being a fan of :-)