Crisis? What crisis?
Like an eerie Iranian version of 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!', our team of plucky seamen have finally been handed back by the Iranian authorities.

Surely down to all those government press statements in which Mssrs Blair and Beckett cowed the kidnappers by expressing their 'concern', 'worry' and 'alarm'. Fighting talk indeed.

Anyone for Tennis?
The caricatured carnage continues in glorious technicolour. I've been inundated with answers to the previous entries, so don't be shy - post on my blog if you think you know who it is. Right answer wins a grand prize.

PLUS my book, SWINESEND - Britain's Greatest Public School was published yesterday! So get out there and take advantage of Amazon's mega 40% discount on it now!! Click here for the Amazon page. For every book bought, a poverty-stricken child in the third world is given a hamburger.

Shooting the Messenger
My take on Putin's efforts to keeping dissidents in line
in mother Russia.

And a second helping of dessert. The sandy saga concludes. With a little bit of je ne sais pour soi.

A snowman, a robot, and me. On a desert island. Sounds like a joke, dinnit?Not in this pseudo-philosophical existentialist romp.
Just don't get any sand in your trunks.

Green Gordy takes on the Chelsea Tractors.
"Two cartoons on the budget?!" I hear you cry. Least you're not being short-changed. Arf.

What with Weds' budget announcement, guessing the identity of this wee scottish raj shouldn't prove too taxing...

A sketch from the top deck
The perfect way to liven up an otherwise horrific commute into town on board a no.19 bus.

Another day, another caricature. Any guesses for today's contestant? He's not opposed to the odd bit of bashing (his word, not mine) to oil the cogs of democracy...

Answers on a hyper-inflated postcard.

Caricature Comp - Any guesses?

Answers on an e-card people...

Numero Uno from my new caricature series:
Kele Okereke from BLOC PARTY

A Forecast For the Future.
A little painting self-portrait for y'all to relish of me aged 60. Drink it up.

An Exercise in Style.
Who'd have thought getting from the bed to the front door was such an ordeal? Such was my Sunday.

Family Fortunes
A prospective strip to go with this article on the JC blog about nepotism and in-fighting within the Israeli Cabinet. Scroll down a bit - it's the Feb 16th posting called 'Family Tensions'.

A Financial Services Comic Mashup. (Bet that's the first time those words have ever been lumped together into the same sentence)

Inject humour and cotidian cartoon insight into a financial services website? They said it couldn't be done. They were wrong.

Tony Pan and Hamza Hook

Whilst turning everyone's favourite one-handed convicted hate-criminal into Captain Hook wasn't the most imaginative leap I've ever taken, I think little Tony works quite well as a diminutive little pixie manchild who refuses to grow old. Despite the onset of old grey hairs and crow's feet. Quite ironic for someone who's so obsessed with their legacy really.

With all the glamour, allure and intrigue of the latest Bond film's Casino Royale, Manchester has snatched the right to build a snarling uber-casino away from London's favourite eyesore, the Millennium Dome.

To mark the occasion, I hereby present a sloshed Jowell trying to stump up the ever-increasing (think it was 8 billion squid last check) bill for the 2012 Olympics.

On a gambling tip, I was also unlucky enough to catch Clive Owen's masterful performance in Croupier last night - the most craptacular piece of celluloid since Woody Allen's Match Point. Take Clive's trademark 1000mile stare, sprinkle in some tired cliches about life being a numbers game and add some heroically bad lines like:

-"I'm leaving you"
"That's why I love you...because you're a real man"

and you have only the first inkling of what can only be described as the jackpot of wannabe slick film noir derivative poop. Just as well he was pretty good in Children of Men really. You're better off gambling away your money than renting this turkey.

"Whassis? Two posts in the same day?!" I hear you cry. Yes indeedy. Like a shuffling octogenarian bewilderedly traversing the streamed traffic of the internet superhighway, I've chanced upon quite possible the best site in the world EVER - aside from my very own archburger.com, naturally - and feel the world would be a better place for sharing it.

Tis THE HYPE MACHINE and is a ridiculously amazing gizmo for checking out new bands on t'internet. Just whack the band's name into it and it'll pull out all the mp3 and video content on them that's out there. Gratis. Rejoice!

As a taster, check this here vid out from the magnificent Wagon Christ.
And here be some more pics o' mine for you too. Aren't i kind.

Oooh and lest I forget, a new strip of mine has been posted up at Slow London's site. It's in its very own Slow Toons section here.

39. The Book's Finally Finished!

Though it might look like a tiny online skip from the last posting to this here one, the gap betwixt the two has seen me finally finish the illustrations for that book I mentioned. Amidst a veritable tsunami of tea, pencil rubbings and inky fingers. The book's due out around the start of Summer so you can all mosey on down to the shops then (plug plug). Here are a few more examples to whet your appetites - more political/caricature/strip stuff is to follow shortly.

You'll also notice the whopping orange RSS icon which brings you a mere click away from getting my doodled spam every day via a feed. Deeeelicious. In other news, got my grubby mitts on the new Arcade Fire, Jamie T and Noisettes albums t'other day and they all kick 2006's offerings into the shade. Fave choons from the three are 'Keep the Car Running', 'Sheila' and 'Sister Rosetta (Capture the Spirit)'.

Plus I randomly stumbled across an awesome scandanavian punk rocking outfit (nope, not abba-styled sequined flares) called 'Love is All' who are defo worth a listen. Check em out here

38. St Swinesend's School for Boys
Excuse the radio silence of late - I've been frantically illustrating a book. Gloat gloat. Yup, a whole book, to be published by Grove Atlantic. As opposed to half a book, which might look a little laissez faire, frankly. It's quite a long one too, if my embryonic carpal tunnel syndrome is anything to go by.

It's basically a satire of the jolly catamite chicanery that goes on behind Britain's fine tradition of public schools. Oh how fitting I hear you cry. Thought I'd post the odd highlight up here to tickle those of you feverishly awaiting a new strip of some sort.

I'm also wrestling with getting an RSS feed up on the site to ensure that all doodled delights are delivered instantaneously to your inbox the minute i publish them, so don't forget to click on the Subscribe to Posts [atom] link to the right under the links section and subscribe! In case you were wondering, the chap in the above pic is a 17th century student who's evaded the plague by smoking a cigarette. As if that wasn't patently obvious from the masterful illustration. Tsk.

37. The Grand Finale
The accidental, the point of art, video killed the canvas star - all in the space of an electronic A4 page. Well i never.

37. Part III - the Banker vs. Artist Bloodbath

36. The Role of the Artist Episode II
Can you handle the excitement? Can you?

35. The Role of the Artist
I know, I know, it sounds a little pretentious, but bare with me - it was for the imminent next issue of Meat Magazine (www.meat-mag.com) and is about what the point of all this drawing malarkey actually is. Contribute to the polemic by posting a comment below.

34. Iraq - The Comic
A tentative first stab at a politicomic strip. The story will unfold so bear with me. Any comments or suggestions always welcome.

33. On-site Graphic Journalism
Sketched live and direct at a demo in Trafalgar Square back in November. The victimised group having their booze confiscated were a friendly troupe of euro-hobos. Who all wanted their portrait done.

32. The Eye of the Beholder (Part II)
The nail-biting finale reaches its conclusion

31. The Eye of the Beholder - Part One
Where the time-honoured phrase really comes from.
You heard it here first.

30.A Prestigious Sketch
A photo of Gawdy B today revealed an eerie similarity to his boss, which in light of seeing The Prestige, brought about this little sketch.

29. From Russia With Hate
The Cold War gets kick started over some cold fish in a downtown sushi bar.

28. At the Mid-Term Shooting Alley

27. Rummy Gets the Boot
Even a dishonourable discharge isn't enough to keep the Republic mid-term balloon afloat.

26. The End of Beautiful Partnership
Some saw the coupling as nothing more than an exploitative ploy based on the shady accrual of riches that has only pained those involved. But Rummy seems ok at being kicked out of his iraqi sandbox.

24. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

2 journos at the Daily Flail discuss the latest dirty bomber conviction.

24. Pre-Mid-Term Meltdown Stateside
Now with added closet homosexual republican minor-corrupting/meth-smoking scandals!

23. A Shot in the Dark
Cameron is told to back down by the House of Commons speaker as the Stockwell shooting squad claim another victim.

22. The Reid Goes Fundi-MENTAL

21. Blairface pt. III - With a guest appearance from Messrs Blunkett and Reid.

20. Blairface Pt II

Tony Blairtana meets Lord Levy to discuss -ahem- party donations for peerages.

19. Blairface - Pt.1
The first instalment chronicling Tony Blairtana's struggle to drum up cash for his party.

18. 'Nam Revisited

To go with Bush's recent admission that Iraq is proving to be the new Vietnam, debacle-wise.

Click here to read more

Here's the famous original photo it's based on.

17. You Can't Touch This

The Israeli President sails through the storm of controversy surrounding alleged rape claims by former members of his staff by playing the presidential immunity card.

16. General Dannatt Puts His Head Over the Parapet

15. Kim Jong Il Caricature

14. Veil I Never - Jack Straw Goes Speed Dating

13. Madonna in Malawi

12. Labouring the Conference
A little bit of a late entry this one, mainly because I've been tinkering with the launch of Archburger Illustration,Which you should all check out immediately.

Do it.