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Steve Bell is one of my favourite cartoonists He was certainly my first favourite, and I have talked about how some of my earliest cartooning was tracing his If… strips in The Guardian newspaper over forty years ago And I've been following his career and work since through highs and a couple of lows, including[...]

I'm going to a Steve Bell event on my birthday And it's all ending with a lecture in Satire and Subversion in Catalan Feminist Comic Art That's November in comics in London for you! Sunday, 3rd of November Jan's Comic Club! The Mills, Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow, 10.30-11.30am Join Jan's monthly Comic Club for kids 7+ who love drawing[...]

Steve Bell's new collection of his newspaper strips If… Stands Up is described as "a new satirical extravaganza from one of Britain's best-loved political cartoonists" Best-loved, that is, unless you are on the editorial board of the Guardian newspaper, and then you are ghosted and dumped like yesterday's pixels after forty years. But Steve Bell, who no[...]

Steve Bell has been dropped as a cartoonist by the Guardian newspaper, six months before his current contract is up, over a cartoon he submitted regarding the current Israel/Hamas conflict The cartoon shows Benjamin Netanyahu preparing to cut out the shape of Palestine from his own flesh with a scalpel, albeit very clumsily, as he[...]

Earlier this year, a Labour MP posted in disgust that Steve Bell was being dropped by the Guardian newspaper over accusations of racism and anti-Semitism in his cartoons Which was news to Steve Bell, who has been regular cartoonist at the Guardian since I was a toddler Instead, Bell cited already announced staff cuts at[...]

Steve Bell, 2016 Labour Party Conference Last week, Bleeding Cool reported on former Labour MP Chris Williamson's claims that longstanding political cartoonist Steve Bell had been sacked from the Guardian newspaper because his views were too out of kilter for the newspaper This was picked up by a number of political websites who proceeded to claim[...]

I grew up tracing Steve Bell cartoons His cartoon strip in The Guardian newspaper 'If…' was what I turned to first in the paper my parents bought twice a week Collections at birthdays helped me catch up with what I missed His Margaret Thatcher was my Margaret Thatcher, eventually, his John Major was my John[...]

Mostly in The Guardian, which meant Gary Trudeau and Steve Bell I used to copy, trace Bell constantly, and my Margaret Thatcher is, well, his Margaret Thatcher My John Major was his John Major And everyone's Tony Blair is his Tony Blair. And last night he won for the best political cartoon of the year[...]

Steve Bell uses the classic Charles Atlas comic strip ad to portray Labour Party leader and Leader Of The Opposition, Ed Miliband, at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton for the Guardian newspaper As he says in the video below, "Apologies to Charles Atlas… and the unnamed person who drew the strip!" Unnamed indeed… [...]

Scarfe later apologised saying he was unaware of the day, and both the editor of the paper and publisher Rupert Murdoch have also apologised – a rare event indeed. Stephen Pollard of the Jewish Chronicle and Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell got into it on BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme today Pollard called the cartoon blood[...]

From The Guardian newspaper, celebrated cartoonist Steve Bell's take on Prince Charles being asked him to approve planning and construction laws that might affect the the Duchy Of Cornwall estate (home of Duchy's Original biscuits) that provides an income for him… From The Guardian newspaper, celebrated cartoonist Steve Bell's take on Prince Charles being asked[...]