Pastiche, Parody and Piracy- Chez Duchamp

Another cartoon from the Pastiche, Parody and Piracy exhibition.

Appropriation has long been a tool used in art, and has always been divisive in its understanding and acceptance. The pieces in this exhibition play with other people’s ideas and pre-existing works to showcase a selection of contemporary appropriation in art that is often mischievous, somewhat humorous, and often unsettling. It plays with what the viewer might be comfortable with and questions ideas of authorship and originality.

Pastiche, Parody and Piracy- Morebucks

One of my cartoons at the Pastiche, Parody and Piracy exhibition opening this Thursday at the Cob Gallery, London.

Artist Miriam Elia, Curator Camilla Ellingsen Webster and Cartoonist Jeremy Banx seek to demonstrate the importance of appropriation in art and satire. Appropriation has long been a tool used in art, and has always been divisive in its understanding and acceptance. The pieces in this exhibition play with other people’s ideas and pre-existing works to showcase a selection of contemporary appropriation in art that is often mischievous, somewhat humorous, and often unsettling. It plays with what the viewer might be comfortable with and questions ideas of authorship and originality.

Covert and Out

From this week's edition of the Spectator.
“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”
― Abraham Lincoln

The Grapes Of Math

Today The Grapes Of Math by Alex Bellos is published in the USA by Simon & Schuster. Here's one of the illustrations by The Surreal McCoy.
“Bellos’s book is sprinkled with similarly surprising revelations about familiar mathematical objects ... Bellos has a fantastic knack of making you feel as if you’re sharing a room with these mathematical explorers” – New Scientist
"Another sparkling romp through the world of numbers, with the inimitable Alex Bellos as your friendly, informed, and crystal-clear guide. A brilliant successor to Here's Looking at Euclid."
– Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick, and author of Visions of Infinity

Food For Thought

A cartoon from this month's edition of the Fortean Times.

“I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.”
― Steven Wright

High Flyer

This week's Spectator cartoon.

"I don't want to break the glass ceiling because I know it'll be muggins here who'll have to clean up the mess." Holly Walsh, the News Quiz.

The View From Here

From this week's edition of the Spectator.

"The unexplainable differentiates into unparalleled self-knowledge" From the inestimably fantasmagorical Random Deepak Chopra Quote Generator.


The website explains:
It has been said by some that the thoughts and tweets of Deepak Chopra are indistinguishable from a set of profound sounding words put together in a random order, particularly the tweets tagged with "#cosmisconciousness". Each "quote" is generated from a list of words that can be found in Deepak Chopra's Twitter stream randomly stuck together in a sentence.

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Hair, Teeth...

Another cartoon from this month's Readers Digest.


“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
― Mark Twain

Twitter Ye Not

Another cartoon from this month's Readers Digest.

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
― Anthony G. Oettinger

May Bank Helliday

Just in time for the Bank holiday weekend, a cartoon to bring together the great British traditions of traffic jams and seething resentment. From this week's Spectator.