colour cartoons

The cartoons in this gallery are a selection of general colour cartoons that I have had published in Punch, Private Eye and The Spectator magazines. These images are recent work, designed for the editorial and stock illustration markets. Click on any image to enlarge. Then use the arrows left and right to go through the gallery.

Window cleaners of glass high-rise buildings. “Hey, we’ve already done this one.”
A beautiful country scene. A cynical advertising man is saying, “I just think it’s been badly art directed, that’s all.”
Man with a beer belly standing on the end of a jetty. He has a rope around both his neck and belly. He is about to commit suicide.
Samson holding up planet earth as it is burning
A two part cartoon. Part 1: A man in a city dreams of being on a desert island. Part 2; A man on a desert island dreams of being in a city.
A bird’s eye view of a three storey buidling. The building looks exactly the same as all the others in the street. But, from above, we can see that inside is a small, quaint, thatched cottage.
A five-lane highway, where the right lane leads off a cliff. A sign above that lane reads, ‘Exit from Life’. Some cars drive off that cliff.
Scene of a polluted cityscape. Through the window of a building, we can see a man on an exercycle. Even inside his room, he is wearing a gas mask.
A suburban neighbourhood on the weekend, with everyone cutting grass and trees. One hippy-type man sits in his overgrown yard. A sign on his house hreads ‘Environment Friendly.’
A purple-coloured scene where a man is collecting fallen stars. As he does so, he does not realise that the the stars that he has collected are falling through a hole in the sack that he carries on his back.
A sidewalk scene where a lamp post, man and flower are all drooping over.
A man looks at a statue entitled ‘Discoverer of paranoia’. Inside the walls of the statue we can see the statue of a paranoid man.
A woman puts a coin in a parking meter. Undergound, the devil with a wheelbarrow full of gold, waits to collect the woman’s coin as it falls.
A man on a desert island has cut the few trees on the island, to create an armchair and television set. Through the hollow of the TV he can see the sunset.
An urban scene with a man in a small square, surrounded by blue buildings. The man has a thought bubble, where he sees himself on a desert island.
A spoof of ‘The absinthe drinkers’ by Degas. ‘Their first date was an complete disaster. He was lousy talking about emotions and she was hopeless when they talked about sport.’
A small cyclist in traffic is surrounded by huge trucks. The cyclist is thinking of a lone David, surrounded by large Goliaths.
A farming scene is going on at the top of a series of connected high-rise buildings
A man in a polluted environment reads a large public warning sign, ‘All Farting Stricltly Prohibited’.
A fish swims through a polluted stretch of water. The fish breathes through an aqualung, because the water is so filthy.
The inside of a fur shop. A new customer is about to be attacked by a bear who has camouflaged himself amongst the coats.
Night scene with the illuminated windows of a high-rise building spelling out the words ‘Goodbye Cruel World’. Through another window, we can see the hung silhouette of a man. Two others are nearby, saying; “He was an attention seeker, right to the end.”
A man sits in his kitchen, surrounded by things that are free of harmful things: Additive free, gluten free, chlorine free etc. He wears a T shirt on which is written ‘Guilt Free’.
Moses is about to lead he Israelites through the parted Red Sea. However, he sees a bunch of orange-clad Hare Krishnas coming the other way.
Noah is filling his ark with creatures as the rains start to fall. However, he angrily stops two homosexuals from entering. “Hey, wait a second!”
A blue, night scene at the top of some urban, high-rise buildings. A man is howling, like a dog at a yellow, heart-shaped room.
A polluted scene near factories and a waterway into which effluent discharges. Two people are admiring concorde as it flies overhead. One is saying, “Isn’t progress wonderful?”
Moses is about to lead he Israelities through the red sea. But the parted waves reveal a plethora of waste and metal garbage that blocks their path.
An old car in a scrap yard dreams of being a sexy, souped-up hot rod,
In the kitchen of a vegetarian restaurant, the chef happily tucks into a big, juicy steak.
In a polluted city, a man proudly stands at the door of his tradirtional farm cottage, that sits atop a bland high-rise building.
A man looks at his array of protest T shirts, wondering which one to wear that day.
At night, a man on a cliff top tries to reach even closer to the stars by standing on a chair.
A punk with brightly coloured hair looks in the window of a pet shop. There; he sees a parrot that is coloured the same as his hair.
A prisoner in a cell gazes on a framed picture of a landscape on his wall. The picture has iron bars on it, reminding him of his imprisonment.
A family is having a picnic in a desolate landscape that is filled with yellow smog. The family wear gas masks and umbrellas to protect them. from the bright sun, overhead.
A man in a junkyard composes music. The notes he draws on paper correspond to the black puffs of smoke from a nearby chimneystack
A man and his son, both south american natives, look up at an exotic rainforest. The father says, “One day son, all of this will be hamburgers.”
A red, double-decker London bus is stuck in traffic. Car fumes pollute the air. Inside the bus is a sign, ‘No smoking, Penalty £400’.
Two fish swim in water than is full of discarded, human junk. One fish is saying, “The neighbourhood sure has changed since I was a kid.”
A man sits on a park bench beneath a tree. Both the man and the tree have moss growing on one side of them
In a cold, concrete, urban environment, a small man lifts a paving slab to discover green grass underneath it.
A tramp lies in a hammock that is slung between two poles in a dirty, sad, scrapyard home. In his imagination, he is on a tropical island paradise and the sun is shining brightly on to the waves.
On Easter Island, a man looks through a telescope. He is trying to see the same thing that the Easter Island statues are looking at.
The sun shines brightly in a clear, blue sky. Beneath it is a city, over which is a layer of smog and air pollution. The light from the sun cannot penetrate the smog.
A man on a surfboard is surfing on a fast-flowing effluent pipe.
Two Egyptian mummy-makers are talking. “Personally, I think we use far too much packaging these days.”
A man, crawling across a sweltering desert, sees the remnants of a melted snowman.
Rain clouds hovver over a city of identical, squarish, tower blocks. A square rainbow has formed over the buildings.
A man is on an exercycle in a darkened room. He is cycling with movie projector showing a view of a road and landscape on to a screen in front of him.
A scuba diver with a spear gun is about to shoot a small fish. Behind him, a large swordfish is about to spear him.
In a very polluted town, a boy sits in a decrepit room watching TV. He is amazed to see beautiful, green trees on the TV screen.
A huge combine harvestor is chomping through a rainforest. It extracts money but leaves a trail of pollution behind it.
Ancient stonehenge sitting on a modern, huge, glass, skyscraper and dwarfed by it.
A man in an idylic country scene is chasing his own thought bubble, in which the idylic scene around him is replicated. He dreams of a better world, but he is already there.
A long-haired man is in a hospital bed. He is surrounded by four friends dressed in leathers, a rock guitar and long hair. The man in the bed is saying, “They reckon I’ve got heavy metal poisoning.”
A man heats up a TV dinner over his campfire.
A man stands on an effluent pipes and vomits. His vomit resembles the discharge coming out of the pipe.
Jesus and his disciples are discovering how easy it is to walk on water, when the lake is full of garbage.
A very wrinkled old couple sit on the porch of their house. The woman says, “If we’ve been eating food containing preservatives all our lives, then how come we’re not well preserved?”
A building sits in a landscape where all of the trees have all been cut down and only stumps remain. At one window of the building, a woman pours water on to a windowbox of small, green plants.
There are two yellow light sources in a room. On the left, yellow light comes from a window and four plants lean towards it. On the right, yellow light comes from a computer screen and four people lean towards it.
Two men are crawling across a desert. One is headed towards a polluted city. Another is crawling away from it. The latter is saying, “I wouldn’t if I were you.”
A tree is full of birds in its cranches. Nearby, a cat looks on nastily, as a man approaches rhe tree with a chainsaw.
Two men are in a hospital lung cancer ward. Outside, is a very polluted city. One man is saying. “I don’t understand it. I never smoked a cigarette in my life.”
A man plays a tuba in a yellow, smog-filled environment. The notes coming from his tuba correspond with the smoke coming from nearby factory smokestacks.
A hunter is about to club a baby fox that he has caught in his trap. A group of angry animals have gathered behind him.
A tramp with his knapsack and dog are walking under the moon. Man, dog, knapsack and moon all have patches on them
The pyramids of Cairo are dwarfed by modern, glass high-rise buildings.
A man in an inflatable boat is heading down a polluted, brown, water channel.
A man is in a room. Water is dripping from the ceiling in several places. His tears fall like the raindrops and collect in a bucket at his feet.
A man sits under a leafless tree, A cloud is stuck in the brainches of the tree and rains on him as he cries for his misfortune.
A suicidal man goes to a group of trees to hang himself. But he discovers that all of the trees have been cut down and only stumps remain.
A row of Easter Island statues are wearing gas masks to protect them against the polluted air.
A large tree in a forest glade dreams of the wonderful, classy furniture that it will one day be made into.