An auction of Martin Rowson’s Stripsearch

cartoons

Free Word Centre8th November 6:30pm

What New Labour did for free speech – May 2007

Cyberspeech – November 2007

2009 Year in review – November 2009

Defining Obscenity – February 2009

The Art Issue – October 2011

Filling the silence (1) – April 2002

Filling the silence (2) – April 2002

The Lying Game – April 2004

Dark Matter – November 2011

Privacy is Dead! – June 2011

Reinventing Russia – November 2005

Shark and Chips

Cartoon Index

1. Tony Blair discusses his prime ministerial career with a Dorian Gray-style portrait in the attic of Number 10. The portrait reminds him of the mistakes he’s made, resulting in Blair punching the portrait, revealing his true self.

2. A jihadi attempts to set up a website, but falls foul of a technical problem. Whilst waiting for technical support, the jihadi tries on a suicide bomb for size, and resorts to turning the computer off and on...

3. Several small-time tweeters make a lot of noise. As big birds try their hand at tweeting their views, throwing their weight around, attempting to make their voice louder than that of the smaller parties, each time they are overthrown by the masses.

4. Foreign correspondent Fi Twinge receives praise for her grisly news coverage, with her producer commending her close-ups of spattered body parts, fly-blown dead babies and killer explosions. But the coverage is quickly deemed as obscene as the language of a recent air-strike victim turns colourful.

5. Whilst queuing to see the world’s most famous painting, our subject is almost trampled by censors, who wish to ensure the safety and protection of visitors from subliminal attacks on morality, indecency and obscenity. But the harmless image has been censored for purposes of “protection.”

6. (and 7) A set of three postcard cartoons from a series of 11 to celebrate Index’s 30th anniversary. The series depicts “whinging” and “smartarsed” dissidents from 30 years ago, through to 30 billion years ago, and to 30 years hence.

8. A man, unsatisfied with what is presented to him on the news, goes in search of the truth. Ignoring billboards, newspapers, television sets and churches offering the truth, the man heads to a truth shop, but when he cracks open the truth, he finds it wasn’t what he had hoped for.

9. A scientist rails against a freedom of information request for his research – wondering how he can ever get any pure science done with this endless scrutiny. We will all end up living in caves again without the capacity of science, he shouts. A three-headed mouse in the scientist’s laboratory says he couldn’t possibly comment as a trademarked patented entity.

10.Superman takes out a super-injunction to prevent the news spreading of a romantic encounter in his private life. The injunction is granted, but is superfluous, and news of Superman’s less than super talents gets out.

11.Evidence of incitement to religious hatred stems through a police wiretap of higher levels, as Greek , African and Roman gods, atheists, Vikings and Egyptians, argue about which religions they hate. When the police officer relays the information to his superior, he’s warned to leave well alone. The racial and religious hatred bill was making its way through Parliament in 2005.

12.One of a series of suppressed cartoons featuring famous works of art by the Britart generation.

Cartoon Index (cont)

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