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Draws for Private Eye, The Spectator, The Critic etc, plus businesses, cards, books, live work etc 💬 Direct message or email [email protected] for commissions linktr.ee/roystoncartoons

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · Nov 9

I appeared on BBC Politics South East talking about political cartoons. Report by Marcella Whittingdale. Filmed by Dave Painter. Also featuring the Herne Bay Cartoon Festival and Beth Astridge from the British Cartoon Archive in Canterbury.

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Cartoonist Royston Robertson on BBC Politics South East

YouTube video by Royston Robertson

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Got a hat-trick of cartoons in the new Private Eye and they're about some real #Halloween horrors: Frankenstein, Boris Johnson and [shudders] Reform UK.

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · 4d

Farmer's wife asks him "Did you remember to put the cockerel back one hour?"

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · 7d

House of Guinness cartoon in Private Eye. I haven't actually seen it, I just saw a trailer and wondered why it wasn't called Peaky Blind Drunk. #Netflix

Couple come across House of Guinness on TV. Bloke says "Pub?"

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · 8d

I drew the chapter heading cartoons for "The Times: Sir, The year in letters" again this year. In shops now.

#letters #bookillustrator #bookillustrations

Cover of "The Times: Sir, The year in letters"

Modern Manners chapter heading cartoon from "The Times: Sir, The year in letters"

World of Work chapter heading cartoon from "The Times: Sir, The year in letters"

Inside back flap from "The Times: Sir, The year in letters", crediting Royston as illustrator

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · 13d

Do you have a link?

Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · 14d

I know we all hate "Christmas creep" but if M&S can sell Boxing Day curry wraps in mid-October, I think I can plug the fact that I did one of this year's festive Private Eye cards.

Magazine ad for Private Eye Christmas cards

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 15d

Trump’s Gaza Triumph

The new Private Eye is out now.

A photo of the front cover of issue 1660 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "on shelves now." The front cover headline reads “Trump’s Gaza Triumph” and features a photo of Donald Trump with multiple speech bubbles saying “You’ve got to hand it to me,” “What, all of it?”, “The only people making a bomb from now on will be my family,” “Anyone want a peace of the action?”, “In God we Trump!” and “Halo to the Chief!” A banner at the bottom reads “Late news: World apologises ‘He’s not a naughty boy, he’s the Messiah.’”

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · 21d

I don't think he's targeting overseas cartoonists yet, although Hitler is known to have had at least one on a list, so you never know!

Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks for the warning, pls credit roystoncartoons.com

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · 22d

Cartoon from Private Eye about the orange idiot.

Sign on GP Surgery door says "Thank you for not consulting Google, social media or the US president"

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · 24d

At this time of year I draw bespoke Christmas cards for all kinds of companies and individuals. If you want one, DM me with details. #Christmas #cards #companyChristmasCards #bespokeChristmascards #personalChristmascards

Card by Royston for a waste management company, depicting Santa and elves using a recycling picking line to sort Christmas presents.

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · 26d

Old Private Eye cartoon about rebranding the Met Police that never goes out of date.

Woman says to police officers: "A quick win would be to rearrange the letters to better reflect the organisation." The words METROPOLITAN POLICE have been rearranged to say POTENTIAL CRIME POOL.

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · Sep 28

Spent an enjoyable weekend doing live drawing for @drawnalism.com at the @odcamp.uk conference. Here's my coverage of a discussion on the "300 Seconds" method of public speaking. #odcamp

Page of live drawing by Royston, for Drawnalism.com, at the Open Data Camp conference,. on the subject of public speaking.

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · Sep 28

Thanks, Ian. It was a great line!

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Ian Watt @watty62.bsky.social · Sep 27

Proud to be the originator of "Open Charlatans Register" at Open Data Camp (@odcamp.uk) today.

Brilliantly captured here by @drawnalism.com's Royston!

A sketch note of an unconference session portraying 'Tackling the Malaise" and portraying a man on a shrinks couch, Donald Trump, a Flying V guitar and much more.

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · Sep 27

I'm sure you're right. It was just a joke though.

Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · Sep 26

Podcasts cartoon in Private Eye. Available wherever you get your magazines.

Man wearing earphones attached to phone says to woman "Sorry, can't talk -- too many podcasts to get through"

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The New Cartoonist @thenewcartoonist.bsky.social · Sep 26

The new issue is out! With the brilliant @roystoncartoons.bsky.social on the cover, an Interview with @privateeyenews.bsky.social @adammacqueen.bsky.social @chicanepictures.bsky.social on Schulz, @martinrowson.bsky.social meeting David Rowe loads of toons. Go grab a copy! issuu.com/thenewcartoo...

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · Sep 19

Wow, that is pretty crazy 😯

Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · Sep 19

Happy tenth birthday to one of my personal favourite cartoon's. (One for the pedant's!)

Greengrocer signs indicate Tomato's, Cucumber's and Apostrophe's

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · Aug 23

"Hello and welcome to my livescream."

From the new @newhumanist.bsky.social

Pastiche of Munch's The Scream, he holds up smartphone and talks into it, saying: "Hello and welcome to my livescream. "

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · Aug 11

Yes, originally from online magazine The Highly.

Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · Aug 11

I'd be interested. Feel free to DM me.

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Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · Aug 8

As Rupert Lowe MP is back in the news, having mistaken charity rowers for illegal migrants, here's an old cartoon about this lowest of the low politician.

Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · Mar 14

From the current issue of The Spectator.

Cartoon of man and woman. He holds newspaper that says "REFORM MP 'BULLIED WOMEN'". Woman says "They've reached a new Lowe."

Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social · Aug 8

The characters in my Broadstairs Folk Week cartoon in the current Broadstairs Beacon are loosely based on people I sketched at the festival's Hobby Horse kids' club back in 2009.

And for those asking, the cartoon was drawn before the recent youth antisocial behaviour in the town 😅

Kids in Viking Bay, Broadstairs, bury a reluctant Folk Week hobby horse in the sand. A passing folkie says: "It's good to see young people getting involved with Folk Week"

Four characters sketched live at Broadstairs Folk Week in 2009: The drummer, the squeeze box player, the caller and Clarence, the friendly dragon