Fifty Shades of Earl Grey |
Finally, some good
friends were staying, and returning from a trip to the seaside they commented on
a road sign they’d seen warning of ‘hidden dips’. It’s one of those signs I’d seen hundreds of
times – but never associated with dips of the edible kind. Shortly after another friend told me they’d
seen a very similar ‘hidden dips’ cartoon, again in Private Eye (I think). Warning: commercial plug follows: this is available as a greetings card from the Shop.
I guess that once you've thought of them or seen the gag, all three are fairly obvious. And if you look closely at the professional
political cartoonists, their minds work along similar lines. For example, the little posh boy image
characterises lots of cartoonists’ views of Osborne and Cameron, and most
caricatures of Thatcher were fairly similar.
But from now on – I must get out of the block more quickly…