James Mellor
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Award-winning #Cartoonist - Private Eye, Spectator, Critic, & Sunday Telegraph | Coy of Entrepreneurs' Hon. Historian | Quins fan | Husband | Father | ن
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Happy 60th Birthday,
@PrivateEyeNews
.
I've been a reader since I was a teenager (initially purely for the cartoons; nowerdays primarily for the cartoons) so am genuinely thrilled that my own work has appeared in the mag in the past couple of years. Thank you.
Some favourites:
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One of my cartoons from the previous Private Eye. One I'm rather fond of, as it happens.
I'm happy to also have a couple in the new edition - out today!
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SNP Depute leader Keith Brown says SNP MSPs agreed at their meeting today to send flowers to Nicola Sturgeon
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Penny Mordaunt in the news. Seems an appropriate opportunity to revisit my recent cartoon from
@PrivateEyeNews
.
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A
#cartoon
of mine in the current Private Eye. One of my favourite things I've had published, as it happens (if one is allowed to have such thoughts about one's own work).
#boardgames
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'All muskets must be stowed in the overhead compartments'
#TrumpParadeFail
#RevolutionaryWarAirport
#Cartoon
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Adrian Dunbar is trending. A good enough excuse to repost this
#cartoon
of mine from
@PrivateEyeNews
in 2021.
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Happy Christmas to all the tiny twitter people that live in my phone.
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Due to ongoing industrial action, the 3:10 to Yuma has been cancelled - a replacement bus service is in operation.
#MakeAFilmBritish
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On a new Private Eye day, here's one of my cartoons from the previous issue:
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Blimey. It's been a year since I drew this
#cartoon
about how the situation in
#Wuhan
probably wasn't as rosy as the authorities said.
It appeared in
@PrivateEyeNews
the next week and went on to the UK Political Cartoon Awards at the end of 2020.
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Seems apt to repost this one.
French far right makes big gains in first round of high-stakes election, exit polls suggest
Follow live
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There was a positive response to last week's 'Bear Hunt'
#cartoon
so, given Saturday's heroics, it seemed appropriate to draw another for this week's
#GallagherPremFinal
. What a journey!
#coyq
#quins
#rugby
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@holland_tom
Twitter serving its customary purpose as a reverse weathervane for public opinion.
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@noclador
They aren't knocked out, they're just taking part in a special road-blocking operation.
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NAPOLEON has just arrived in Spain. What could possibly go wrong?
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A cartoon of mine that sadly didn't make this Private Eye. Fear not - an equally summery one of mine did. Out today.
Looking for a rundown of brat summer? An explainer of brat summer? Did Ed Davey have a brat summer?
All answers revealed soon (as well as world-class investigative journalism) because... IT'S PRIVATE EYE WEEK!
New edition in shops and with subscribers from Wednesday.
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I still think that, rather than a trip to Kyiv and a press conference, a better way to announce the lifting of restrictions on ATACMS would have been to blow up lots of distant Russian things with them.
So, we seem to be moving to a long-belated U.S. decision to lift the ban on the Ukrainian use of ATACMS missiles on targets deep in Russian territory.
This is what is expected to be voiced today by Secretary Blinken, who has been confirmed to have arrived in Kyiv today along
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How's that Smith/Dombrandt bromance coming along?
a) nascent
b) burgeoning
c) finger licking good
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Delighted to have won the Gag Cartoon of the Year 2023 Award (named after the late, great
@tonyhusband1
) at the
@EllwoodAtfield
Political Cartoon Awards last night. 🏆
Many thanks to all who voted and congratulations to all the other winners.
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Heading towards the year's end again, so I've put together some favourite bits. Primarily an exercise for my own morale, but there'll be some of the best received
#cartoons
too.
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Pleased to have a
#cartoon
in the new edition of
@PrivateEyeNews
that's out today.
As you track it down, here's one of mine from the last issue - some long-forgotten figure from a previous era making his exit.
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A new Private Eye Magazine is in shops now. Here's one of my cartoons from the previous issue.
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Pleased to have a couple of
#cartoons
in the new Private Eye out today.
Here's one of mine from the previous issue.
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From winning top try scorer of the 22/23
@premrugby
season to winning hearts and minds at
#Eurovision2023
- what a year for Cadan Murley!
#COYQ
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My cartoon in the latest Private Eye, drawn for
@mcribbHistory
and all the other Napoleonic historians who've sat through the new film about the little corsican fella.
Of course there were dinosaurs at the Battle of the Pyramids. From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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HundreDacre Wood.
#drawdacre
Not really sure what I'm doing here. Not sure if Dacre is even pronounced to rhyme with acre. Still, it's the most effort I'm prepared to put in at the busiest time of year.
@MartinRowson
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@s8mb
The calzone. Invented in Naples but improved in England by filling it with swede and banishing it underground in a mine.
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@UAWeapons
A very expensive intentional decoy, or a missile that became a decoy accidentally after someone flogged the warhead?
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@Noahpinion
@portraitinflesh
"We attack tomorrow under cover of daylight. It's the last thing they'll be expecting - a daylight charge over the minefield"
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The festival weekend's sunburn may have faded from my neck, but the
@HBCartoonFest
'rock the boat' exhibition continues until 15th August - still plenty of time for a visit.
Here's one of mine gracing the walls at
@BeachCreative
.
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Big tea party at The Stoop tomorrow. My latest
#cartoon
for
@QuinssaRugby
&
@Harlequins
.
#NationalTeaDay
#Rugby
#COYQ
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Felt appropriate to add another
#cartoon
to the series following Saturday's incredible final. It was a season of rebirth, so... Part III: A
#Harlequins
Renaissance.
#Champions
#coyq
#art
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Four Seasons Total Inaugurating.
#Cartoon
for
@Cartoonmuseumuk
&
@MartinRowson
's
#DrawTheInauguration
challenge.
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My
#cartoon
in the current Private Eye Magazine. Pleased to say I've another in the new issue out tomorrow.
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One of my
#cartoons
from the
@procartoonists
#Theatre
exhibition.
We're into the home straight now - last day tomorrow!
All artwork is available to buy @ CharingX Library (next to The Garrick Theatre).
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@DarthPutinKGB
Intercepting the drone was the easy bit. The tricky part was greasing up Big Lad and squeezing him into a cockpit.
#BIGgles
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On
#Harlequins
Rugby Fans, over at 'the other place', I'm pleased to report my cartoon of the wider
#Quins
community won the public vote for the inaugural cover competition.
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Reliably informed that my
#Quins
#cartoon
set from 2021 now hangs in the most famous
#rugby
pub in the world, the
@CabbagePatchPub
Twickenham. Quite a proud moment!
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Makes me think of
@marcusbrig
's Giles Wemmbley Hogg playing 'above ground tag' in a Vietnamese cemetery.
If you miss, son, you’ll have a squeaky voice.
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Sean Bean's birthday today. Seen the 'bastard' compilation and lots of screen-death montages being shared around so, instead, here's a
#cartoon
of him kicking a fenchman in the groin.
#Sharpe
#HistoricalFiction
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Frighteningly detailed.
NEW: Boris Johnson drew up detailed plans for a special forces raid on a vaccine plant in Holland to recover Covid jabs ‘kidnapped’ by the EU - before finally deciding it would be ‘nuts’ to invade a Nato ally... via
@MailOnline
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As we bid farewell to summer, a
#cartoon
of mine that appeared in the holiday edition of
@TheCriticMag
.
#Travel
#Explorer
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Final act of the
@procartoonists
#Theatre
exhibition today.
- Forgot to mention that each day of the show a real life
#cartoonist
is kept in the CharingX Library basement enclosure. You can speak to them but don't touch or feed.
Last chance this afternoon!
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Away for the Bank Holiday & back to work today, so a slightly late
#DogloonDay
cartoon.
#animalooncollective
@animaloonies
#history
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