Martin Rowson

British satirist and cartoonist Martin Rowson's acerbic chronicles of the evolution—or rather, regression—of politics in the last two decades. In 1997, on top of his regular visual contributions to the Tribune, Martin Rowson—the veteran mouthpiece of the Left of the British Labour Party—started writing a monthly column in the paper's "As I Please" section, which was George Orwell's slot fifty...

Hans Holbein's 16th-century masterpiece, The Dance of Death, reminds its readers that no one, no matter their rank or position, can escape the great leveller, Death. In a foreboding series of woodcuts, Death, depicted as a skeleton, intrudes on the lives of people from every level of society, from the sailor to the judge, the ploughman to the king. By...

Since 2010, Martin Rowson has been documenting the highs and lows—mainly the lows—of the Tory-Lib Dem coalition week after week in The Guardian, as well as in The Morning Star, Tribune, and many other publications. This book collects Rowson's best, most brutally funny cartoons from a period that began with a "big, open, comprehensive offer" to Nick Clegg, continued on...

Every year will see one po-faced carol converted line-by-line into festive silliness, filth and fun, the kind of bawdy humour that puts the bang into a Christmas cracker. Imagine them as seasonal alternatives to Roald Dahl's brilliantly iconoclastic Revolting Rhymes; each packaged as small, full-colour hardbacks and each designed to tweak the noses of those who take their Christmases far...