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Final Steve Bell instalment

July 3rd, 2008 No Comments

For completeness’ sake, the last part of this week’s If… strip from the Guardian.
By the way, I’m posting this after the Ray Lewis stuff broke but tricking the blog into putting it earlier, so don’t think you’ve gone mad and not noticed this post being here before this evening: it wasn’t.

© Steve Bell 2008
While that’s [...]

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Steve Bell again: Hail margaret!

July 2nd, 2008 1 Comment

The penultimate instalment of this week’s Boris-based If… cartoon strip from the Guardian. Today’s is called Hail Margaret!

© Steve Bell 2008
Boris changing his views based on what his Tory puppeteers tell him to believe? Surely not.
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Steve Bell’s Boggleratis!

July 1st, 2008 No Comments

Thanks to Tom in the comments, I learn that Steve Bell’s If… cartoon strip hasn’t been taken off the Guardian site – far from it! It now has a new, improved home on the site.
So from there, I present today’s instalment of this week’s Borisfest, which the new site tells me has the title Boggleratis!

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Does Steve Bell read Boris Watch?

June 30th, 2008 4 Comments

He’s certainly keeping a close eye on Boris’s actions. Here’s today’s cartoon from the back of G2 (excuse it being a low-quality photo: the Guardian haven’t updated Steve Bell’s page since 4 June, and my scanner’s not working):
 
Boris’s withdrawal of London from Mayors for Peace wasn’t very widely reported as far as I’m aware, so [...]

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