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How Kipper Williams has captured the Eurozone crisis in cartoons:

Guardian cartoonist Kipper Williams is having a good eurozone crisis. He aims to capture the ‘tragi-comedy’ of the crisis, with cartoons that are ‘often silly, fanciful but a whisker away from reality’. Tackling yields, credit default swaps and eurobonds in a cartoon isn’t easy, he says, and his aim is to bring the crisis ‘back down to earth’. He has clearly thrived on the twists and turns of the Greek crisis, playing on what he describes as the ‘handy, accessible and familiar’ classical myths and legends. And he has a canny knack of anticipating events, imagining a return to the drachma last June – a fanciful idea at the time but now under serious consideration. Here are some of his best cartoons of the crisis …