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    Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell takes us through some of his work at the time of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and shares his views on the decisions made by George Bush and Tony Blair. He explains how he represents the reality of ‘shock and awe’. Cartoons are often seen as a low art form which is generally humorous, says Bell – but much of his Iraq war work is grisly Cartoon: Steve Bell

    Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell takes us through some of his work at the time of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and shares his views on the decisions made by George Bush and Tony Blair. He explains how he represents the reality of ‘shock and awe’. Cartoons are often seen as a low art form which is generally humorous, says Bell – but much of his Iraq war work is grisly

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    It’s partly the simplicity: there’s this kid who has an “omnitrix” on his wrist that means he can turn himself into 10 different types of alien and save the world. But alongside that, there’s his personality: full of bravado, full of himself, so you get comedy in among the action, too. Know what I thought? I thought: “This is the summer blockbuster that I wanted to see when I was nine but I never did.” The team behind the hit cartoon Ben 10 on their boy with a magic watch, and drawing crazy-coloured alien life

    It’s partly the simplicity: there’s this kid who has an “omnitrix” on his wrist that means he can turn himself into 10 different types of alien and save the world. But alongside that, there’s his personality: full of bravado, full of himself, so you get comedy in among the action, too. Know what I thought? I thought: “This is the summer blockbuster that I wanted to see when I was nine but I never did.”

    The team behind the hit cartoon Ben 10 on their boy with a magic watch, and drawing crazy-coloured alien life

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    Photograph: Guardian 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 …

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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 …

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