Dave Brown Out at Independent
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Dave Brown, staff cartoonist for the UK’s Independent, has been let go from the newspaper after 30 years.
From Dave Brown’s X/Twitter account:
The final cartoon; after just under 30 years and something over 6,000 cartoons @Independent are letting me go to save a few quid! Thanks to everyone who followed me and for all the kind messages. Ta-ra… for now!
Fittingly Brown’s last cartoon is a part of his Rogues Gallery.
While political cartoonists frequently parody famous artworks, Brown has turned this concept into a full-blown series… Much to his frustration, his art spoofs were only printed from time to time. It wasn’t until he became house cartoonist for The Independent that he saw a new opportunity. He was approached to liven up the paper’s Saturday editions, where, from January 2004 on, his art spoofs have run on a weekly basis under the title ‘Rogues’ Gallery’. His parodies reference modern-day politicians and events.
More about Dave Brown at the University of Kent’s British Cartoon Archives.
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