Ideas graveyard #1 · 26 January 2008
When I’m doing my political/editorial cartoons, I’ll rough up to half a dozen ideas each time depending on the topic.
Often none of these ideas end up making it past a quick scribble in a notepad, (and nor should they; some of them are god awful) but others get dropped for one reason or another, and never see the light of day, or ‘the dark of print’, as it were.
So this year I’ll post some of the ones that never got published, and I’ll explain why. Usually, it’ll be immediately apparent.
Here’s one from late November last year that got dropped in favour of a cartoon about federal treasurer Peter Costello spitting the dummy and rejecting the leadership offer before announcing his retirement.
(The context of this toon was that after a landslide victory to the Rudd Labor government, the victory was sweetened with the Prime Minister, John Howard losing his seat of Bennelong to ALP newcomer (and Ex-ABC journalist) Maxine McKew.
