Christmas Cartoon Pick of the Week

The festive season is upon us, so this week Bloghorn has a bulging sack full of Christmas themed cartoons...

One: Simon Bond in Private Eye: 'City Christmas Tree 2008'

Two: From Tony Holland in the Spectator, the credit crunch hits the Twelve Days of Christmas

Three: Christmas tree dressing at Number 10 for Peter Brookes in the Times

Four: Martin Rowson in Tribune shows the Three Wise Men investing poorly

Five: The Guardian asked artists, singers and comedians to "reinvent" Santa Claus, including Gerald Scarfe

Six: Royston Robertson in Reader's Digest on good health at Christmas

Seven: Patrick Blower has a Livedraw animation on media-savvy shepherds

Eight: Will "Wilbur" Dawbarn in Reader's Digest on the season of goodwill in a bad neighbourhood

Nine: Matt "Hack" Buck in Tribune on the non-jingling tills

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Cartoon Pick of the Week

Bloghorn spotted this great work this week...

One: Dave Brown in the Independent on the Pre-budget Report

Two: Peter Brookes in the Times on the Death of New Labour

Three: Paul Wood in the Spectator: "It's pretty chilly out. Do you want to borrow a scarf?"

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Cartoon Pick of the Week

Bloghorn spotted this great work this week...

One: Peter Brookes in the Times on the BNP list

Two: Tim Sanders in The Independent on "I'm a Celebrity..."

Three: Dave Walker at the Church Times Blog on pubs becoming churches

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Victory for Obama: The cartoonists' view

The time difference between the UK and the USA meant that newspapers here were unable to report the victory of Barack Obama the day after the election. So British cartoonists had another day to gather their thoughts, and we saw the results yesterday.

Two cartoonists noted a certain messianic quality in the President Elect. Peter Brookes in The Times came up with a saintly Obama and Matt in the Daily Telegraph wondered if he could work miracles.

Andy Davey in The Sun saw the election as a new dawn and Paul Thomas in the Daily Express also looked at the notion of new hope for America.

A celebratory tone was notable. Steve Bell in The Guardian depicted a slam-dunking Obama and Dave Brown in The Independent showed his ballooning popularity.

Mac in the Daily Mail had Obama beating racism, to make it to the White House while Matt Buck at Channel 4 News noted how that famous address is changed for ever. Nicholas Garland in The Telegraph took an interesting sideways slant, with a quote from Martin Luther King.

Alex Hughes in Tribune looked ahead to the huge challenges faced by the new President and Patrick Blower, on his Livedraw site, had an animated take on this weight of expectation.

It will be fascinating, of course, to see how cartoonists will react once Obama is doing the job of President, when the news stories are not all positive.

Have you seen any other great Obama cartoons in the UK media? Let us know via Comments below

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Cartoon Pick of the Week

Bloghorn spotted this great work this week...

One: Peter Brookes in The Times on gunning for Sarah Palin

Two: Clay Bennett at timesfreepress.com on Barack Obama: a tough act to follow

But enough US elections, already ... Three: Wilbur Dawbarn in Private Eye looks at the the gravity of the situation

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