royblumenthal's Newest Cartoons

Jacob Zuma Assumes the Position

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Sometime during the course of Friday the 12th of September 2008, Jacob Zuma will learn his fate.

Along with him, South Africa will also learn its fate.

If Zuma has his corruption charges dropped (like his trousers), he will become the next South African president, and the next African despot.

If he faces trial, South Africa gets a brief reprieve from certain calamity. It's brief because the man might still somehow evade justice on some or other technicalities.

This cartoon is based on an idea tweeted to me by Gustav, a Twitter bud. I'm not mentioning his surname, cos his version was a lot less inflammatory. And I simply don't want HIM getting killed by mad Zuma supporters thanks to MY crazy over-the-topness.

The other influence for this cartoon comes from the recent Zapiro editorial cartoon in the Sunday Times in which he shows Zuma getting ready to rape Justice as she is held down by four of his cronies in the ANC and SACP.

Zapiro took some serious heat for that cartoon. I'll take almost no heat, cos I simply don't have the same viewership as he does. Still... I hope this causes at least a slight tremor.

<i>This pic started off as a sketch in my Moleskine notebook, after I interpreted Gustav's Tweeted suggestion. I then scanned it, and brought it into ArtRage 2.5. I coloured and manipulated the pic slightly. All on my overheating Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc.</i>

Pressing on Regardless

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This is one of my 'Roy's Quick Draw' pics for the Moneyweb site. It's about the death of old school journalism as we know it. They will fight to the bitter end, pen in hand. As the digital monster grinds them into old newsprint.

Resource --Wherever I Lay My Mat

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This is another pic from the book for teachers that Jennifer Cosslett and I are making.

This is about creating private space for learners in a busy classroom.

Resource -- Balloon Tests

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This is part of a book Jennifer Cosslett and I are creating together. It's a resource for teachers to make their classrooms more fun, more productive, more powerfully learning-based.

Ideas

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This one comes from a live visual facilitation. Those are all portraits of people who gave talks at an event.

After the gig, I popped them all in a line, grabbed the cheese-moon, and assembled it as a composition.

It expresses something of my commitment to the world of expression of ideas.

Radical Islam -- What a Blast

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A t-shirt idea for suicide bombers.

Foetus Snow Globe

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Be warned. This is as low as humour can go. It's pretty much GUARANTEED to offend. I made this cartoon as a challenge to myself. I asked myself, 'How low can I actually go? Can I transcend all known levels of bad taste? Can I dare?' You be the judge.

Pish Kebabs

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Ever wondered what happens to the little cylinders of skin sliced off during circumcision operations? Yup... foreskins now have a use! Thread them onto a stick and roast them!

Butt Nuggets

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I decided to go as low as I could go in terms of outrageous humour. Betty's Butt Nuggets are offcuts from operations to remove piles. Enjoy the taste sensation!

Filling the Gap

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I drew the linework in my Moleskine while at the dentist, in the dentist's chair. It's a real, live, painfest. (Actually, it wasn't sore. He's a darn good dentist.)

Luxury

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This is my first 'Roy's Quick Draw' for MoneyWebLife (http://moneyweb.co.za). The topic was 'wealth'. And I chose to interpret wealth as a relative term.

Power

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I have a regular slot now producing a cartoon for South Africa's MoneyWebLife (http://moneyweb.co.za). This week's topic was 'Power'. My take on it is that power is a completely choice-0driven force.

MatineeSoup--Fetch

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The continuing adventures of sarcastic star-dog, Bambi. Fetch it yourself.

RoyBlumenthalBizCard

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This is my visual facilitation business card.

I work internationally, and my work is most often requested in situations where conference organisers or meeting hosts would like the content of their sessions remembered by participants.

VisualFacilitation--Nutrition

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I was the visual facilitator at the annual National Speakers Association of Southern Africa Convention 2008. This dude -- Gerrit Bantjes -- is a nutritionist, who works from Britain, optimising performance through the use of correct eating.

VisualFacilitation-AntiHijacking

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Here's an example of some of my visual facilitation work. This was created with a gel ink pen in a small Moleskine notebook over five pages. I scanned them in, combined them, and coloured the entire pic in Photoshop CS2. The talk was given by Richard Brussow, an expert on how South Africans can avoid being hijacked in their vehicles. It was done in my Moleskine because I wasn't formally employed to do a visual facilitation. I simply couldn't resist.

DQ-CoolRunnings

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This is an example of my ruling-pen and ink on paper technique. A ruling pen looks a bit like a gynaecological instrument. But it gives the most amazing control of the line. Almost like a paintbrush.

MatineeSoup--Bambi

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Matinee Soup is a strip featuring a sarcastic dog called Bambi.