Martin Rowson Apologises as Guardian Cartoon Labelled Anti-Semitic guardian martinrowson
On Saturday 29th April 2023 The Guardian published a cartoon of mine about Richard Sharp's resignation as Chairman of the BBC, the top news item the previous day. The main focus of the cartoon was Boris Johnson sitting naked on top of a dungheap holding bags full of dollars, with various wheeliebins around its base, labelled"Patrons","Friends","Families" and so on.
And this is where things started going wrong. The portrayal of Sharp takes up 3% of the overall image. I was trying to draw him looking silently furious, by implication with Johnson, in the standard caricatural way common to all political cartoons of exaggerating various of his features . I thought, at the time, it was a fairly mild caricature compared with how I'd draw Johnson.
Satirists, even though largely licenced to speak the unspeakable in liberal democracies, are no more immune to f-cking things up than anyone else, which is what I did here. I know Richard Sharp is Jewish; actually, while we're collecting networks of croneyism, I was at school with him, though I doubt he remembers me.
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