Caricatures Ireland

Martin Rowson of the Guardian just sent me his contribution to Fústar’s nudie Cowen postcard exhibition.

The exhibition is open to everyone. Send us your postcards!

Tags: Brian Cowen, Cartoons, Gordon Brown, art, caricatures, fustar, martin rowson, picturegate by Allan
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Some recent work for a client. I’ve included the roughs.

Tags: Cartoons by Allan
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One of the great things about walking into Galway City is that you never know exactly what might happen…

Tags: Cartoons, Connacht Tribune, Double Vision, Galway, charlie adley by Allan
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I did this caricature for latest newlyweds Una and Ken’s guestbook, scanned it and emailed it off when I got the following email from Una:
“Thanks a million for the picture. The drawings are fantastic, however, there is one minor detail….the cat that we asked you to add to the picture is actually a female cat (I mentioned in my email that her name is “Betty” and we’d like “her” in the picture!) and you have put the cat into a male’s suit!!”

Sometimes the little details pass you by! So exit one cross-dressing cat:

I’ll also have some pics up from the wedding shortly.

Tags: caricatures, guestbooks, weddings by Allan
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(UPDATE: This has been resolved. The T-shirts are once again available from Irish Election via Spreadshirt.
Spreadshirt has outlined its position in the comments below.)

The Picturegate t-shirts went missing this morning from Irish Election’s Spreadshirt shop.

Here’s why:

Hello Allen,

Many thanks for your email.

Unfortunately I have to tell you that we cannot release the motif at this shop.
I know that you are the copyright holder of the specific desigs. But they infringe the personal rights of Mr. Brian Cowen.
According to German law it is not allowed to use pictures of famous persons without permission. This applies to satiric or caricature too.
The use of such designs can lead to very high fines. We hope you understand.

For further questions please don’t hesitate to contact me again.

Best regards

Spreadshirt Service

I really don’t know what to say.

EDIT: Something smells bad here. I’ve just pulled all these images from Spreadshirt’s own shop:

And there’s plenty of a sexual nature too.
I’ve emailed them back for clarification.

Tags: picturegate, t-shirts by Allan
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