Chicken Tikka Massala
Chicken Tikka Massala, another cartoon from the Connacht Tribune. I think Charlie was claiming Chicken Tikka Massala was a British invention!
Chicken Tikka Massala, another cartoon from the Connacht Tribune. I think Charlie was claiming Chicken Tikka Massala was a British invention!
…or is about to! Mayor of Galway Niall O’Brolchain gets a caricature makeover at the Mayor’s Youth Conference today.
Photo courtesy of Aengus McMahon.

You may very well have come across these before (I know I did somewhere) but I’ve just rediscovered the comic brilliance of Jessica Hagy on Indexed.
Sometimes there is an inverse correlation between how funny your gag is and the number of lines needed to illustrate it.
Jessica uses very few lines.

“But now the Law has moved in, and once again absurdity has sewn its seed and taken root on the pitch at Stamford Bridge.”
I winced when I saw this cartoon on Cagle’s Cartoon Index because it was followed immediately by 
This is exactly what every editorial cartoonist lives in fear of: that someone, somewhere, has had the same idea as you. If anything drives a cartoonist it is to be distinct by virtue of originality. This is an example of convergence.