So, what all this means is that it's FINALLY time to announce the runners-up & WINNER of the Great #DrawMichaelGove Challenge (though you can see all the entries here ). Interesting challenge this, and proof that *looking* like a fucking cartoon doesn't...
...always mean it's easy to draw one of you. It took me years to capture @Ed_Miliband, for instance, as I didn't know where to start and where to finish. Thus it is with the appalling Barbarella of Betrayal that is @michaelgove. You'd think he'd be a doddle, but *truly* to...
...capture the essence of what he has instead of a soul is much much harder than you'd imagine. Took me a long time back in 2010 to work out that if you put his eyes a micron too close together, suddenly the likeness is lost. So, of the 100s of entries, not many of you managed...
..to pin the slippery bugger down. No shame in that, and our purpose here is, always, to educate as well as entertain: as yer man Ruskin observed, drawing isn't about drawing, it's about LOOKING. Anyway, in my judgement (which is final, so there), these 28 entries got closest
A special mention, as ever, to the tourettic typographhical conceits of @SwissRich71, who consistently enters the same joke every challenge. This is the heart of Comedy & I salute you!
To get to actual caricature, I'm pleased to see some of the scatology we saw back right at the beginning, with @DrawMattHancock, is back. Thanks to @JohnLeBrocq & a little zoomorphic joy from @MShepperson, plus @Songicartoons evoking the Gove unblocking loo with hoover story
To get to actual caricature, I'm pleased to see some of the scatology we saw back right at the beginning, with @DrawMattHancock, is back. Thanks to @JohnLeBrocq & a little zoomorphic joy from @MShepperson, plus @Songicartoons evoking the Gove unblocking loo with hoover story
To get to actual caricature, I'm pleased to see some of the scatology we saw back right at the beginning, with @DrawMattHancock, is back. Thanks to @JohnLeBrocq & a little zoomorphic joy from @MShepperson, plus @Songicartoons evoking the Gove unblocking loo with hoover story
To get to actual caricature, I'm pleased to see some of the scatology we saw back right at the beginning, with @DrawMattHancock, is back. Thanks to @JohnLeBrocq & a little zoomorphic joy from @MShepperson, plus @Songicartoons evoking the Gove unblocking loo with hoover story
On the same theme - as this is Fun for All The Family - here's this lovely thing from the unnamed 8 year old in @k8tielou78's life; @nickymonkey's vision of Gove as forensic evidence; @davidsjanes's Naked Mole Rat Govehead & @MagwitchC's Govid virus (dead topical!)
On the same theme - as this is Fun for All The Family - here's this lovely thing from the unnamed 8 year old in @k8tielou78's life; @nickymonkey's vision of Gove as forensic evidence; @davidsjanes's Naked Mole Rat Govehead & @MagwitchC's Govid virus (dead topical!)
On the same theme - as this is Fun for All The Family - here's this lovely thing from the unnamed 8 year old in @k8tielou78's life; @nickymonkey's vision of Gove as forensic evidence; @davidsjanes's Naked Mole Rat Govehead & @MagwitchC's Govid virus (dead topical!)
On the same theme - as this is Fun for All The Family - here's this lovely thing from the unnamed 8 year old in @k8tielou78's life; @nickymonkey's vision of Gove as forensic evidence; @davidsjanes's Naked Mole Rat Govehead & @MagwitchC's Govid virus (dead topical!)
On the same theme - as this is Fun for All The Family - here's this lovely thing from the unnamed 8 year old in @k8tielou78's life; @nickymonkey's vision of Gove as forensic evidence; @davidsjanes's Naked Mole Rat Govehead & @MagwitchC's Govid virus (dead topical!)
I also loved this from @Russel_Herneman - a good, proper, beautifully wrought satirical trope, and funny too; likewise, @NiciGregory's Quentin Blake-ish Gove made me laugh, as did @StuDrawings' entry, which almost makes Gove look cute. @iancartoons' one doesn't though
I also loved this from @Russel_Herneman - a good, proper, beautifully wrought satirical trope, and funny too; likewise, @NiciGregory's Quentin Blake-ish Gove made me laugh, as did @StuDrawings' entry, which almost makes Gove look cute. @iancartoons' one doesn't though
I also loved this from @Russel_Herneman - a good, proper, beautifully wrought satirical trope, and funny too; likewise, @NiciGregory's Quentin Blake-ish Gove made me laugh, as did @StuDrawings' entry, which almost makes Gove look cute. @iancartoons' one doesn't though
I also loved this from @Russel_Herneman - a good, proper, beautifully wrought satirical trope, and funny too; likewise, @NiciGregory's Quentin Blake-ish Gove made me laugh, as did @StuDrawings' entry, which almost makes Gove look cute. @iancartoons' one doesn't though
I also loved this from @Russel_Herneman - a good, proper, beautifully wrought satirical trope, and funny too; likewise, @NiciGregory's Quentin Blake-ish Gove made me laugh, as did @StuDrawings' entry, which almost makes Gove look cute. @iancartoons' one doesn't though
Also doing a good proper old school polcartoon is @StickyDrawer, shamelessly ripping off Fuseli, as EVERYONE has since Gillray & Rowlandson (literally); @esesmomondnd riffs nicely on shapeshifting Gove into a squidgey bollock; @Acerte1 gives us some rather cuddling childkilling
Also doing a good proper old school polcartoon is @StickyDrawer, shamelessly ripping off Fuseli, as EVERYONE has since Gillray & Rowlandson (literally); @esesmomondnd riffs nicely on shapeshifting Gove into a squidgey bollock; @Acerte1 gives us some rather cuddling childkilling
Also doing a good proper old school polcartoon is @StickyDrawer, shamelessly ripping off Fuseli, as EVERYONE has since Gillray & Rowlandson (literally); @esesmomondnd riffs nicely on shapeshifting Gove into a squidgey bollock; @Acerte1 gives us some rather cuddling childkilling
Also doing a good proper old school polcartoon is @StickyDrawer, shamelessly ripping off Fuseli, as EVERYONE has since Gillray & Rowlandson (literally); @esesmomondnd riffs nicely on shapeshifting Gove into a squidgey bollock; @Acerte1 gives us some rather cuddling childkilling
And there's more Fun with Animals from @AuntyNationalAH and, in collage form, from @NicBoothby. I have to say, I adore @olepoplia's Plastecine visions of hell, and equally hellish is @mikestokoe's post Warhol Gove
And there's more Fun with Animals from @AuntyNationalAH and, in collage form, from @NicBoothby. I have to say, I adore @olepoplia's Plastecine visions of hell, and equally hellish is @mikestokoe's post Warhol Gove
And there's more Fun with Animals from @AuntyNationalAH and, in collage form, from @NicBoothby. I have to say, I adore @olepoplia's Plastecine visions of hell, and equally hellish is @mikestokoe's post Warhol Gove
And there's more Fun with Animals from @AuntyNationalAH and, in collage form, from @NicBoothby. I have to say, I adore @olepoplia's Plastecine visions of hell, and equally hellish is @mikestokoe's post Warhol Gove
And there's more Fun with Animals from @AuntyNationalAH and, in collage form, from @NicBoothby. I have to say, I adore @olepoplia's Plastecine visions of hell, and equally hellish is @mikestokoe's post Warhol Gove
Which leaves us with the portraits, the caricatures and the surrealism. As I said, capturing whatever Gove has instead of a soul in his face is actually quite hard. @Cunningsplan, @JasonNParkinson & @caRICKaturist have all done stirling work...
Which leaves us with the portraits, the caricatures and the surrealism. As I said, capturing whatever Gove has instead of a soul in his face is actually quite hard. @Cunningsplan, @JasonNParkinson & @caRICKaturist have all done stirling work...
Which leaves us with the portraits, the caricatures and the surrealism. As I said, capturing whatever Gove has instead of a soul in his face is actually quite hard. @Cunningsplan, @JasonNParkinson & @caRICKaturist have all done stirling work...
Which leaves us with the portraits, the caricatures and the surrealism. As I said, capturing whatever Gove has instead of a soul in his face is actually quite hard. @Cunningsplan, @JasonNParkinson & @caRICKaturist have all done stirling work...
...though curiously, although caricature is often like a parable, exaggerating to reveal the inner & deeper truth, in Gove's case straight portraiture ends up as more tellingly grotesque, as these images by @DrPaulKleiman & @ColinDukelow attest...
...though curiously, although caricature is often like a parable, exaggerating to reveal the inner & deeper truth, in Gove's case straight portraiture ends up as more tellingly grotesque, as these images by @DrPaulKleiman & @ColinDukelow attest...
...though curiously, although caricature is often like a parable, exaggerating to reveal the inner & deeper truth, in Gove's case straight portraiture ends up as more tellingly grotesque, as these images by @DrPaulKleiman & @ColinDukelow attest...
...though weirder yet - and which says all you'll ever want to know about whatever it is Michael Gove has instead of a soul - the images that are most truly representative of this vile, unprincipled, trecherous crank aren't actually portraits at all, in the conventional sense...
...but far more akin to Surrealist objets trouve. @BCFergs Balloon (or condom?) Gove is sublime, while the brilliant @bluloutter has succeeded in producing something that actually looks more like Gove than Gove does. Extraordinary.
...but far more akin to Surrealist objets trouve. @BCFergs Balloon (or condom?) Gove is sublime, while the brilliant @bluloutter has succeeded in producing something that actually looks more like Gove than Gove does. Extraordinary.
...but far more akin to Surrealist objets trouve. @BCFergs Balloon (or condom?) Gove is sublime, while the brilliant @bluloutter has succeeded in producing something that actually looks more like Gove than Gove does. Extraordinary.
Finally, I know a whole bunch of you thought this Challenge was over almost before it started, with the great Viz artist @DHBJones' LunchGove, which is, I concede, a work of untrammelled genius. However...
However, just in terms of plumbing the depths of the Id and trawling back one of the most wholly disturbing - and wholly appropriate - visions of Michael Gove, the crown goes to @mikestokoe with this monstrosity - which apparently appeared to Mike in a dream. Faaaah. King. Hell.
So there you have it. Thanks for entering, as ever. None of you get a thing except for Mike, but this algorithm has me by the throat. Keep sending in the #DrawJacobReesMogg stuff, which will be judged mid-September when I'm back from me hols. It's the taking part, you know. Mxx
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