STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Meet the cartoonist
The Morning Star's pages are enlivened by some of the country's best political cartoonists. One of them is Bristolian STELLA PERRETT
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
What prompted you to draw cartoons?
To try and pacify the bullies at school, plus a steady diet of British and American comics as a child.
Have you any formal artistic training?
Only up to O-level Art.
What's the most difficult thing about producing a cartoon?
The hardest part is often getting the spatial balance right on paper and the precise wording. Japanese artists say it’s what you leave out that is most important and they are right.
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