Martin Robson

 

Martin Robson's lecture was about his work the meaning behind his work, why he choose to use government figures to produce funny bad looking cartoons of them, in a way so he could attack people who were more powerful than him, who he believes are mad and think that there gods and show them they are no better than the average man.

 

Martin Robson in his lecture give his own personal view where he does not see himself as an illustrator, but as a journalist who uses marriage of text and image to create funny drawings of Politicians, who he hates, but loves to draw them, where the whole point of these illustrations is to try and destroy there images, where they have to pretend to laugh about the illustrations.

 

In the lecture Robson shows his view about the history of cartoons, where he compared the idea of how Micky Mouse was just three black circles and Disney made a huge success from it and the world saw that, Robson also compares the idea of goofy with Anubis God of the dead, where Goofy has a dogs head on a human body similar to Anubis.

 

Martin Robson mainly talked about his own work, where he showed his drawings/ cartoons of Politicians, which he tried to make them look funny/ stupid, Nick Clegg in his cartoons was drawn as Pinocchio where Robson used the idea of how Clegg wanted to be a real Politician like Pinocchio wanted to be a real boy, Robson also gives a inside view into how Hitler was in league with the cartoonist, with his facial hair, where it could easily be drawn and cartoonist could easy draw it around the world.

 

Martin Robson also expressed his own personal views of Government officials, where he mostly talked about Tony Blair, which he showed a lot of his work to do with the subject matter of Blair, he showed a two clip animation of Blair licking George Bush's ass, where the tongue is moving towards Bush's ass.

 

        Robson's lecture was good in showing how you can keep working with the same subject matter/ style of drawing for the same figure and keep coming up with new ideas in how to use those illustrations, with theme colour and position.