Cartoons by Tim Leatherbarrow
STOP PRESS: 306 MPs DECIDE WHETHER 62MILLION PEOPLE WANT TO ENTER EURO
SPEAKER'S WIFE Sally Bercow has some sage advice for Foreign Secretary William Hague following his panic-stricken public denial about being homosexual. "My first thought was 'why are you doing this?' I think he was given duff PR advice." Wise words indeed from the woman who, in 2009, publicly announced that she was a binge...
Archive, Issue 2, January 1995 A RECENTLY-PUBLISHED book reveals that Renaissance painter, Michelangelo actually disappeared for three years. Albert Crust, author of ‘Michelangelo Actually Disappeared For Three Years’, explains: “It was during the painting of the Sistine Chapel that this strange phenomenon was observed. While inside, the great artist was perfectly visible, but as...
St. Just-le-Martel – 28 Glorious Years! CARTOONS, CARICATURES AND cartooning have yet to be elevated to the status of ‘artform’ by the Arts Council in the UK. And perhaps this is a national attitude reflected in the difficulty of establishing a regular celebratory festival of the art (I’m going to use the term just...
ARCHIVE. Amended from original in issue 1, September 1994. WHY-OH-WHY do CD manufacturers gleefully design a container that automatically rips a lyric sheet to shreds wen you try to remove it? WHY-OH-WHY do you find so much dog poo on the only path through a large field? WHY-OH-WHY was Absolutely Fabulous such a success?
ARCHIVE. Amended from original in issue 1, September 1994. WEDNESDAY 27th JULY was a hot and clammy day. It was the sort of weather that persuades acres of waxy flesh to emerge from their wollen winter retreats. The elderly had even undone the top buttons of their thick winter coats. Watford was awash with...
ARCHIVE. Amended from original in issue 1, September 1994. ONLY THE OTHER day I was on my way to an important paper clip-bending meeting in London when I saw it. “STOP! Bring all your dry cleaning here!” scrawled all over a dirty bit of cardboard in a sweet shop window. Of course, I couldn’t...
Simon Ellinas, Guy Carter, Paul Baker and Ian Parratt are the cartoonists/writers responsible for the production of Ha! Magazine.
ARCHIVE. Amended from original in issue 2, January 1995. BEING BORN with a silver spoon in one’s mouth has its problems. For a start it’s a hellish borth experience for the mother. Especially if it’s a soup ladle. And it makes it so difficult to talk properly. But beyond these petty concerns, it makes...
ARCHIVE. Amended from original in issue 1, September 1994. A LOT OF PRESS coverage used to be given to the possible damaging effects that violent videos could have on unstable minds. They used to be called ‘Video Nasties’. ‘DVD Nasty’ doesn’t quite have the same ring about it, but the same principles apply. The...
Wayne Rooney Scores!
WHAT A WASTE of £1,200 for sex with a prostitute. Just think, Wayne could have had his ears pinned back for that amount and then maybe he wouldn't have to pay for it. Let's hope that team mate John Terry is not going to offer Coleen some consolation…
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