Cartoons from my regular strip in New Internationalist Magazine. We are all boiling frogs. Image description: two frogs in a pan of water on a gas ring. First frog exclaims, in anguish, “Melting ice! Record-breaking temperatures! Unexpected flooding! We should be worried about climate change RIGHT NOW!!!”. Second frog is laid-back and unworried. “Oh, you’re such a doom-monger. Why can’t … Read More
As probably not endorsed by Keira Knightley or Kristen Bell
DON’T CALL ME PRINCESS! Don’t Call Me Princess has arrived. It’s the feminist retake on fairy tales that I can’t believe that nobody else has ever written before. It’s launched, and it’s lovely. My other books pale beside its bubblegum brightness and its cheery, cheeky illustrations. Of course, I still love my previous books, and I used to think they … Read More
Don’t Call Me Princess! – the backstory.
The How, When and Why of Don’t Call Me Princess Our story starts, dear reader, about five years ago when my daughter looked like this: Quite little, huh? And we were in the Sure Start Centre (RIP), at playgroup, and there was a dressing-up box, and she put on a blue shiny dress. You know the sort – the ones … Read More
Early Pregnancy, Smells, Sickness and Hunger – excerpt from Bump
This is an excerpt from Bump: How To Make, Grow and Birth A Baby Please feel free to share the images and the post but don’t forget to credit www.cartoonkate.co.uk. The Smells The Sickness ‘Morning’ sickness is the clichéd sign of early pregnancy. It doesn’t just happen in the morning. 80% of pregnant women experience some nausea, and it’s … Read More
Ouch! Common Breastfeeding Complaints – excerpt from Food of Love
This is an excerpt from The Food of Love Please feel free to share the images and the post but don’t forget to credit www.cartoonkate.co.uk. “The breasts, especially after delivery, are liable to divers diseases; as inflammations, excoriations, indurations, tumefactions, nodes, absesses, schirrufes… ’ A supplement to Mr Chambers Cyclopedia 1753 For many women, breastfeeding is a completely pain-free experience. … Read More
How often should you feed your baby (Part 2)
This is an excerpt from The Food of Love Please feel free to share the images and the post but don’t forget to credit www.cartoonkate.co.uk. Human beings are a tribal species. Just as surely as fish swim in shoals and wildebeest run in herds, we have evolved to live in a close-knit, extended family group. There is a common saying … Read More
How often should you feed your baby? (Part 1) Excerpt from The Food Of Love
This is an excerpt from The Food of Love Please feel free to share the images and the post but don’t forget to credit www.cartoonkate.co.uk. First, some advice from the ‘experts’. ‘By two weeks, your baby… should manage to last three to four hours between feeds.’ The New Little Contented Baby Book ‘The infant should be put to the breast … Read More
‘You’ll ruin your figure!’ – Excerpt from The Food of Love
This is an excerpt from The Food of Love Please feel free to share the images and the post but don’t forget to credit www.cartoonkate.co.uk. Do you remember when you were a child, playing with your Barbie Doll and thinking about what life would be like when you were Grown Up? Well, d’you know what? Real women don’t look like … Read More
How to feed your baby – excerpt from The Food Of Love
This is an excerpt from The Food of Love Please feel free to share the images and the post but don’t forget to credit www.cartoonkate.co.uk. The thing is, babies don’t feed from the breast the same way that they feed from a bottle. To bottle-feed a baby, you place the rubber teat of the bottle between her gums, she sucks and … Read More
Wanna own a picture of Boris Johnson as a pile of snot?
Hello Internets. I am selling the original artwork for this, my first ever Canary political cartoon post. It’s a very tidy, vibrant colour pencil piece with, as a bonus, Rees-Mogg as a vampire impaled on his own crucifix. £900 ono. Gwan, celebrate the dying days of this Tory Government (I hope I’m not premature.) UPDATE: Half of the proceeds … Read More