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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 28/09/2026

Work on show lately: LectorinFabula, Italy; Salon International de la Caricature, du Dessin de Presse et d’Humour, France.

A cartoon by Terry Anderson, contrasting the human impulses of visual art going back to the Stone Age and synthetic images produced and generative A.I.

Six cartoons by Terry Anderson, focusing upon: record summer temperatures
in Europe; Keir Starmer’s ousting as UK prime minister in favour of Andy Burnham; the insubstantial nature of the “MOU” between Iran and the USA; the quick succession of seven people to lead the UK in a decade; the chummy relationship between FIFA president Gianni Infantino & President Donald Trump; the condition of the “Reflecting Pool” in Washington, DC.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 11/09/2026

I drew this in the winter of 2001/02. It ran in Dark Horse Comics’ 9/11 anthology with colours by Dave Stewart. Sad to see how little has changed in Scotland and the wider world, and indeed what’s markedly worse 25 years after these events.

PANEL 1
text: Sighthill is one of Glasgow’s housing”schemes”, consisting of tower blocks built in the minimalist style typical of the 1960s…
image: a cluster of large, grey residential tower blocks
PANEL 2
text: It’s the sixth poorest area in UK, and home to nearly all of the Scottish refugee population, asylum-seekers hailing from countries like Sudan, Rwanda, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Most are Muslim…
image: a small family in Muslim garb walk among the tower blocks
PANEL 3
text: On Sunday, August 5th, 2001, Firsat Dag, a 22-year old Kurdish refugee, was stabbed to death by two youths.
image: a man lies in a pool of blood beneath a street light, held by a friend; two figures run in the distance
PANEL 4
text: There followed a wave of related assaults, and many took the to the streets to express their anger.
image: a group of agitated protesters
PANEL 5
text: The immigrants, many of whom fled their homes in fear for their lives, are disgusted by the kind of “welcome” they’ve received. The impoverished residents are aggrieved by the financial aid the newcomers receive…
image: a hijabi woman stands isolated among a crowd of western-clothed people
PANEL 6
text: This situation hasn’t been helped but reckless speculation for the popular press…
image: pig with press-hat & cigar holds newspaper bearing headline “Could Refugees Make Nerve Gas?”
PANEL 7
text: However, on 11th of September, all eyes turned to another group pf towers, and an act of unimaginable hatred…
image: abstract red forms against a black background
PANEL 8
text: Since then, no-one in Sighthill has suffered as those who died in the Twin Towers, the four ill-fated air liners, of even poor First. But the area is troubled still by loathing and bigotry.
image: a man washes graffiti “death the Islam” from a shop window shutter
PANEL 9
text: … it’s difficult to be optimistic about the future… but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t…
image: the same window, now bearing an “open” sign; two children play a puddle of water

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 02/08/2026

So it was nice to be asked back & draw members of Botswana, Sierra Leonne, South Africa, and Trinidad & Tobago’s teams as well as local volunteers. Don’t get inky fingers as often as I once did, for various reasons, but it’s still very apparent to me that few things connect like a live drawing.

Pin badge bearing the cartoon zebra mascot of the Botswana team at the XXXIIO Commonwealth Games, Glasgow 2026.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 23/07/2026

Glaringly obvious A.I. title sequence for the Commonwealth Games. Such an insult. Scotland, and Glasgow especially abounds in animators, graphic designers, cartoonists… Maddening.

Screenshot from the animated title sequence of Channel 5’s television broadcast of the XXIII Commonwealth Games. A typically overwrought A.I. generated image of two female basketball competitors, playing on a (Scottish?) village street with a hoop installed in the middle of the thoroughfare.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 04/03/2026

Fwiw this isn’t me. I don’t, and wouldn’t have a Substack (too many Nazis).

A Substack page claiming to offer a subscription to posts by Terry Anderson, Executive Director, Cartoonists Rights.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 12/02/2026

Seen this doing the rounds again. Appreciate the sentiment & agree with the point, i.e. like many (most) profile pic trends, the latest rush for ChatGPT “caricatures” was all about data harvesting. But question an anti-A.I. treatise very obviously illustrated, probably written using generative A.I.

Screen grab of a Facebook post from “The Driver’s Side” stating “The AI cartoon trend is the biggest data grab of 2026” and illustrated with a large spread of typically unpleasant, samey, yellow-tinged, AI-generated images.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 01/02/2026

Searched in vain for evidence of satire before blocking. If this is a bit, it’s at a Kaufman-level of commitment.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 03/12/2025

Used one of those third-party sites to do some Bluesky analytics today and was *treated* to this AI summary. Very convoluted way of saying “bog-standard lefty windbag”.

AI-generated summary of the author of the posts on this Bluesky account. The details are formulaic and the prose typically flatters rather than provide analysis or criticism.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 23/10/2025

State Farm Batman/Bateman ads Joker.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair mingles at a meeting on the new post-war transitional authority in Gaza.
Sorry, my mistake, it’s a picture of the DC Comics supervillain The Joker.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 23/08/2025

1. If we all get through the next ten years together & future generations have any interest at all in reviving what was once called journalism, summer 2025 needs studied in the 101 block. 2. If I didn’t have to keep my nose more than ordinarily clean, the tv licence would be punted into the sea.

Screen grab of BBC News headline pertaining to far-right protest at a hotel used to accommodate asylum seekers in Perth, Scotland.
In one breath it contradicts itself. The lede is “Hundreds at protests over asylum hotels in Perth”; the subheading reads “About 150 protestors and 250 counter protestors held signs and chanted outside of the Radisson Blu hotel.”
The accompanying photo is, predictably, of individual from the smaller group. White males of various ages hold signs bearing racist slogans and the Union Flag under the gaze of a police officer.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 05/08/2025

What the fuck are you talking about, other than providing grounds for instant deselection?

Mark Sewards MP breathlessly describes the “A.I.” version of himself that will be available to constituents “24/7”. Evidently fully on board with his leader’s blithe, heedless shilling for big tech overlords, he claims “the AI revolution is happening and we must embrace it to see how it can be useful, in all sectors.” The visual is of a white male in that overly rich, cod-Pixar style that is the default setting for such pointless digital filler.

Mark Sewards MP clarifies that his “A.I.” counterpart is in fact the only thing it possibly can be i.e. a glorified chat-bot, reassuring the reader that it “can’t ever replace any of the other work I do.”

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 13/06/2025

At the end of June I’ll be one of the panelists as Press Cartoon Belgium previews their 25th annual exhibit, part of the Cartoonfestival Knokke-Heist. presscartoon.com/news/view/511

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 19/05/2025

This framing is drivel bordering on nonsense. Employers and their funders don’t “pay” us to do anything other than our work duties. Whether there’s a conflict between those obligations and what we do in life off the clock is a wholly different and highly subjective matter.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 02/04/2025

An old #PatrickHarvie caricature from my pre-digital days. Maybe going into his first election as Green co-leader?

Pen & ink caricature of Patrick Harvie MSP, co-leader of the Scottish Green Party from 2008 to 2025 by cartoonist Terry Anderson.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 18/03/2025

Happening now in Gaza, the end of a supposedly landmark deal that we were assured was utterly impossible without buy-in from the famously anti-war peacenik occupying the White House. So who gives a tinker’s damn about any assurances forthcoming on Ukraine?

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 20/02/2025

Eager to see evidence, any at all, of this “don’t drink beer with friends” culture Vance describes.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 31/01/2025

Alright, Terry coded characters.

Wile E. Coyote (Looney Tunes) – a creature of esoteric appetites bordering on monomania, consistently let down, endangered, and injured by capitalism. All tactics, no strategy.

Jon Arbuckle (Garfield) – well meaning but irretrievably dorky cartoonist, whose care-giving responsibilities spell his doom.

The Mayor of Halloween Town (The Nightmare Before Christmas) – effusive functionary one minute, anxiety riddled wreck the next.

Duck (Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared) – a supercilious prick with an obvious inferiority complex, making the best of it while trapped in hell.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 19/01/2025

The “offensive” article in question. If enough readers complained about a singular column or feature would the paper’s publisher likewise conclude that journalism had “run its course”? Woeful. 2/2

Black & white editorial cartoon by Lee Judge and distributed by King Features, appearing in the print edition of the Latrobe Bulletin Jan 16, 2025.
Beneath the tagline “The proper way to fly a flag on Trump’s inauguration day” a drawing of the White House depicts the US national flag flying inverted, a traditional signal of distress.
This cartoon was deemed sufficiently “offensive” for the paper to cease publication of editorial cartoons entirely.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 19/01/2025

This statement, published yesterday in the Latrobe Bulletin is wrongheaded at best, craven & mercenary at worst. Have they any human employees or is it all AI; how else does “offensive” material “slip through” then go unremarked for 48hrs? Certainly no-one there comprehends the Streisand Effect. 1/2

Statement from the publisher, Latrobe Bulletin, 01/18/25 – “We apologize today for letting such an offensive cartoon slip through our editorial process and into our Editorial page of Volume 123 - Issue No. 20, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.
While political cartoons have run in newspapers, including the Latrobe Bulletin, for many years; this is a final example of how we feel they have run their course.”

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 09/01/2025

The community this tedious gasbag claims to represent best are palpably upset and he can’t help but gainsay. But what else is new? No-one is saying Telnaes had her fundamental rights injured, but the whole incident is most definitely indicative of a wider malaise & chilling of free expression.

Via an X post, shop owner and pub bore Dr Timothy Benson dispenses his wisdom over the resignation of cartoonist Ann Telnaes from The Washington Post, saying that “no-one has a right to be published” (unquestionably true) and that “no cartoonist has ever succeeded in having a cartoon published that ridicules their proprietor” (impossible to prove). Benson describes the reaction as “hysteria”; like all centrists, he’s a pill.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 08/01/2025

That’s Mr Hoofd to you.

In a sceeen shot from a Belgian documentary, cartoonist Terry Anderson is described as the “hoofd” of his organisation, Cartoonists Rights.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 13/12/2024

What a horrible bastard. Show me a professional “cheeky chappie”, I’ll show you a logorrheic boor. #DrawGreggWallace #DrawChallenge #greg #gregg #greggg #caricature #cartoon @martinrowson.bsky.social

Caricature of the former broadcaster and current pariah Gregg Wallace, the subject of Martin Rowson’s monthly Draw Challenge for December 2024, by Terry Anderson. Wallace’s features are distorted in an exaggerated version of his signature grimace, presumably in a brief pause for breath amid his incessant stream of antediluvian genital-centric “banter”.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 10/12/2024

On #HumanRightsDay best wishes to all the HRD friends I’ve made in the last few years who inspire with their boundless dedication. And moreso to the victims of human rights abuses it’s been my privilege to meet – especially brutalised cartoonists – whose astonishing resilience defies description.

Please support cartoonists’ freedom of expression on Human Rights Day!
Pledge Drive 2024 – donate today!
https://cartoonistsrights.org/donate

In a cartoon image drawn by Terry Anderson, a monstrously large police officer in tactical helmet and armour, carrying a shield and baton, smashes the ground. A smaller figure of a cartoonist wielding a pencil like a fencing foil has adopted a defensive stance, standing on top of the over-sized baton.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 30/11/2024

Very pushed for drawing time in November but nevertheless glad @martinrowson.bsky.social is now active here and hence his monthly #DrawChallenges are back. Here’s a quick last minute entry for #DrawJeremyClarkson. #caricature #cartoon #DrawChallenge #ham #gammon #jambon #pork

Caricature for Martin Rowson’s monthy Draw Challenge, which in November 2024 focused on the inexplicably popular broadcaster, columnist, farmer, bore, boor, and aspirant inheritance tax avoider Jeremy Clarkson. The cartoon is by Terry Anderson and depicts an exaggerated likeness of Clarkson’s already enormously elongated head and florid, gammony face.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 30/11/2024

All the love sloshing around for The Muppets Christmas Carol is fair enough, but the film’s associated imagery is marred by the presence of the plump, “beaked” looking Kermit that prevailed in a lot of late-era Henson material. Give me the half-empty, scrunched up frog every time.

Photo of Kermit the Frog, dressed in Victorian era clothing, as the character appeared in the role of Bob Cratchit in the 1992 film “The Muppet Christmas Carol” based on Charles Dickens’ novella. Since this is a publicity photo and not a still image from the film itself, the figure is not strictly speaking a puppet (or Muppet), but rather an articulated model that can be posed accordingly. Since there is no hand within, the frog has an over-stuffed appearance not normally seen when performed by a puppeteer.

Still image of Kermit the Frog, as performed by Jim Henson from “The Muppet Show”, 1976. Henson is “scrunching” the head and face of the hand puppet from within, giving Kermit a comically disgusted expression.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 27/11/2024

Let us begin the incantations, brethren.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 21/11/2024

Alas, bill HR 9495 went through, in a situation that’s comparable to this moment from The Simpsons, reversed.

In a screen shot from the episode of The Simpsons “Bart’s Comet”, an unnamed congressman proposes an amendment, saying: “Wait a second, I want to add a rider to that bill, $30 million of taxpayer money to supporting the perverted arts.”

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 08/11/2024

Hello new followers. Come for the reposts of better and cleverer people, stay for the occasional howls of anguish. #cartoons

Editorial cartoon by Terry Anderson. A family of three dressed in head-to-toe protective suits, with swimwear on top, pose for a selfie in a scorchingly hot, desolate environment. The father figure says “Cool.”

Editorial cartoon by Terry Anderson. Five successive British Conservative prime ministers – David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak – are depicted in order as their predecessor variously deflate, fade, explode, and self-immolate. In chorus they say “Trust me, I’ve got this.”

Editorial cartoon by Terry Anderson. A small figure with paste-pot and brush leans against a wall, exhausted. The wall is covered with a deep layer of posters, many discoloured and tattered with age, laid one over the other. All the posters describe the outbreak of war.

Editorial cartoon by Terry Anderson. Standing over a gravestone marked “cartoonists”, the figure of the Grim Reaper says “That’s not funny.”

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 07/11/2024

Get that disgusting lump of suppurating filth out of here.

Cartoon of repellent white supremacist and fascist Steve Bannon; three symbolic figures – Uncle Sam representing the USA, Marianne representing France, and Britannia representing the UK – are depicted in a fit of nausea by the presence of the smelly, corpulent, hideous troll Bannon, who wears a badge saying “racist”, just as he declared people should wear “with pride” in a speech to French National Rally members in 2018.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 25/10/2024

I like this photo of me, taken at last week’s European Cartoon Award event, as I appear to be in pain while haranguing a crowd, which seems about right.

In a darkened room a crowd of people listen to a speaker. At left, Terry Anderson (Executive Director of Cartoonists Rights, an NGO that advocates for cartoonists whose human rights are threatened) speaks into a microphone while making an emphatic gesture. At right, a large pencil-shaped column is marked “European Cartoon Award”, the event that took place October 17th 2024 in Bibliotheek Den Haag, The Netherlands.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 19/09/2024

I have capacity to look at cartoon assignments in q4 of 2024, so reach out if you need caricatures, comic strips, illustrations, or visualisations. Over three decades of experience working with clients in the private, public, and third sectors. Zero use of AI. #artshare #portfolioday #cartoonist

Caricature of popular personalities from the 2024 Olympic Games, Paris:
• Anthony Ammirati (pole vault, France)
• Imane Khelif (boxing, Algeria)
• Simone Biles (artistic gymnastics, USA)
• Yusuf Dikeç (air pistol, Türkiye)
• Stephen Nedoroscik (artistic gymnastics, USA)
• Rachael "Raygun" Gunn (breaking, Australia)

Page of children’s comic strip artwork depicting Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn, Scotland in 1314. The text is written in Scots.
Stirling Castle and massed soldiers carrying flags and weapons can be seen in the background.
Bruce – a man armoured in plate and mail, wearing a gold crown and a red and yellow Lion Rampant tabard – attempts to recite the opening lines of the poem “Scots Wha Hae” but is interrupted by soldiers more concerned with food.

Cartoon illustration depicting a pink squid in goggles and helmet driving a small red car with a clam shell canopy along the seabed. Various fish swim away, and shrimp wearing a police cap and riding a sea horse scolds the squid for speeding.

Cartoon illustration visualising the working process within an organisation. Three large interlinked cogs represent discrete stages – “I want to do it”, “I’m able to do it”, and “I’m doing it well” – and each is populated with small cartoon figures that exemplify different aspects of the work such as a sports coach, a film director, a general overseeing a map, and so on.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 14/09/2024

Amazing days the likes of which won’t be seen again, unfortunately.

Cartoonists Terry Anderson receives the gift of a Catalan flag at a showing of The Auld Acquaintance, an exhibition of cartoons reflecting upon the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum, at the Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs, Lleida.

Cartoonist Terry Anderson with students of the Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Économiques, Université de Limoges during a showing of The Auld Acquaintance, an exhibition of cartoons reflecting on the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum.

The main thoroughfare inside the Scottish Parliament, the final venue of six where selected works were shown from The Auld Acquaintance, an exhibition of cartoons reflecting on the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 14/09/2024

10 years since the Independence Referendum in Scotland and “The Auld Acquaintance”, the cartoon exhibition I curated and shown in six venues (details in alt text). Read about the show at the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio website: scottishcartoons.com/15years/

A cartoon depicts Alex Salmond (then Scotland’s First Minister) and David Cameron (UK Prime Minister) squabbling over symbols of oil reserves and the British pound ahead of the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum.

The Auld Acquaintance, an exhibition of cartoons reflecting upon the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum, shown at the Centre International de la Caricature du Dessin de Press et d’Humour, St.Just-le-Martel, France.

Cartoonists Terry Anderson and Steve Bell at a showing of The Auld Acquaintance, an exhibition of cartoons reflecting upon the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum, at the Guardian News & Media Gallery at Kings Place, London.

Cartoonists Greg Moodie and Terry Anderson with Yes Campaign chief executive Blair Jenkins at a showing of The Auld Acquaintance, an exhibition of cartoons reflecting on the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum, in Leiper Fine Art, Glasgow.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 29/08/2024

Have lately sat in on a couple of meetings concerning closure of Creative Scotland’s Open Fund for Individuals; from tomorrow the agency will no longer accept direct requests from artists. Getting the feeling that after 15 years of woeful performance CS just laid the camel’s-back-shattering straw.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 29/08/2024

Bad week for eugenicist nerds with messianic complexes.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 27/08/2024

As pointed out by the Wankernomics comedy troupe, the kind of corporate gruel spooned over by Keir Starmer today is so devoid of real meaning, such weak logorrheic sauce that the likes of Lockheed Martin are completely comfortable using it with reference to building WMD.