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@creativeelc.bsky.social
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I draw Political/Editorial Cartoons & Illustrate for ThePost / The Press / Waikato Times & sometimes SundayStarTimes

https://bento.me/creativeelc

Occasionally Sweary. Origin Londoner, now Aotearoa 🇳🇿 forever. Kikorangi
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My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605... (standing in for Sharon Murdoch for the next 6 weeks).

Waitangi Day was supposed to be a coming together of our Nation to commemorate the signing of our founding document. Slightly hijacked by Mr Seymour.

#NzPol #WaitangiDay
Cartoon title: Cold Shoulder A tiny David Seymour, with his own tiny little mic, stands brazenly holding his speech. But what we hear is and see in his speech bubble are the words "Me! Me! Me! Me! Me! Me!" Over and over again. Nothing more nothing less. It's all about him. A group of 7 wahine stand with their backs turned to him. They are wearing handmade blankets with the words Toitū te Tiriti emblazoned on them. Tino Rangariratanga flag is there as is the flag of the united tribes of Aotearoa too. A few wahine are wearing weaved hats and a velvet Panama hat. They stand strong.
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December 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
creativeelc.bsky.social
My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Santa's got a huge pile of coal. If anything a lot of MP's should be getting it this year... but I'm not a miracle worker with caricatures 😂 So these two will have to do.

#NzPol #Caricature #Santa #Cartoon #NaughtyList
Cartoon. Title: NAUGHTY LIST Santa's grotto is packed to the rafters with coal for all those naughty children. And here he sits on his comfy throne. Standing in front of him are two little boys - Christopher Luxon and Christopher Hipkins. Santa doesn't look impressed. He says to them both, "And what makes you think you DON'T deserve a lump of coal?" Luxon says, "I have a plan!". Santa is holding a piece of coal down the side of his throne waiting to give it to them.
December 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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xtotl.bsky.social
So, today I'm wrapping up People Watching. Massive thanks to everyone who has supported it & all the cool people I've met and drawn. I wrote an article in the Sunday Magazine today talking about the lessons I've learned doing it - and there were so many.
www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3609...
December 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Billionaire NZME director Jim Grenon funding defamation lawsuit against TVNZ, court told
Billionaire NZME director Jim Grenon funding defamation lawsuit against TVNZ, court told
Jim Grenon suggested to controversial evangelist Julian Batchelor that he should sue TVNZ, according to evidence given in court....
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December 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

They're selling us fixes to problems that don't exist and calling it a success.

#NzPol #PoliticalCartoon #Caricature
Cartoon. Title: LAST WEEK OF PARLIAMENT: UNDER URGENCY! There are 4 panels. 1st has Luxon is in it (looking petrified) saying, "Not sure if you're makin' good laws?" 2nd has Seymour saying, "And don't want any scrutiny?" 3rd has Winnie saying, "Why not use Coalition under urgency detergent!" 4th has all three of them with a huge box of sparkling detergent with the words - COALITION UNDER URGENCY DETERGENT - and a little washing machine pumping out parliamentary bills. They three are saying, "it's...... Super quick, washes away tough questions, easily removes interfering clauses, guaranteed to work!
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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My little corner of the world was troubled of late by the question of how to make satirical comment on Israel’s state-sanctioned, lethal, and orgiastic violence without the risk of invoking antisemitic blood libel. Grateful to Gvir & co for providing a visual metaphor we can all use without fear.
leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19d
Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir and other members of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party wore golden noose-shaped pins to a Knesset National Security Committee meeting to discuss a bill to execute Palestinian detainees.
Left frame: Three men in suits wearing a golden noose pin on their lapels. Right frame: Close up of a golden noose pin.
December 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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It's time for that Cartoon of the Year lark. I mean, you COULD vote for this one. But other brands are available. Vote here: www.ellwoodatfield.com/cartoon-of-t...
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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BONKERS!

The Luxon Govt’s rewrite of the RMA laws allows companies to claim financial compensation (from taxpayers) when councils introduce rules to limit pollution or protect the environment.

Let that sink in.

#NZPOL
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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“If it’s okay for our ministers to speak like that, saying that our academics suffer from ‘derangement syndrome’, it makes it okay for the general public to say that.”
35,000 signatures land at Parliament calling for end of ‘disinformation’
Two former politicians have arrived at Parliament with near-matching petitions urging the Prime Minister to crack down on what they call “disinformation” from his deputies.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
creativeelc.bsky.social
My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

If you type '𝗚𝗼𝘃𝘁 𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲' into google you get a whole shit ton of articles - by the current lot.

#Cartoon #NzPol #Caricature #Luxon #Stanford
Cartoon. Title: Groundbreaking Four panels. Luxon is in the first holding a report that says 'IMPORTANT INFO INSIDE'. He says, "Erica... we have official advice on the Treaty in the curriculum..." the next panel has him holding the report up in his hand about to throw it to Erica, "AND... you know what that means!" Third panel: Erica Stanford catches the report and shouts, "I SURE DO CHRIS!" Fourth panel: Erica is standing by a green wheel bin holding the lid open with a whole load of expert reports inside it - "We file it away with all the other expert reports!"
December 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
creativeelc.bsky.social
My friend died today. Her alcoholism finally got her. She was my idol as a child.

I'm 19 years clean & sober - everyday I know I'm the lucky one. I made it out alive.

Too many don't.

She will be forever loved.

Peta Kennedy 1975-2025
December 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Dear friends and followers, we need your help this #GivingTuesday after a bad year for nonprofits in the US. Please donate and spread the word: cartoonistsrights.org/donate
IT’S GIVING TUESDAY! PLEASE GIVE TO CARTOONISTS RIGHTS SO THAT THEY CAN DEFEND YOURS. PLEASE HELP US DEFEND CARTOONISTS’ RIGHTS WITH A DONATION to cartoonistsrights/org/donate In a cartoon by Ann Telnaes, President Trump wields a flaming torching his right hand and a burning sheet of paper bearing the line “We The People” in his left. He wears a uniform redolent of a military dictator, including a fez emblazoned with an eagle.
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Bishop's Bridge Of Broken Dreams #NZpol #cartoon #Listener ( tweaked version )
Cartoon depicts minister Chris Bishop beside a bridge talking to homeless people. Bishop: “I’ve redirected Kainga Ora funding to this bridge in my electorate - also our solution to the housing crisis.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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jillianm.bsky.social
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
Reverse the decision to deny transgender and takatāpui young people access to puberty blockers
Dear Minister Simeon Brown We write to you as transgender and takatāpui young people of Aotearoa New Zealand to ask you to reconsider your decision to ban the use of puberty blockers (gonadotropin-re...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
creativeelc.bsky.social
My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Labour's getting primed for next year's election. Some are saying they aren't going far enough... time will tell.

#Nzpol #Caricature #Cartoon
Cartoon. Title: Labour Day We're in a field by the Beehive - NZ Parliament - there are two possible voters grazing on the grass. Behind them Chippy is tip toeing across the path towards the beehive with Barbara Edmonds in tow. He's saying, "Barb... gently, gently ok? No big surprises..." and Barb responds, "Yes, of course...don't wanna spook the voters".
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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My cartoon in today's www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Lumberjack Luxon taking and giving in many fell swoops...

Kererū is not happy...

#NzPol #Luxon #Caricature #Cartoon
Cartoon. Title: Kiwisaver boost promise to match Australian super In this cartoon we have Luxon standing amongst hundreds of felled trees. Three of the stumps have words on them: 1. Kickstarter 2. Govt. Contributions 3. Member Tax Credit He's standing with one foot resting on the 2nd stump. He has an axe hidden behind his back and says, "If you re-elect us we will push up our contributions to a total of 12%!". And in the back a lonesome Kererū sits on a stump swearing profusely.
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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If you have a dairy that got ramraided six times by the same kids and then they turned up one day outside asking everyone to contribute to “help make the dairy good again” then you’ll know what it feels like to hear National pledge to make our super savings as good as Australia’s
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
creativeelc.bsky.social
An oldie from 22nd April 2024 but even more relevant today than last year.

And each year that we continue to use fossil fuels.

#NzPol #Cartoon #30PercentPure
Cartoon. Title: 30% Pure New Zealand. We have an oil rig off the coast pumping out smoke, gas and of course oil. Words are written in a plume it says, 'WHERE ONE JOURNEY CAN DESTROY ANOTHER'. Using the catchphrase from the 100% NZ campaign but in a negative way.
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Simeon's dream of being a top ranking gladiator is realised here in cartoon form... The reality is, people are being hurt unnecessarily for profit.

#NzPol #Cartoon #Caricature #SimeonBrown #Government
Cartoon. Title: Simeon's demands on the health sector. We're in a corridor with Romanesque items - columns, roads, patterned walls. And Simeon Brown is tucked inside a golden chariot with his whip. And holding the chariot are three health sector workers. They're carrying him and running with agony in their faces. He's shouting at them, "MORE CUTS! MORE PATIENTS! MORE EFFICIENCY! FASTER! FASTER! FASTER!"
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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“We have a government willing to reshape constitutional understandings without genuine consultation, careful process, or respect for long-standing norms.” — Mark Feary.
The slow demolition of our democracy | E-Tangata
“We have a government willing to reshape constitutional understandings without genuine consultation, careful process, or respect for long-standing norms.” — Mark Feary.
e-tangata.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
creativeelc.bsky.social
My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

The week that a police scandal rocked Aotearoa New Zealand. At the highest level of law enforcement.

#McSkimming #NzPol #NZPolice #Police #Cartoon #Caricature
Cartoon. Title: Who will police the police? In a darkened room chief commissioner of the New Zealand police McSkimming sits at his desk. He's opening his laptop and says, "it's only a crime if you don't wear a uniform". Behind him in a frame reads the words 'Safer communities together'.
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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elea.fyi
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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teaonews.bsky.social
Rangatahi attending COP30 in Brazil are standing in solidarity with Indigenous land protectors who clashed with security after forcing their way through the main entrance.
Māori delegation at COP30 stand with local indigenous land protectors in Brazil
Rangatahi attending COP30 in Brazil are standing in solidarity with Indigenous land protectors who clashed with security after forcing their way through the main entrance.
www.teaonews.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
creativeelc.bsky.social
My cartoon in today’s The Post, The Press & Waikato Times www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Te Pāti Māori have broken apart. With the election just under a year away how will this play out and what will the left block do?

#NzPol #TePatiMaori #Cartoon
Cartoon. Title: Eyes off the ball All the political parties are on the rugby pitch. Across the touch line it reads ‘Election 2026’. Chris Bishop has the ball and is running close to the line cheering. We have Seymour, Mitchell, Simeon, Luxon, Stanford, Shane, Winston, Upston, Brooke - with the sign ‘coalition’. Then we have Chippy, Marama, Tamatha, Chlöe, McAnulty, Willie, Peeni, Duncan, Ayesha, Sepuloni, Ricardo and Steve Abel for Labour and the Greens. And then at the top right a referee is running to the corner where Te Pāti Māori are in a ruck fighting. Debbie and Hana-Rāwhiti are holding their party sign and John Tamihere, Mariameno, Kiri Tamihere waititi, Eru Kapa-Kingi are in a angry ruck and finally Ferris and Rawiri are in a tussle
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM