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Mike Roberts 🎨
@miketoons.bsky.social
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Artist, printmaker, cartoonist, creative loose cannon, b 1st half 20thC. Likes baking bread. Lives in Cumbria. His imagination is often elsewhere. #FBPE
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Hurricane Melissa personified as a howling banshee as it approaches Jamaica. Digital art by Mike Roberts using Procreate. Not AI.
October 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Well…
Yellow sticker with black printing BOLLOCKS TO BREXIT #WeToldYouDo
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Nothing to do with this Mike Roberts.
I bake my own sourdough.
Home baked sourdough loaf on a wooden breadboard.
October 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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I think the Eric Morecambe statue is a better original.

New statue on National Mall celebrates ‘long-lasting bond’ between Trump and Epstein

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Bronze statue of Eric Morecambe situated on the central promenade in Morecambe, Lancashire, UK
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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I prefer this flag.
The white dragon of England.
The white dragon flag of England. A white dragon facing left on a red background.
August 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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A visit to see Galéon Andalucia in Whitehaven Habour, Cumbria.
☀️☀️☀️
Galéon Andalucia in Whitehaven Habour, Cumbria Galéon Andalucia in Whitehaven Habour, Cumbria. A photo of the masts and rigging. The stern of Galéon Andalucia in Whitehaven Habour, Cumbria The stern of Galéon Andalucia in Whitehaven Habour, Cumbria with the red and yellow Spanish national flag.
July 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Cartoon for football fans from When Saturday Comes @wsc.co.uk
Cartoon by Dave Robinson in When Saturday Comes monthly football magazine: two men walking together. Both are dressed in Manchester United replica shirts, club scarves and one wears a bucket hat in the club colours. One says to the other “United are so bad now I’m thinking of supporting my local team instead”
June 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Apparently, “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” is all his fault.
Image is Groundskeeper Willie from the TV series The Simpsons.
June 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Uninviting. But very interesting.
Wooden bench, which nobody has used to rest upon for many years, covered in thick lichens. Close up photo of thick lichens on the slats of a wooden bench.
June 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Ooh. Liverpool at Deepdale.
⚪️⚫️🔴🔴 #pnefc #lfc

Note: It’s Deepdale, not Deepdale Stadium
Photo of Cody Cakpo. Text: Pre-season 13thJuly Preston North End v Liverpool Deepdale Stadium [Point of Order, Mr Chairman: Deepdale is the proper name of Preston’s football ground, not Deepdale Stadium]
June 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Research continues…
Art by Mike Roberts: ‘Research continues’ – a cartoon of a thoughtful but puzzled scientist observing a minimalist piece of equipment that is emitting bright blue/green plasma from the end of its prongs.
May 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Some examples of Barry Fantoni’s caricatures from ‘The Media Mob’ with words by George Melly
Front cover of ‘The Media Mob’ : a collection of caricatures by Barry Fantoni with words by George Melly Caricature of astronomer Patrick Moore by Barry Fantoni Caricature of entertainer and compère Bruce Forsyth by Barry Fantoni
May 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Ah, petrichor 🌧️😌
Photo: front window, upper deck of X5 bus from Keswick to Penrith, covered with splashes of heavy rain
May 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Have I mentioned that I like baking bread?
Freshly baked pain de campagne sourdough loaf resting on a wire cooling rack. The loaf is round with the pattern on the crust from the cane proving basket. A deep slash across the loaf has allowed it to expand without cracking.
May 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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This is the companion piece by Magz Roberts: Hawthorns on Walkers Hill 1
Textile art by Magz Roberts with dyed and layered cloth, loose threads, of a view in the Vale of Pewsey, near Devizes, in Wiltshire. Woodborough Hill is in the distance and the landscape extends towards far Salisbury Plain.
May 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Lovely as all these dry, sunny ☀️ days are, I wonder when we are to get some much-needed rain 🌧️ It’s not normal, especially here in Cumbria!
Colour cartoon illustration of young boy (Roger Frames) asleep in the garden on a sunny day. Originally created by me (Mike Roberts) for Commodore Format magazine.
May 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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@theguardian.com Graphic Design changes to the Guardian’s website are irritating. Especially the thin, spidery typeface for the Opinion section on the homepage.
Screenshot of the Guardian mobile website showing lightweight headline typeface change on 7 May 2025
May 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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No

Saul Steinberg
Pen and ink drawing by Saul Steinberg. A man sits passively listening to the long-winded and florid words of a suited man behind a desk. All the words are contained in a speech balloon, shaped [ NO ]>
May 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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My fav photo of Drumpf
Wooden fence post with barbed wire. Horsehair has caught on the top of the fence post which looks remarkable like a certain DJT’s coiffure.
April 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Crossing the River Lune (at low tide) #westcoast
April 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Cartoon in this week’s Private Eye magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social
is particularly lovely. I’ve always called the mahoosive sycamore in a neighbour’s garden, the broccoli tree. 🥦
Photograph of a large sycamore tree in full leaf that lots a lot like a giant broccoli. Cartoon of two people looking at a large green “tree”. Caption : “You’re right, it IS broccoli!”
April 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Lovely story. Reminded me of Longitude, the novel (and TV film) about John Harrison, carpenter and clock maker.
March 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Oh, that’s good. #DontBuyATesla
A woman holds up a handmade poster which reads PORSCHE FAST FERRARI. FASTER TESLA FASCIST
March 31, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Age yourself with a toy from your childhood
Bayko building set: illustration of a girl and boy, in 1950s clothes, with a house that they have designed with the toy’s components.
March 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Five years ago. Pandemic lockdown art. Trying to lighten my mood. Four of my pieces done to pass the days. #COVID-19
Imaginary Covid variants seen under the microscope. Cartoon of green beast wearing a hoodie coughing Covid everywhere as it walks along. Cartoon of dishevelled B Johnson waving his fists, declaring “We’ll whack it with good ok’ solid British common sense… since we find ourselves with fuck-all else…” Cartoon of person dressed in clown’s clothes, wearing a medieval leather face hood. The hair indicates it’s B Johnson who is coughing the virus into the air.
March 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM