Welcome to the website of Alex Hughes Cartoons and Caricatures. I'm a cartoonist and caricaturist from Birmingham in the UK. Scattered across these pages are examples of my work, published and unpublished, from political cartoons to personal caricatures, comic strips to magazine illustrations. Please feel free to have a good look around. My services are available for personal caricatures, on-the-spot caricature or any other cartoon, caricature or illustation work, and many of the cartoons on the site are available for sale. On this page I'll keep you up to date with news and developments, and elsewhere in this section there's a site map, the all-important frequently asked questions list, and a page of useful links.
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Card-i-cature a week... Week 47 - Alastair Darling (the Ace of Hearts)
Hello Darling! This weeks card is the beleaguered Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alastair Darling, who this week was twice forced to apologise to Parliament, firstly for the Northern Rock fiasco, then the news that two computer discs containing the entire contents of the 25 million names on the Child Benefits database, representing every school-age child in the UK, had been lost in the post...
Labels: ace, alastair darling, cards, hearts
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Saturday, September 22, 2007
Card-i-cature a week... Week 38 - Menzies Campbell (the 2 of Hearts)
Week 38, and with the political conference season getting into swing, I present Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell, who posed this week for a rather ill-advised photo of him pointing down a toilet...
Labels: cards, hearts, menzies campbell, two
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Card-i-cature a week... Week 37 - Brendan Barber (the Five of Hearts)
A slightly delayed week 37, and as it was the week of the TUC Conference I give you General Secretary Brendan Barber, who failed in his attempt to put pressure on keynote speaker Gordon Brown to raise pay for public sector workers.
Labels: brendan barber, cards, five, hearts
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Saturday, August 04, 2007
Card-i-cature a week... Week 28 - Jacqui Smith
Well, I've been a bit remiss in posting cards recently, so here's a four week catch-up, starting with week ending 14th July and newly appointed Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who revealed this week she had smoked cannabis as a student at university.
Labels: cards, hearts, jacqui smith, six
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Friday, June 29, 2007
Card-i-cature a week... Week 26 - Harriet Harman (the Queen of Hearts)
Halfway there, and only my first Queen. Although Harriet Harman is apparently Queen of Labour party members' Hearts, having being elected Deputy Leader of the Labour party this week, her reward from new Prime Minister Gordon Brown was not Deputy PM, but, er, Leader of the House of Commons (with Minister for Women thrown into the bargain).
Labels: cards, harriet harman, hearts, queen
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Friday, June 01, 2007
Card-i-cature a week... Week 21 - David Cameron
Week 21 - This week* Eton Educated Tory leader David Cameron announced that the Conservative party was to drop it's commitment to grammar schools, a move which upset a lot of the old guard...
* Ok, so this is a week late... been a bit busy, so I'm running behind, sorry.
Labels: cards, david cameron, eight, hearts
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Friday, May 11, 2007
Card-i-cature a week... Week 19 - Tony Blair (the King of Hearts)
Week 19, and the big news this week is the (shock! horror!) resignation of Prime Minister Tony Blair. Well, not yet, not until the end of June, but it's a start. Anyway, in honour of 10 years at Number 10, here's Tony now and then...
Labels: cards, hearts, king, tony blair
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Friday, March 30, 2007
Card-i-cature a week... Week 13 - Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley (and Illustration Friday - Snap)
OK, slight change of my own rules this week - it's the 9 of Hearts, and it's Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley, after their hell-freezing-over-style meeting at Stormont earlier this week. Above is Ian Paisley, and below is Gerry Adams (or the other way around...)
p.s. I'm also putting this in for Illustration Friday this week. The theme is Snap, and, well, you can't pass up a card game theme...
Labels: cards, gerry adams, hearts, ian paisley, illustration friday, nine, snap
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Comments (5):You're an ace.
I like greenie at top. When brownie is up top, his expressive noggin tends to dominate the scene. This is very fun illustration. Really dig the card theme.
posted byP.L. Frederick : 8:51 PM
Nice illo! Love the composition and facial expressions. Cool work.
posted byget zapped : 9:46 PM
Great stuff Alex- lovely clean illustration style and good use of design
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Great cairicatures. The deck of cards idea is awesome.
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Friday, March 23, 2007
Card-i-cature a week... Week 12 - Gordon Brown (the Jack of Hearts)
Week 12 and still going strong. This week, it's my first court card - Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown - as the Jack of Hearts, for his budget this week. Not quite the King yet...Labels: cards, gordon brown, hearts, jack
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Friday, March 02, 2007
Card-i-cature a week... Week 9 - Charles Clarke (the 3 of Hearts)
This week's card is the Three of Hearts - for Charles Clarke, who, along with fellow former minister Alan Milburn, launched a campaign for another candidate for Labour leader following the departure of Tony Blair, but seen by many as an assault on leader-in-waiting (or so he thinks) Gordon Brown...Labels: cards, charles clarke, hearts, three
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Friday, February 02, 2007
Card-i-cature a week... Week 5 - Lord Levy (the 4 of Hearts)
Another week, another card - this time it's the turn of recently re-arrested Lord LevyLabels: cards, four, hearts, lord levy
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Card-i-cature a week... Week 4 - John Reid (and Illustration Friday - Red)
Well, this week it's the turn of John Reid, Home Secretary, who has been in the news a fair bit over a number of issues in the last few weeks.
Also, and a bit of a cheat really, this is my 'Illustration Friday' entry, the theme this week being Red (referring, of course, to the Hearts suit in the deck). For those of you coming to my site from Illustration Friday, I'd suggest you have a quick look at this page for more details of my 'Card-i-cature a week' project.Labels: cards, hearts, illustration friday, john reid, red, ten
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Card-i-cature a week... Week 2 - Ruth Kelly (the 7 of Hearts)
Well, week 2 of Card-i-catures is here - and it's former Education Secretary Ruth Kelly.Labels: cards, hearts, ruth kelly, seven
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