As a chap who was born and bred in jolly old England (and fed on a steady diet of football) I wish I had not planned to send you a World Cup post today—but I’m a pro so I will battle through my heartbreak!
Last week the New Yorker published my series of World Cup drawings online. You can see one of them below and the rest of them on their Instagram page. Or, you can take a look on my website.
Below: From Soccer in the City for the New Yorker.
See the full set of illustrations on my website.
The two faces of the FIFA World Cup, Literary Review of Canada, 2026.
From my 2018 World Cup Yearbook for the New Yorker. Leo Messi had just turned thirty and people said he’d missed his chance for FIFA glory. People do say some silly things.
Technically this was a Paris Olympics cartoon but it’s very World Cuppy so I’m tucking it into this post. New Yorker, 2024.
We reviewed a second proof this week and with luck we can now fix the last printing glitches and send the book out to all those that helped fund the project. I promise your patience will be rewarded! After that it will go on general sale. Watch this space and see below for my unboxing video!
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My work has been selected as a finalist for the National Cartoonist Society Magazine/Newspaper Illustration Divisional Award. If you are a member, please consider lending me your vote!
Congratulations to the other nominees, Johnny Sampson and Nick Galifianakis.
Benjamin Franklin fails to annex Canada (Literary Review of Canada, 2025).
See you next time!
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