Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2021

Apr 21, 2025 1:54 AM

Author:Tim Benson

Bringing much-needed humour to a chaotic year, this full-colour cartoon companion features the most hilarious and incisive cartoons by Steve Bell, Peter Brookes, Nicola Jennings, Morten Morland, Patrick Blower and many more of the nation's finest cartoonists.

2021 is turning out to be another extraordinary year, from Covid crises and vaccine victories to lockdown learning, haddock havoc and Capitol coups. But, then, it has also been a very familiar story of Brexit blunders and Trumpian tantrums. The nation's greatest cartoonists have recorded it all with searing wit and astonishing creativity. Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2021 brings together cartoons from the nation's finest satirists, along with captions from Britain's leading cartoon expert, to tell the story of another tumultuous twelve months.

Reviews

As a compendium that will have you saying, "Oh my God, was that only this year?" quite literally over and over and over again, it can't be beaten. I have to say, having made my way through a second collection, I'm very much looking forward to next year's . . . Rapidly becoming one of the literary highlights of my year.

—— Bookmunch

A wonderful book . . . A beautiful thing to look at . . . Our brilliant cartoonists show there is still something to satirise . . . A great stocking filler.

—— Giles Coren

A blockbuster collection of the year's funniest political cartoons . . . [compiled by] Britain's leading authority on political cartoons . . . It made us chuckle.

—— Eamonn Holmes, talkRADIO

Thankfully, Britain's best satirists were around to turn their eyes and their pens to all [the UK's] events and more - and much of their best work features in this years title.

—— Total Politics

A Gone With the Wind of the North-West frontier

—— Jan Morris , The Times

Full of mystery, suspense, chilling legends, shifting mists, sombre bell peals and shadowy rowing boats, Fiona Mountain's novel is hard to put down and a fascinating read

—— Westmorland Gazette

Disgracefully enjoyable... beguiling, deftly-written, high class hocus-pocus

—— Daily Mail

It's Snow White with sex, and lots of it... the whole thing is just the ticket for when you're romance-free

—— Red Magazine

An absorbing, rollicking story, throbbing with sex and effortlessly controlled by the increasingly assured Kate Saunders

—— Good Housekeeping

This ripping yarn of mystery, murder and the machinating arms tycoon Baron Krapaud of Toad Hall is both irresistibly exciting and sumptuously designed.

—— Telegraph

Grandville is a favourite of ours.

—— Bleeding Cool

A multi-layered book that is both wildly witty and deeply wise.

—— David Robinson , Scotsman

A tender, witty and poignant look back at a lifelong obsession with fitness.

—— Paula Hawkins , Observer

An astonishing graphic novel/memoir whose precise drawings capture Bechdel's life-long hunt for transcendence through physical exertion.

—— Simon Kuper and Murad Ahmed , Financial Times, *Books of the Year*

The biggest event of the year was the return of Alison Bechdel... Bechdel's previous books have made her one of the superstars of graphic fiction, and this funny, perceptive and merciless account shows that...her talent remains undimmed.

—— James Smart , Guardian, *Books of the Year*

The Secret to Superhuman Strength... demands to be reread immediately... and does the reader far more good than a Peloton class and a cup of turmeric tea.

—— Rachel Cooke , Observer, *Books of the Year*

A joyful book, a feast of colour, wit and ideas about living in ever-changing times

—— Max Liu , iNews, *Books of the Year*

The brilliant cartoonist traces her own history of (sometimes obsessive) exercise in this stunning graphic memoir.

—— Bill Hayes , Reader's Digest

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