"I'm old school. In the same way humans have for at least 67,800 years, I make marks with something runny on a flattish surface. Despite the growth of digital imaging over the past 40 years, I can't even do Photoshop. That's why I wanted to see what would happen if my friend and colleague Ella Baron and I had a cartoon-off, drawing the same topic to the same deadline, because she works exclusively digitally."
"My ludditism lies in my love of the tactility of the pencils, pens and brushes I use caressing and snagging on the paper. I also like the jeopardy, dancing with deadlines or not knowing if doing that wash in that way at this point is going to work or completely ruin the image. This lack of certainty is what makes my job fun (it's standard seat-of-the-pants journalism)."
Martin Rowson and Ella Baron created same-day cartoons of Trump against a backdrop of global turmoil, using contrasting methods and visual ideas. Rowson uses traditional pencils, pens and brushes, values tactility and the uncertainty of washes, refuses to use Photoshop, and draws inspiration from Ronald Searle and Ralph Steadman. Baron works exclusively digitally and proposed a dystopian composition of Trump squatting in a nest amid spoils; Rowson chose a warped King Lear tableau with snickering world leaders. Both artists face deadlines, enjoy the challenges and joys of political cartooning, and exchange lessons across analogue and digital practices.
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