MARC ROBERTS CARTOONS

Reasons to be fearful, pt 3

2011-11-05T15:25:00.001Z

Fear of state reaction keeps the numbers down. Without it there might be millions!

Minority rules

2011-10-27T15:28:00.002Z

The minority may not rule as long as they imagine

Pre-Occupied

2011-10-27T12:35:00.004Z

The occupation near St Paul's cannot, apparently, be tolerated. The Canon resigns because he'a an...er...christian

Manc-Union

2011-10-01T19:24:00.001Z

The Tories arrive in Manchester to Lie and blather their way through another conference

Sustained development

2011-09-29T17:30:00.003Z

UK planning laws overhauled to allow developers a free hand to make their money before it all goes tits-up

Crashing Wall St.

2011-09-28T15:24:00.003Z

What with the ongoing occupation of New York's financial district, and City traders coming out from under their gilded rocks in full candour - Frank thought it about time to break out the D-locks and superglue again

Physics

2011-09-27T09:49:00.000Z

This cartoon originally appeared in New Internationalist magazine

Inputs and outputs

2011-09-27T09:41:00.001Z

Winner takes all

2011-09-27T08:24:00.001Z

This cartoon originally appears in Ethical Consumer magazine

All gone very quiet, hasn't it.

2011-08-31T17:01:00.003Z

Apologies to anyone who may inadvertently stumble across this site with a vague expectation of cartoony goodness. It's all gone very quiet of late. I am currently of the opinion that Frank's shenanegans are somewhat counter productive and am only doing the odd strip when directly requested. Preaching to the choir is all very well, in a narcissistic kind of way, but it doesn't seem to spread anything positive, which is what is so desperately needed in a culture obsessed with happy-ever-afters and consumable frivolity. . Frank has little positive to say - as he is a curmudgeonly old bastard hard-wired to diss the "opposition". Shame on him. Much as I enjoy being a cantankerous, nay-saying arse, I am currently exploring other avenues and will return once these alternatives blow up in my face and force me to re-engage with the the old git. Should anyone have any suggestions for directions Frank might take away from the cul-de-sac he has engineered for himself, please feel free to comment. Forgive me for not holding my breath in the meantime. But please, do...

Clicktivist

2011-07-31T17:27:00.001Z

Rupert the bare?

2011-07-11T20:02:00.001Z

The first pleasure I've ever had out of Rupert Murdoch

Brave Old World

2011-07-09T14:11:00.003Z

This cartoon first appeared in Ethical Consumer magazine

Don't let Frank's healthy appearance fool you. He's got six months to live. Chin up, old chap!

Selfish

2011-07-09T09:48:00.000Z

Mr Monbiot observes the end of aquatic vertebrate life

Planet of the Apes

2011-07-06T18:31:00.001Z

More Gort and Klaatu from the New Internationalist

More Hell

2011-07-06T18:29:00.000Z

Trying this strip on for size. Any comments welcome

Hellboy

2011-07-02T17:54:00.001Z

An old new strip that I didn't pursue any further

Transition 15 etc

2011-05-11T11:05:00.003Z

Transition 12 -14

2011-03-11T17:32:00.001Z

Love Thy Neighbour

2011-03-03T19:17:00.001Z

This cartoon originally appeared in New Internationalist magazine

Transition 11

2011-03-02T12:51:00.002Z

More Transition shenanegans

Transition 10

2011-02-28T13:20:00.001Z

Transition 9

2011-02-21T18:26:00.003Z

Transition 8

2011-02-18T13:42:00.001Z

Transition Strips 5 - 7

2011-02-16T18:41:00.004Z

These strips appear first HERE at The Transition Network

NEW Transition Strip. (an ongoing thread)

2011-02-06T10:16:00.012Z

This post started as the first 4 (but I have added more as time goes by) of a new series of strips I've put together for the Transition Network. They will be loosely exploring some of the Holmgren and Chamberlain transition scenarios through my usual combination of toilet humour and sarcasm. Those already familiar with the back story of Gort and Klaatu from the New Internationalist may recognise the odd recycled gag.

Please visit the Transition Network website and take some time to look around some of the many Transition initiatives being grown around the world.

My thanks to Ben Brangwyn and Rob Hopkins for their input and patience .

I'll be posting these under the tag "Transition".

UPDATE
This stream has come to a premature end due to some unravelling at my end. Sorry about this, - particular apologies to Ben and Rob.

Galloping Gish

2011-02-05T11:16:00.002Z

Suggested by Dwight Towers

Holiday Snap

2011-02-04T08:19:00.001Z

Gatekeeping?

2011-02-03T19:38:00.000Z

Well Remembered

2011-02-01T18:21:00.001Z

Unsustainable Over-development

2011-02-01T17:12:00.002Z

If anyone was reading these, they'd be asleep by now. With thanks to Mark James

All washed up?

2011-01-30T16:27:00.001Z

That's the last of these for a bit. The next cliche lining up for recycling will be......

Still Marooned

2011-01-28T15:24:00.002Z

I can keep this up all week unless someone stops me.

More Island spots

2011-01-27T22:24:00.002Z

Sustainable Private Transport

2011-01-26T20:37:00.006Z

Going on a little spot-cartoon-cliche detour, me.
Hope you don't mind

Figures

2011-01-21T14:33:00.005Z

Reports from BP and Exxon-Mobil predict ongoing and massive increases in CO2 levels due to energy consumption...
....whilst the consequences thereof threaten belt-tightening worldwide

Thanks to Susan Anderson for pointing me to this RealClimate corrective on some Food projection reports

Pulling Up the Ladder

2011-01-19T16:22:00.002Z

As youth unemployment in the UK reaches for the skies, the Coalition decides to pull up the ladder so the oiks don't muscle in on their action

Mismanaged Expectations

2011-01-18T16:41:00.002Z

I stole this from Dwight Towers, whilst pondering a thoughful DotEarth piece

Forthcoming Attractions

2011-01-16T17:26:00.000Z

After all the increasingly ridiculous hooplah that is the Kennedy affair. we at Throbgoblins International understand that some of you may be somewhat paranoid about the sudden appearance of a previously undisclosed McCudgeon. But trust me, I'm a cartoonist. We are beyond reproach.
I can't disclose the siting of the new strip as yet as I am awaiiting orders from my shadowy handlers. But put the date in your diary. Be honest, you have nothing better to do.

Be of as much cheer as you feel is appropriate under the circumstances
Marc

Police Notice

2011-01-14T17:50:00.002Z

It shouldn't be funny, and it isn't.....except it is

Gort and Klaatu catch up

2011-01-12T16:48:00.004Z

Both these cartoons originally appeared in New Internationalist magazine, but I forgot to post them here.

Deep Penetration

2011-01-10T17:00:00.004Z

This has been going on for ever. It's taken a while for it to bear its peculiar fruit - culminating in a deep cover agent-provocatuer's
exposure to the media, but, as the song goes, everbody knows.

This is a shameless repost of a toon from April 2009 - plus ca change. I suppose I really should have brought it up to date - with all the question marks hanging over legitimacy and legality and entrapment etc. But it'll be round again in a year or so. I'll do it then. .

Vive la Frank

2010-12-31T13:26:00.003Z

Got a text message from Frank this morning saying he's holed up in an abandoned tin mine somewhere in Cornwall until the festive madness is over. I imagine this means he will be back sometime in the new year. But you never can tell. His family is still very worried about him. Even his borderline-idiot of a long lost son turned up out of the blue - which is useful, because he'll be starring in a new cartoon strip to be launched in mid January, and I needed to get his likeness down on paper . What a coincidence. Happy new year to you both

Frank?

2010-12-26T15:38:00.003Z

Still no Frank. We sent out a search party this morning and found his slippers and cardigan in a snowdrift by the motorway, alongside a scattering of empty gin bottles and some syringes. Zorro is currently hibernating and is unavailable for comment

All Gods and none

2010-12-20T15:34:00.001Z

Whatever your reasons may be for celebrating at this time of year - may it be peaceful and joyous

Instant Messaging

2010-12-16T15:52:00.004Z

The Astro-turf phenomenon isn't new, but George Monbiot's recent article, and the recent Fox-leaks non-shock put it back in my mind

Elsewhere - Polar bears move inland and begin to assimilate, sound advice is offered on risk management and our persistent buggering of the soil takes its toll

122-WDIFB

Where art thou, Frank

2010-12-15T20:00:00.002Z

I'm a bit worried about Frank. He went out in a snow storm a few days ago after 12 solid hours of economics research. He may be some time.

Oh well - plenty more where he came from

Whispering Fire on a Crowded planet

2010-12-11T15:54:00.003Z

As Cancun winds up without collapsing, we are obliged to heave a reluctant sigh of qualified relief and await further developments. Low expectations make for happy campers

Carrots and Sticks

2010-12-09T17:01:00.002Z

Does it seem like I'm studiously avoiding the Cancun conference and snarking on matters financial instead? That's because I am. Last year Marc Hudson and I went elbow deep into the Copenhagen debacle and I'm not going to go over all that ground again. Others are doing a fine job of picking out the new and the nuance from that particular can of worms, and Ill leave it to them for now. Besides - it all comes down to money in the end, and to how we decide to re-arrange our economic priorities to reflect the realties we are facing in the twenty first century. Like everyone says - follow the money...

Squids in

2010-12-08T12:02:00.003Z

A shameless, unasked for and completely unauthorised plug for the New Economics Foundation initiative

Burning the Candle

2010-12-05T18:44:00.002Z

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

Of course it can all be very upsetting, and there's a world of shit going on behind the scenes, but ordinary people can do extraordinary things with remarkably little. There are always reasons to hope.
So bollocks to the zombies, and the liars, we are a creative species

Further Lost in Translation

2010-12-05T12:57:00.004Z

A system that relies on tomorrow being much, much bigger than today flies in the face of the reality of (soon to be) 9 billion folk on a finite planet.
They call them bubbles for a reason
Improvements are possible

DeGrowth, anyone?

Modernising Cantankerous Frank

2010-12-04T18:53:00.002Z

Reversing this sort of madness is the key to a sustainable culture.

We're all aware by now of how low expectations are realistic ones - what with one thing and another, and we all know that money can buy almost anyone, but, with a little understanding, and a bit of good will, who knows

Shouting Fire on a Crowded Planet

2010-12-01T13:38:00.001Z

Frank and Ern's kitchen is a highly combustible place - that's 3 times now. Must be the wiring.

As the American negotiators talk tough and warn the world to expect a walkout, the Amazon prepares to dry up and blow away

On a more positive note - aren't Earthships brilliant?!

Taking the high road

2010-11-30T15:39:00.002Z

David cameron seeks to harness the profit motive, Stephen Chu calls the move to sustainable energy a "Sputnik moment" and UN food experts call for a Green Marshall Plan
Some things change and some things stay the same

Oh - and Scientists suggest that the adults ignore the squeals of the children and just get on with it

Keeping it real

2010-11-29T18:27:00.002Z

As thre Cancun COP kicks off, we are reminded of what's at stake

Lost in Translation

2010-11-28T19:43:00.002Z

Speed

2010-11-28T14:43:00.001Z

Half a League Onward

2010-11-27T16:45:00.002Z

The Metropolitan police confidently predict an increase in public order problems

Coal hole and Normal Service

2010-11-26T15:11:00.009Z

Developed World Coal production is on the up to fuel the fires of China and India. It doesn't count in our emissions total. Neat, huh?

and another thing...

Now that the recession is, allegedly, starting to recede somewhat, we're back up to full speed as he hurtle towards the rapids.
Rich nations are still reneging on half-arsed "commitments" made to those on the front line

Thanks to Dwight Towers

Reality Checks

2010-11-25T10:34:00.002Z

Illogical Progression

2010-11-24T11:37:00.001Z

Strange how folk don't carry their distrust of scientific consensus over into other specialist areas, isn't it?

Mr Brightside's Modest Proposals

2010-11-22T16:22:00.002Z

This is a few days old now - a musing on the Berkeley research that explored people's fear of fear and their peculiar evidence-averse just-world view. This left me in something of a quandary. Does one tell the tale with all its' sorry implications, and run the risk that the audience jams down the shutters? Or does one ease up on the implications and give folk the opportunity to feel that there is nothing that needs to be done? What peculiarly unhelpful psychology we are blessed with.

In the end I plumped for doing what I do. It seems strange and willfully perverse to insist that a movement as broad and internally argumentative (not to mention overwhelmingly voluntary) as environmentalism should have one voice and one message and that it is somehow the sole responsibility of environmentalism to find the tiny chink in the public's psychological defenses that will miraculously overcome the foibles that evolution has left us with. You know - the one thing that'll turn it all around? Do you know it? I dont.
We could do with some help here. Hello? We. Could. Do. With. Some. Help. Here. It's a job of work that needs doing and will not be accomplished without the participation of every slice and nuance of the population.
Hmm. I feel a rant coming on so I'll stop. Although...

I get the impression that when the shit does hit the fan it will be the environmental movement that will be blamed - in glorious isolation - for failing to rally the planet, for failing to successfully herd cats and teach elephants to tap-dance. Fence-sitters are probably already drafting the charges now.

Alms and the Man

2010-11-15T13:32:00.003Z

Thanks to Craig Mackintosh for this link

Inundation Nation

2010-11-12T18:10:00.002Z

From an idea by Marc Hudson, for the final MCFly, I guess it plays on the long list of unheeded documents over too many years. I may be getting a wee bit cynical. Here are a few more that may go the same way, what with us being such arses and so bad at sums

Revelations

2010-11-11T20:13:00.003Z

In the US -A candidate for the House Energy and Commerce Committee gets his science from the ranting tracts of a bygone age

More on narrative, this time from RealClimate

Adam Corner on Geoengineering

Facts of Life

2010-11-09T18:01:00.000Z

This one stems from a DotEarth story about epidemic rises in incidences deformed beaks amongst the birds of Alaska and elsewhere

Burning Bridges

2010-11-09T13:22:00.005Z

This could be the new paradigm for gated industrial communities - imagine the hungry clamouring at the fences. Lots of uncertainty here, considering the problems of food supply for a growing population.
Meanwhile...the military pitch in, as do scientists, to tell a more convincing tale

Thanks, as ever, to Glenn Barry at Climate Ark for sterling work generating the links

Crop Circle

2010-11-08T16:43:00.003Z

This sprang from a nice overview of the issue from AP, and from the poorly examined coverage in the latest Channel 4 hack-fest

Yes, I know there's no punch-line

Tea=Party on, dudes

2010-11-02T18:39:00.002Z

This, too, shall pass

Prize the Lard

2010-10-31T19:17:00.002Z

The US mid term elections continue to fascinate. It seems to me that the astroturf phenomenon that is the tea-party is a scary slice of willful ignorance that panders to the spooky defeatist delusions of the Christian right.
Bur then I'm probably going to Hell.
Oh - we all are!

Apologies for the gratuitous cut and paste of earlier drawings

In the Psychiatrist's chair

2010-10-30T14:56:00.007Z

Thanks to the tireless Andy Revkin for the link

If you will indulge me for a moment. I've been trying to assimilate my recent trip to Boston ( a heavily footprinted week to attend a climate change symposium to which I was inexplicably invited). I've been trying to put the affects and effects together in my head. Some first impressions:-
The "take home" message I came away with was rather pessimistic, but curiously liberating. I was duly impressed by the comprehensive command of the issues displayed by so many, and by the genuine concern and dedication to the process of communicating the dangers, challenges and opportunities of global climate change. But I was also struck by the insularity of the whole process. I felt alienated by the sheer professionalism of the participants (apart from myself, obviously) and was constantly aware of the gulf between that world and the "reality" of my everyday experience.
On such brief experience of a nation it would be foolish to judge, (that's never stopped me before) but the impression of deep polarisation is hard to discount. So I was left with a feeling that the contrarians are far more more skilled at manipulating the discourse and that the reliance on honesty and integrity on the part of the climate-aware is poor competition to the cynicism and nous of the forces of (prideful) ignorance. This does not suggest any comfortable solutions.
I was also strongly affected by the sheer wealth of the place. The land, the infrastructure, the environment. No wonder they don't feel the potential for calamity. No wonder the American dream continues to seduce.
The curiously liberating part? Well, that's a hard one to pin down. But it boils down to an unavoidable impression that the US (and where the US goes, so goes the western world) is a generation away from addressing what it needs to address. But...it can turn on a dime once it feels it has been granted permission to do so (thanks, Mike Bonano). So in the meantime. we keep going. When the table tips there must be nets in place to catch the crockery and that, in itself, is a noble, worthwhile and unavoidable endevour. If we conceive of that net as a cultural re-imagining, then it is possible to keep putting our shift in; to keep turning up and walking into the tide..
And the American work ethic - so honourably manifested in Mr Revkin - has a potential that a stranger cannot really calculate.
On the whole - weird, expensive and enlightening, in an "oh shit" kind of way.
Ho hum - Back to the drawing board.

On an entirely unrelated matter - Frank would just like to say to Mark "Flash" Stone (from one fictional character to another) , "Fuck you!"

Action Man

2010-10-29T18:52:00.005Z

I've never been a particular fan of the Schwarzenegger ouevre (Terminator aside) but credit where it's due
Thanks to Shaz and Marc for pointing this out

Gunboat Diplomacy

2010-10-28T17:44:00.002Z

Oil free gunboats to be used to secure oil fields. Hmmm

Elsewhere, Self obsessed multibillionaire arseholes will soon get to be even more destructive than they already are.

and We continue to get our priorities spectacularly wrong

Thinking Tanks

2010-10-28T13:39:00.001Z

Musing on the wisdom of think-tanks and Institutes and the bogus legitimacy their business can sometimes confer. Perhaps these guys have been drinking at this trough

Debrief

2010-10-26T19:45:00.002Z

I've been to Boston to take part in a Goethe Institute symposium on Communication and Climate Change at Boston University. A somewhat baffling and deeply alien experience for me, but one that will undoubtedly leave a lasting impression. So many well informed and highly qualified people; so many well thought out positions. So what on Earth was a misanthropic paint-monkey like myself doing there? I haven't quite figured that out yet. I don't know whether my contribution was worth the carbon footprint I left getting there. I suppose that's not for me to say. People laughed, and kind words were spoken. But it was a long way to go for fart-gags. Don't get me wrong - I'm grateful for the opportunity and it was great to meet some people that I greatly admire.
So if it seems somewhat churlish to post this particular cartoon on my return, I don't mean it that way.
The Ern i my head won't let it lie, and the Frank has no reply.

Butterflies

2010-10-11T18:50:00.003Z

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You may have noticed that the site was down a few days ago. This was due to a hotlink that, after 89,000 hits, drained my bandwidth and left it exhausted in a ditch. My woeful ignorance of these matters necessitated a day off work and a great to-ing and fro-ing of e-mails whilst I figured out what was happening and sorted it. The website's owner apologised and I guess no harm was done. I even learned something.

Website discombobulation

2010-10-07T20:03:00.001Z

APOLOGIES for the main website being currently down. The server says that the bandwidth has been exceeded but the traffic counter says that's complete bollocks because only myself and the cat have visited all week - so I'm in the dark untill the Sherrif comes to my rescue.
In the meantime, talk amongst yourselves...

10;10 til we do it again

2010-10-04T20:36:00.003Z

Oh dear oh dear oh dear

Adaptability

2010-09-16T21:13:00.004Z

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The UK government's adaptation report admits that we've done bugger all to prepare for what's to come, offers no investment to do so now, and suggests that those who can profit where they can. Maybe they're aiming for some Mafia investment.

Low Lying

2010-09-15T19:43:00.003Z

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Shamelessly recycling old material from 2008, as the news goes round and round and round....

Kiribati shows some leadership, as the tiger continues it's journey into oblivion

Conflicts of Interests

2010-09-11T10:25:00.005Z

Military think-tanks are considering the likely consequences of peak oil and climate change, and adjusting their projections, as issues like water and land begin to take up ever more of the centre stage.

Having just noticed the date, I should add - although it should go without saying - that it is violence, the habit of violence, and the rush to violence for gain, that concerns us. I include economic violence here. It makes no odds whether it comes from individuals, governments or would-be governments. It is madness to suppose that an idea can be beaten into a human head, or liberty or divinity imposed at the point of a gun, so we must assume that those who put the innocent in harm's way have darker and more utilitarian motives. Blair, Bush and Bin Laden all piss in the same Machiavellian pot, and conceal themselves behind the same veils of religious exceptionalism. In the critical times ahead those habits would be suicidal.

A matter of scale

2010-09-09T13:58:00.003Z

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Suggested by this fine article by Craig Mackintosh

Plus a round of applause for Tod

Peak

2010-09-08T10:00:00.001Z

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More of an illustration, really

Reaper

2010-09-05T16:11:00.004Z

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Nice piece on AGW, markets and food-riots, by Raj Patel in the Guardian, and some further words on the biofuel connection.

And some fine urban food solutions from Grist

Rags and Riches

2010-09-03T16:06:00.003Z

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Chuckles makes some overdue points about the godawful shite-fest that is the fascion world

Elsewhere - a nod to Budhism as an environmental force, and some jolly notes on mass extinction. Have a nice weekend

Passion Wagons

2010-09-02T18:52:00.002Z

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A human powered car

The Kitchen Sinks

2010-09-01T15:19:00.002Z

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Musing on the value of differentials in a time of crisis.

Elsewhere... Nuclear costs continue to spiral and some in the industry glimpse a more sustainable future.

Another interesting TED talk

Negative Energies

2010-08-31T17:58:00.001Z

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There's been a lot of ink spilled over Climate Change today, largely prompted by the imminent arrival of Bjorn Lomborg's new book. Everyone's restating the dangers and the growing realities and it all looks pretty scary. But - how do we communicate this in a way that doesn't cause paralysis and panic?; in a way that engages the creative flows of our collective societies? Answers welcome

Sustenance

2010-08-30T12:10:00.003Z

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In a warming world pests migrate and flourish in previously inpenetrable habitats and latitudes.

Of course there are obvious problems with Frank's position here - like what happens when your subsistence gets washed away by some other unpredicted AGW shitstorm.

As ever, Permaculture looks straight into the heart of things (thanks to Craig Mackintosh for the links)

Cracking Codes

2010-08-27T13:37:00.002Z

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Whilst the Russians learn to live without buckwheat and displaced people are poised for land-struggles in Central Africa, boffins crack the wheat genome, which promises to keep us trying the same industrial scale thing for ever. And how will we fuel this ever expanding industrial agriculture sector? Hmm, maybe.
BAA propose to compost food waste - who'd have thunk it?

Manchester Inaction Plan

2010-08-25T13:37:00.004Z

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A local matter but one that is being played out in cities across the planet. For full details of Manchester's response to Climate Change there is no finer source than MCFly

Time

2010-08-21T17:42:00.002Z

I imagine that there must come a time when one must evaluate one's rationality and even sanity in continuing to spend inordinate amounts of time in a pursuit that is so clearly of interest to only a very very few people scattered extremely thinly across an entire planet. If the goal one wishes to achieve could be more productively accomplished - in terms of numbers at least - by shouting in an empty street or scrawling on a toilet wall, one must question the point of carrying on. Poor old Frank. Such a shocking waste of time. Such a pointless, pointless exercise. Ho hum. Never mind
I'm not one to give up on a lost cause though. There are so many bad old habits seductively beckoning me back home that I've gotta stick with it now, even though it is plainly insane to do so.
For those few who enjoy Frank, I thank you for your support and hope that future postings may continue to amuse. But you should realise that statistically speaking you are in such a small minority that you constitute a negligible error and can be safely discounted from consideration by all discerning comic strip enthusiasts. The evidence is in, the numbers have been checked and re-checked and I'm afraid that Frank is - officially - rubbish.

Still... fuck 'em, eh?

Tumbling Dice

2010-08-19T17:05:00.001Z

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For a better explanation, see DotEarth

Power Trip

2010-08-16T10:46:00.004Z

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The UK Gov't backtracks on cast iron commitments to Environmental performance standards to make space for more dirty coal

I can't help thinking it's a sweetener to bring the big energy companies on board for the stalled nuclear programme. Investors won't commit unless the taxpayer guarantees their profits and underwrites the decommissioning costs.

Public debt for private profit, without so much as a mention of consumer restraint- all sounds depressingly familiar

Against the Grain

2010-08-06T20:09:00.001Z

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Anaerobic Indigestion

2010-08-06T12:50:00.000Z

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Red

2010-08-04T12:04:00.002Z

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With environmental shitstorms coming thick and fast, we find ourselves scraping around for money to fix the damage whilst the financial elite bugger off with the family silver.

Whale Tale

2010-07-30T12:59:00.003Z

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With phyloplankton levels crashing, threatening the entire marine food chain, maybe more marine creatures should follow this whales example with a spot of direct action

job's a good 'un

2010-07-27T13:11:00.002Z

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