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Date: 2001-2012

By: Crichton, Anna, 1957-; Listener (Periodical); New Zealand herald (Newspaper); Metro (Periodical); North and south (Periodical); Sunday star times (Newspaper)

Reference: DC-Group-0047

Description: Cartoons by Anna Crichton on aspects of political and social life in New Zealand and overseas, published in various papers - Listener, Herald Business, Metro, North and South, Sunday Star Times Part of the NZ Cartoon Archive Anna Crichton lives in Titirangi, New Zealand and works internationally. Her drawings have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Tatler, The Australian, Discovery, Morning Calm, House and Garden, The Listener, Manager Magazine, The Asset, AA Directions and Personal Investor. Crichton has also worked extensively for the advertising and design industry.

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017324

Description: The cartoon shows Prime Minister John Key as a large bird; he smiles as he offers a mouthful of worms to a number of hungry businessmen in a nest. Context - Published in New Zealand Herald Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017111

Description: The cartoon shows a group of high school girls rocking while a swotty classmate marches past with a book entitled 'The art of dance' balanced on her head. The cartoon accompanies the Debra Hill Cone column in the 'Business' piece about how books aren't the be all and end all of life. (NZ Herald 18 February 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017377

Description: The cartoon shows Philip Taito Field leaving a court house; behind the door hides a mischievous-looking 'toff' who is about to give him whiskey and a gun. Context - The 'Nick Smith on business' column entitled 'Cheaper justice in a bottle of Scotch'. Nick Smith says 'It makes me pine for that kinder, gentler age when serious issues of political corruption were dealt with quietly and efficiently. Back in the day, according to some Tory toffs, you simply supplied a bottle of Scotch and a gun to the miscreant and off he went into the night'. He is commenting on Philip Taito Field's long drawn out and very expensive trial on corruption charges. Published in New Zealand Herald Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017859

Description: Caricature of Hone Harawira, who has started the new 'Mana Party'. He is shown as a baby in a plaid skirt and tam-o-shanter, breaking a patu in a tantrum. Context - The cartoonist says 'Hone using past injustices to hide the fact that really all he is doing is trying to get power, he's presuming anger for europeans breaking his heritage spirit (patu) but he's really just a dysfunctional human'. The cartoon was drawn to illustrate an article written by Nick Smith called 'Backwards into the future' which looks at similarities between Maori and Scots politics. 'Both Maori and Scots political groups trade on a sense of tribal injustice: that the perfidious Pakeha or Sassenach, respectively, has committed and continues to commit a crime against an entire people'. (NZ Herald 20 May 2011) Title provided by librarian Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016027

Description: Shows Queen Elizabeth II falling off her throne which has been sitting on top of a globe. The Maori warrior who has been holding up the globe is spinning it around, resulting in the Queen's falling off it. Refers to the debate about New Zealand becoming a republic. Published in North and South Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017283

Description: A caricature of Alan Bollard the Governor of the Reserve Bank. Behind him small people in silhouette raise their fists and shout while he jambs a cork into a fizzing test tube. Context - The test tube fizz represents inflation and the people are those trying to influence Bollard's decision about whether to lower interest rates now or not. This cartoon and article were drawn and written the day before the decision was made to indeed lower interest rates. The cartoon was drawn to accompany an article by journalist Nick who thinks that Bollard's task, in contrast to the Government's, is to use monetary policy to deliver price stability and keep a lid on inflation. (Nick Smith When the pressure goes on - resist' in NZ Herald 21 March 2011) Published in the NZ Herald business column 11 March 2011 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017844

Description: Rodney Hide, who has been overturned as ACT leader by Don Brash, appears as Superman, but, against a background of skyscrapers, is falling from a very high building. Context - Don Brash took control of the ACT Party after a bloodless coup. Title supplied by librarian The cartoon was drawn to accompany an article called 'When there's no success like failure' in the 'Nick Smith on business' column in the NZ Herald 6 May 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017575

Description: Shows a woman who seems to be losing the top half of her gorgeous red dress; she has a large cabbage for a head. In the background is a horse and rider. When journalists write about sex or sexuality, they like to dress it up. Usually in Victorian tat, rather than modern bondage. The recent flurry of gosh-how-shocking stories about female consumption of pornography is emblematic. The creation and use of porn by women for women is one of the few growth areas in an industry that has suffered economic droop because of the internet. (Drawn to accompany Nick Smith - Porn? No, romance is the real risk in NZ Herald 21 April 2011) Published in the NZ Herald Business 21 April 2011 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017845

Description: The cartoon shows a sweetly inebriated golden man in a golden suit swinging upside down in an elegant fashion with a glass falling out of his hand. In the background are two fascinated children on a see-saw. Context - The cartoonist says 'this is about the ban on drinking alcohol in public places, i'm dramatising the idea that people will go quite off their head in public places ie 'sacred' kids playgrounds if they drink, and why not have some fun. Title supplied by librarian The cartoon accompanies an article called 'Beware the puritans at the gate' in Nick Smith's Business column on 13 May 2011 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017149

Description: The cartoon shows a knight in armour terrified by a bee that has landed on his nose. Context - the cartoon accompanies the Column 'Debra Hill Cone on business' of the 25 Feb entitled 'Risk - you're surrounded by it'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017879

Description: The cartoon shows a man and a gorgeous pink lady cat sitting together in a tin of Almas Iranian caviar. The image is an illustration drawn to accompany an article by Nick Smith (NZHerald 29 April 2011) about why the rich don't flaunt their conspicuous consumption more and not play-act at being a concerned over-consumer. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016928

Description: Shows Graeme Hart as a suckling pig, naked and shiny with an apple in his mouth; he nestles amongst herbs and lemons on a silver platter. The cartoonist writes 'Time's up for the rich and their bogus intellectual persona!' Published in Business Herald Deborah Hill Cone column 28th Jan 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017021

Description: The cartoon shows Prime Minister John Key smiling as he shakes hands with his double who wears a flowery shirt and 'jockey' underpants on his head. Title from file name Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022513

Description: Shows All Black player holding the Webb Ellis Cup as a fly flies in one ear and out the other ear. Context: New Zealand won the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019156

Description: Caricature of Adam Feeley, head of the Serious Fraud Squad, resisting a bottle of champagne that stands behind him. Context: Refers to a slur on his reputation brought about by drinking champagne to celebrate criminal charges against Rod Petricevic, as well as other lapses in judgement and inappropriate behaviour. Title supplied by librarian Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018959

Description: The cartoon shows a hideous scene of men in business suits grovelling in ecstacy as their bare backsides are whipped. Context: The cartoon illustrates Debra Hill Cone's article in the NZ Herald (28 October 2011) about politicians and the desire for power, being seen as a personality disorder. Inspired by the shenanigans in the run up to the elections on 26 November. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018958

Description: A man, whose skull has been opened to expose his brain, is eating. He raises a fork to his mouth and prepares to swallow a small man holding a banner that reads 'We are the 99%'. Context: Refers to the 'Occupy' movement that began in New York as a protest against corporate greed and maybe capitalism in general. The cartoon accompanies Debra Hill Cone's article published in the NZ Herald on 21 October 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019257

Description: Shows a rich man, whose brain is visible' putting a fork loaded with a small man into his mouth. The small man holds a placard which reads 'We are the 99%.' Context: Refers to the Occupy protest movement that began in New York to protest against capitalist ethics and corporate greed. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019425

Description: The cartoon shows two rough boys fighting in front of an elaborate picture frame while through the frame is an image of the globe. Context: relates to the run-up to the 2011 elections on 28th November. The two boys are the leaders of the two main parties, John Key (National) and Phil Goff (Labour). The cartoon illustrates an article by Deborah Hill Cone. Among other things the article suggests that 'there is a real existential crisis going on somewhere in the world but on our stage we still have politicians throwing custard pies and doing silly walks'. (Deborah Hill Cone on business in the NZ Herald: November 11 2011) Title created by librarian Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).