Cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times, July 2021

Digital cartoons by Shaun Yeo on political and social issues in New Zealand and internationally. Published in the Otago Daily Times in May 2021. Cartoons depict:

- an Oranga Tamariki figure labelled 'care' and 'protection' gripping a child in a stranglehold;

- 'NZ's vaccine rollout' tortoise sleeping while Death says "By all means... take your time.";

- a figure holding a 'Hate Speech Reforms' poster and giving a thumbs up, then the same figure with red tape across their mouth as the poster falls to the ground;

- a painting of a train crashing over a cliff commissioned "for the National Party to commemorate Collins first year as leader";

- two figures discussing misinformation, one reads a newspaper, the second a Facebook post;

- a 'Fiji' hand reaching out of 'COVID' water;

- a horse laying a flower at a headstone labelled 'Forbury Park 1909-2021';

- ACT Party leader David Seymour doing a twerking dance move while wearing '12%' shorts next to National Party leader Judith Collins holding a '10%' piece of paper;

- United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson holding a 'Freedom Day' plan and rolling a pair of dice while Death looks on;

- an 'RSV [Respiratory syncytial virus]' snake coming through a cat flap towards a baby while two figures look out a window at 'COVID pandemic';

- a Mongrel Mob member carrying a basket of money labelled '$2.75m' away from the Beehive which has a washing machine in the side of the building;

- three figures in hazmat suits and one in casual clothing, one of the hazmat figures says "...and can someone tell the new guy that we don't do casual Fridays.";

- two figures hugging a large bag of money with a 'They Are Us' clapboard and script alongside the bag;

- three figures crouched to start a running race looking across to a fourth figure in the race, Death;

- a kiwi with it's neck stretched out across a stump labelled '$19b NZ's trade relationship with China' while a large panda looks down and holds an axe behind it's back;

- a COVID-19 virus holding a remote control with pause selected and a 'Trans-Tasman bubble' nearby;

- a child holding their stomach in hunger looking at an empty fridge labelled 'New Zealand produces enough food to feed 40 million people';

- two figures watching television and discussing the Olympics going ahead;

- United States Olympic gymanst Simone Biles after completing a routine on a vault labelled 'Mental Health';

- and oil spilling from an 'INEOS' drum with a silver fern in the puddle, captioned 'Oil Blacks'.

Title supplied by Library.

Arrangement: Delivered to the Library in a digital folder titled ‘YEO CARTOONS JULY 2021’.

Quantity: 20 digital cartoon(s).