Embarrassment
Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :"You ARE the man they employ to hold their things are...
Date: 1957
From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.
Reference: A-386-157
Description: Shows a woman arriving at a cricket game with warm clothes for her husband. The man she is trying to give the clothes to is scowling at her, and her husband is blushing with embarrassment Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and blue coloured pencil on card, 280 x 255 mm
Lonsdale, Neil :[Descending into a lifeboat] 23 August 1975
Date: 1975
From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s
Reference: A-297-244
Description: A woman in a skirt descending a rope ladder from a liner to a waiting lifeboat or dinghy below. Her husband looks away, embarrassed, while the ship official already in the smaller boat shields his eyes to avoid looking up the woman's skirt Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper
Greenall, Frank fl 1980s-1990s :My God what a dog!!! Not a skerrick of shame, bloated o...
Date: 1992
From: Greenall, Frank, 1948- : The Dominion Sunday Times cartoons. 20 August - 4 October 1992
Reference: H-004-002
Description: Shows the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. The Duke is commenting on a newspaper report about one of the royal corgis. Refers to the embarrassment caused by Lady Sarah Fergusson's (Fergie's ) behaviour Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).
"No one can accuse us of not promoting women high enough." 23 May 2009
Date: 2009
From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly
Reference: DCDL-0011333
Description: Shows Melissa Lee, National candidate for Mt Albert, Paula Bennett, Minister for Social Development and Christine Rankin, newly appointed to the Families Commission. All are coming to grief in a great pool of broken eggs. In the background John Key comments that no-one can accuse the National government of not promoting women high enough. Refers to constant gaffes by Melissa Lee, and the very controversial appointment of Christine Rankin that was made by Paula Bennett. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"INTRODUCING the new appointee on the Family Commission!.." 2 June 2009
Date: 2009
From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]
Reference: DCDL-0011406
Description: Prime Minister John Key tries to shut doors on both Melissa Lee, the National candidate for the Mount Albert seat and Richard Worth, Minister of Internal Affairs. He turns round and gasps with horror as someone introduces the new appointee on the Family Commission; silhouetted in the opposite doorway and thrown as a shadow across the floor is Christine Rankin. Refers to problems the government has experienced with these three people. Melissa Lee is gaffing her way through the run up to the Mount Albert election, Richard Worth has been sacked from his ministerial post because of a string of questionable actions that have culminated in his offering jobs to a woman in return for sexual favours and Christine Rankin is a controversial figure wherever she goes. Published in MG Business Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"The staff in this office have been accused of trying to cover up something embarrassin...
Date: 2003
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0001428
Description: "The Politician" cartoon strip. A reporter accuses the Minister's staff of trying to cover up an embarrassment. The Minister is under a sheet. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"It's amazing how quickly politicians can pass legislation through parliament when it's...
Date: 2006
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0002535
Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. When a parliamentary official comments about the speed that with which legislation can be passed when it is in the politicians' interest the politician reacts angrily and flushes with embarrassment. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"Questions need to be asked!" "Er... OK, why didn't you know about that before you said...
Date: 2008
From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0008762
Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key with egg on his face after having promised to send an Air Force Boeing to Thailand to evacuate New Zealanders caught up in the current unrest. John Key holds up a nespaper that says that he discovered too late that both Boeings were in the United States for maintenance. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
'Qantas'. 19 August, 2008
Date: 2008
From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0007331
Description: Shows the Qantas logo with the kangaroo 'hanging on' and sweating in agony. Refers to Qantas being hit by an embarrassing flight incident when a plane was diverted because the toilets were full. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"BEEP!" "BEEP!" "No car? Couldn't your BOYFRIEND drive you? Oh, RIGHT... no boyfriend" ...
Date: 2010
From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]
Reference: DCDL-0014168
Description: Tony, Debbie and Jaimee get onto a Wellington bus using their snapper cards. When Jaimee swipes her card, instead of beeping, the machine tells the world that not only does Jamie have no car but she has no boyfriend. She is mortified. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"You've been lambasted for those remarks you made!" "Do you think my position in the pa...
Date: 2008
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0007920
Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister's position as chief party embarrassment is not under threat as a result of the remarks he has just made. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"The tape made of your private conversation has caused the party great embarrassment. Y...
Date: 2008
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0007250
Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister's private conversation has been recorded causing embarrassment. He has to get it back so that it can be used to gag him. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"The opposition are going to accuse us of secretly taping their private conversations!"...
Date: 2008
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0007256
Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister knows that the opposition is going to accuse them of secretly taping their private conversations because he has a secret tape of that conversation. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"I did not say those things about the prime minister. It's a media beat-up!!!!" "You've...
Date: 2008
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0006564
Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The politician hotly denies having said those things about the PM and says that it is a media beat-up. His adviser tells him that he has been summoned to the top floor for a PM beat-up. Reference to Phil Goff's embarrassment - himself as Labour leader and the possibility of a Labour Party defeat in the 2008 election. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"Blargh!" 'Crosby-Textor Consultants'. "How embarrassing... another leak!" 1 July, 2008
Date: 2008
From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]
Reference: DCDL-0006973
Description: Shows leader of the opposition, John Key, as a baby, wearing a nappy and crawing away from a pile of excrement labelled 'Crosby-Textor Consultants'. John Key feels embarrassed because of this new leak. He is crawing towards a barrage of cameras and microphones. Refers to the possibility that an email leak has revealed the fact that the National Party is taking advice from the Australian Consultants, Crosby-Textor. Prime Minister, Helen Clark, has described the firm as 'Tory tricksters'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Breakfast..."Yum." "Oops." 9 November, 2007
Date: 2007
From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0004344
Description: In the first of two frames a man dressed in military combat style clothing, holding a large rifle and with a hood and mask labelled 'Terrorism Act', sits at the breakfast table preparing to slice the top off a boiled egg. In the second frame he has sliced off the top of the egg and the egg has splashed all over his face. Refers to the dropping of the possibility of terrorism charges against the 17 people arrested in police raids under the Firearms Act and the Suppression of Terrorism Act on the 15th October, 2007. The cartoon suggests that the police have egg on their faces. Published in the Sunday Times Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"After your private comments were taped, the party wants this old war poster put up in ...
Date: 2008
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0007255
Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister's private conversation has been recorded causing embarrassment. A poster with 'Loose lips sink ships' is to be posted on his wall. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"The PM's never around when there's awkward questions being asked, and it's me that has...
Date: 2003
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0001412
Description: 'The politician' cartoon strip. The Minister is really annoyed about the fact that the more awkward the questions he has to answer the further away the Prime Minister seems to be. Today she is in Timbuctoo. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"It's great to be home! I've been fielding awkward questions all week!!!" "Why weren't ...
Date: 2003
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0001414
Description: 'The politician' cartoon strip. The Minister has just arrived home after a week of awkward questions in the house. He hands his coat to his wife with a sigh of relief and is then bombarded with awkward questions by her. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
The Loan Arranger. Crossing their palm with silver! 20 February, 2008
Date: 2008
From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers
Reference: DCDL-0005579
Description: Shows the head and an outstretched arm of Prime Minister, Helen Clark. On her palm is the shape of a horseshoe. In silhouette a horse and rider bearing the name 'Glenn' gallop across the image. The text talks about 'crossing their palm with silver' and the 'loan arranger'. There is also a small text in the lower right corner saying 'a helping hand?'. Refers to the embarrassment caused the Labour Party by the billionaire businessman, Owen Glenn who gave the party an interest free loan which is strictly-speaking a donation, and which was mistakenly denied by the President of the Labour Party, Mike Williams. It was also alleged that Owen Glenn had been promised a Queen's birthday honour in return for the loan, something the Labour Party denied. There is a play on the words 'loan arranger' and 'lone ranger'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).