Cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times, August 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:

- one figure entering a store pushing a trolley with a large money bag and a second figure exiting the store with a trolley of groceries;

- a doctor and nurse next to a figure in a hospital bed discussing "worryingly low" vital signs of the nursing roster;

- New Zealand Olympic canoeist Lisa Carrington paddling above the water;

- portrait of Lisa Carrington 'NZ's Greatest Olympian' alongside a quote from Carrington;

- All Black Aaron Smith diving through the middle zero of a large '100';

- two figures on park benches discussing changing the name of New Zealand to 'Unaffordable';

- two figures riding a tandem bike with their shorts slipping down while two other figures comment "Ha! Reminds me of the National Party." "Really, how so?" "Promises unity but cracks are showing.";

- a man on bended knee proposing to a figure who is running away, captioned 'New Zealand marriage rates lowest on record';

- two wrecking balls labelled 'Accusations' and "Recriminations' hitting a statue of Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt labelled 'Sir Tim's legacy';

- National Party leader Judith Collins as Winston Churchill captioned 'Collins lashes out at Greens for ditching Churchill portrait';

- an hourglass with sand in the top half labelled 'Delta Variant' beginning to fall into the lower half labelled 'New Zealand';

- a teddy bear climbing onto a windowsill and thinking "Sigh, once more unto the breach New Zealand";

- two teddy bears, one holding a 'Mask up N.Z.' sign and wearing a domino mask around it's eyes, the second wearing a face mask and saying "Um... wrong mask Trev.";

- two figures on a couch, one petting a dog, the other a cat, while the dog thinks "Sigh, I know it's wrong but I do love lockdowns.";

- a wall partially wallpapered and a woman asking a man "Perhaps now that it's been extended you can finish the project you began during last year's lockdown.";

- a COVID barcode saying "About bloody time!", captioned 'Covid scanning, record keeping to become mandatory';

- a kiwi playing a 'Delta Kong' video game and exclaiming "Stuck on level 4!";

- two figures at a table, one reading a newspaper asks "It says here that lockdown actually strengthens marriages. What do you think Debra?", the second responds "My name's Helen.";

- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern walking towards two doors 'Damned if you do' and 'Damned if you don't', captioned 'Decision on alert levels expected today';

- kiwis swimming away from a sinking ship and coming ashore on 'Vaccination Island';

- and a poker machine (pokie) with three aligned images of a Bull, captioned 'Spinning bull----' 'Gaming Machine Association warns that community projects will suffer because no money is going into pokies during lockdown'.

Title supplied by Library.

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

Quantity: 21 digital cartoon(s).