A grave situation

Amidst the bloodshed comes- even more bloodshed this time caused by a natural disaster, you would have to have been living in a hole if you didn’t know that I am of course referring to the Japanese catastrophe. In short a cataclysmic domino disaster that can only be described as horrifying. But it took an earthquake that caused a tsunami that killed a predicted 40,000 and raged inland to a defunct nuclear power plant that will wreak more nuclear havoc than Chernobyl to expose the shocking reality of nuclear safety.

To make the worst of a bad situation, according to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Fukushima should have been decommissioned in 1990 as it failed to meet safety regulations but nothing was done by TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) to address this problem, until now of course, the expression too little too late springs to mind.

To illustrate this incident initially I tried (like many other illustrators) to use imagery that put a more positive spin on the situation but found it impossible. Instead I found the most appropriate angle to approach this devastation was encompassed in the way that mass graves had been dug to bury the dead. The Japanese, having a mostly Buddhist population, prefer to cremate the deceased but this is unfeasible considering the circumstances so the military have resorted to digging mass graves for the victims of this severe tragedy.   

Talk to the Miliband, the government ain't listening

Last month saw a large cross section of the British public take to the streets of London to demonstrate against the governments ruthless cut's. An estimated 250,000+ were counted for at the TUC alternative march for jobs, growth and justice, in its midst were doctors, firemen, trade unions, community groups, teachers and pupils- all there to make clear their concern about the severity of the latest government cuts.

The government’s reaction to this statement from the majority was to ignore it and claim all is necessary to get rid of the deficit In fact the only consolation came from wide eyed, pity accumulator Ed Miliband.

In his speech to the thousands of already likely voters, Mili-hand compared their plight to the struggle of the suffragettes and the civil rights movement in America. Demonstrators may take some piece of mind for their efforts knowing that even though the government is making no amendments labour still backs the alternative.

Libyan Conflict

This image is the first of my world streets series, with so many horrific global incidents occurring at the moment I felt this was the best way to interpret them into imagery.

This piece is an attempt to portray the the situation in Libya in all of its aspects- Gaddafi's hired goons attacking the public,  the rebel uprising, the protests that started the chaos, the attacks on the public by the military, the UN-constitutional intervention, the toppling of a new breed: the celeb-dictator and in the foreground the reporters who have the had a five star experience of some of Libya's finest hotels.