

And I reckon Marx would have done so, too. Obviously, as a professional satirist, I disagree.

This was one reason why I hadn’t bothered making a fist of it in the CP: I’ve always subscribed to Orwell’s line about every joke being a tiny revolution, though a lot of people believe that None of This Is a Laughing Matter. When these cartoons came out as a book in 1983, there were calls for it to be banned from Collets, the old leftie bookshop in London. Steam and iron … how modern industry appears in Rowson’s work.
