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A Cartoonist At The Guido Fawkes Tenth Anniversary Party #GF10

Published Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:40:46 -0500

by Rich Johnston

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The other night I went to a tenth anniversary awards do/party for the Guido Fawkes blog. I'm their Monday Morning cartoonist. Which means most Sunday nights I can be found poring over the political reports of the day looking for something I can be scabrous about, before sending in ideas to the big boys. And occasionally tracing the odd member's member.

And it was a great opportunity to, well, meet some of the folks I've drawn. Everyone seemed to have a favourite cartoon. And I was able to start a few sketches for future reference…

The evening was a wonderfully satirical stab at the establishment – and the site itself for joining it. The Daily Politics show on the BBC two days later ran a piece. And as friends watching the bit texted me, they felt it was like playing "Where's Richie" – I seemed to keep popping up in the background. Feel free to join in the game.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psY3mtEQVyY[/youtube]

And you can see the full awards presentation and introductory speech by London Mayor Boris Johnson here. I thought it was absolutely marvellous.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U-hZErah9Y[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRASc6GPMmY[/youtube]

As to the guest list, the Telegraph's Peter Oborne (and he really need a new byline photo) wrote about grabbing the seating list from outside and publishing it afterwards. Only thing is, Oborne didn't get all of pages. I used a camera instead… here's his missing page.