15 Mar 2026
Matt Pritchett
Telegraph Cartoonist
Hello!
I hope you’re well. I went to see the Elvis documentary, inventively named EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (I see what you did there) this week, and I couldn’t recommend it more if you’re a fan of The King.
Without further ado, I hope you enjoy My Art This Time.
It’s hard to draw cartoons during times of conflict because you never know what will change overnight and suddenly become a lot less funny. As such, I have been focusing more on fuel this week – nothing says laugh out loud like the rising cost of a global resource.
I was glad to hear that the HMS Dragon finally got under way, and only a week late. It’s nice that our modes of transport run on the same delayed schedules no matter how important they are. We are all equal in the eyes of the British operational bureaucracy.
Yes, it does seem we didn’t massively think things through when we decided everything should go through this one teeny tiny canal no one had ever heard of before.
Of course I had to get a jab in at Mandelson in this week, who was pictured alongside Epstein and the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew at what seems to be either the world’s worst boys’ trip or a robe convention – hard to tell. The disgraced former ambassador managed to still wangle £77k in severance pay, despite his close friendship with Epstein.
If you thought we were running out of steam on the petrol jokes, you would be wrong. Ironically, the subject is proving rather sustainable on the cartoons front.
If this cartoon is your first realisation of what day it is today, I’m sorry to say it may already be too late for you.
If you’re unconvinced by Trump’s military prowess due to the childish way he’s naming operations, you would be completely right. Sometimes you should judge a book by its cover and this week it was confirmed by Britain’s greatest military expert that the book is “strategically pretty appalling”.
I hope you did remember Mother’s Day and you’re having a lovely time with your family. It’s my daughter’s first one as a mother so we’ll be round hers for lunch soon.
Until next time,
P.S. Anything for some spending money.
the unseen sketch
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