MCFly 045- Marc Roberts Cartoons

Marc Roberts has been cartooning for MCFly since its very first issue. He now has a spiffing website at www.marcrobertscartoons.com (thanks to Artists Project Earth and Graeme Sherriff). There are almost 500 cartoons on the site, many of which are about climate change. They can be searched via various themes. Volunteers are needed to type up the speech boxes for added accessibility for visually impaired people. Fast and accurate tpyists, please email editor@manchesterclimatefortnightly.info

Copenhagen and the Climate Slamdown.

Click here for a magnificent climate cartoon about Copenhagen by Manchester-based cartoonist Marc Roberts. It's in the latest New Internationalist.

MCFly has run a column for the past 20 or so issues (I may over-estimate) called "Coping With Copenhagen" (Copenhagen, in case you don't know, is ground zero for the Climate Change negotiations at which whirled leaders will be trying to hash out a successor global deal to the Kyoto Protocol, the only international and legally binding climate deal this species has thus far managed to create.)

Basically, we could easily have filled the newsletter with boring details about these negotiations, over which we have virtually no influence. But that info is easy to come by, and MANCHESTER Climate Fortnightly is just that. So we created this website.

And Marc Roberts (he of the cool icons and spot cartoons) agreed to have his arm twisted to do an extended wrestling-match metaphor of the whole sorry process.

On www.climateslamdown.wordpress.com you will be able to read the daily updates that we do about (but not "from" - we have not the time, money or inclination to go) how the negotiations pan out.

Please do tell us what you think!

Manchester Cartoonist gets more global coverage

Marc Roberts, who draws cartoons for Ethical Consumer and New Internationalist in addition to his Manchester Climate Fortnightly gig, has had another cartoon posted on the widely-read "Climate Progress" website.

He's also had several postings in each of Real Climate, Nature Climate Feedback and the New York Times dotearth blog. The latter even interviewed him.

Maybe one day Manchester and UK papers will bother to share with their readers the talent that the Americans have no problem seeing.