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The illustration relates to the text by providing drawn characters (pen and ink) that come back week after week. These are narrative and they follow the text of the article as family pictures would be, with added little notes that make them funny on their own - in this case one shoe off, one shoe on.
The Stephen Collins cartoon is also in the magazine:
His cartoon style allows him to extend ideas far in the imaginary world, allowing him to make a social observation. Although I quite like these cartoons, I rarely read them as they are printed quite small, so the text is very very small.
In the food and drink section, Berger and Wyse offer another cartoon:
This illustration plays on the idea that a food critique talk may start like the text in the bubbles, but the end of the scene represented shows that the man is more concerned with how to make his blog look good. It could be also a comment on people with phones in restaurants. It is narrative, and stands out by itself. I like best the cartoonist representation of the people's clothes and current fashion sense.
In "What I'm really thinking: the novelist", there is an illustration by Lo Cole
In "This column will change your life:..." By Oliver Burkeman, there is an article saying that 'Every hour spent sitting watching TV knocks almost 22 minutes off your life.'
Illustration: ladythingamajig.co.uk
This is my least favourite illustration in the magazine. To me Carpe Diem refers to a music group (French Prog Rock!), but it is latin losely translated as "seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future". OK, many Guardian readers will get it. So I can see the conceptual meaning here, and the 'decorative' aspect it has with the text. I understand sitting and watching TV shortens your life, from reading the article. I can't see why there is a goat or dog there, or is it that walking the dog is good for you?
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