I admire his technique, but can't get along with the repetitive "here's another politician soaked in gore" theme.
He's in that depressive rabbit hole so many people are in nowadays ("the whole world is shit" rabbit-hole). Unfortunately, if you perpetuate that, as an artist, you become part of the problem.
You're telling your audience "Same shit, different day". You perpetuate anger, depression, even suicidal thinking.
It's a kind of anger-porn.
When I was at the Morning Star I deliberately didn't do that kind of cartoon, my hero in British political Cartoons has always been Matt, of the Telegraph.
Matt is 60, nearly 20 years older than Bob Moran, and I feel that extra lived experience makes a huge difference - eventually you get to an age when you realise that using your art to spread negativity is not the best thing to do.
Matt has always concentrated on how the "little people" react to the horrendous news, in the typical British way of making jokes about it.
Sometimes those jokes are bleak, but at least they are being made BY the little people, who will still be here (we hope) when the soaked-in-gore politicians have faded from human memory.
Here's one of my Matt-style cartoons from 2016, about Jeremy Corbyn. (Who was being stabbed in the back by the entire Labour Parliamentary Party at the time). Its low quality - I just grabbed it off my website.
Moran would have drawn Corbyn with a bunch of knives sticking in him (and probably did)!
