The Dublin-born author, who has lived in Catalonia since 1997, has managed to judge world news with his accurate proposals, appearing on the cover of some of the most well-known newspapers and magazines internationally.
You have to think of a concept and, based on it, draw an idea from the agenda that newspapers have been handling in recent days. It seems simple like that, but only some people are inspired while working. And one of them is undoubtedly the Irish illustrator Jon Berkeley , 58 years old.
After travelling the length and breadth of the world, from London to Sydney to Hong Kong (before the Internet there was no other way than knocking door to door looking for work), this cartoonist, who has been based in Sitges since 1997, made a name for himself thanks to his work for children, but his shrewdness in summarising the social situation of the time in an illustrated micro-story quickly led to him being contacted by major media outlets.
Hence, his works , in which everything from climate change or technology like Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son consumes us to the xenophobic message of Donald Trump in the US elections or the already "reign" of Putin in Russia, become a unique illustration of a forceful message and have been seen in numerous renowned publications such as Time, The Economist, The Sunday, Newsweek, Hot Press or The LA Times .
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