Size: Mount 34 x 37 cm, drawing inside mount 13.5 x 19 cm

Condition: Drawing and mount in very good condition

This is a original cartoon by Neil Bennett done in felt tip pen and signed in his usual manner. The Z of Zone has some corrections.

I am not exactly sure what events the cartoon refers to or where and when it was published. It is likely to date to around late 2010/early 2011, and to a sequence of events which included David Cameron and the UK government flip-flopping on the establishment of a No Fly Zone over Syria, and the decommissioning of the Harrier jet fleet at the same time as the commissioning of two new expensive aircraft carriers.

Neil Bennett (born 1941) is a self-taught as a cartoonist. His first cartoon was published in the Cricketermagazine, but getting started as a cartoonist wasn't easy, and Bennett laterrecalled that "I tried when I was 18, was turned down and gave up until Iwas in my forties." Only in 1987, at the age of forty-six, did he finallyresign to become a full-time freelance. "It was a bit tight atfirst," he recalled, "but getting the first one was good."

Bennett's work has appeared in Private Eye, The Times,Spectator, Law Society Gazette, Punch, Independent Saturday Magazine, Esquire('Jekyll and Heidi' strip), Gramophone, Museums Journal, ECOS, EconomicAffairs, Oldie, New Statesman and Men Only. Best known for single-frame andpocket cartoons, Bennett has been diary cartoonist for The Times since 2000. In2002 he was voted Pocket Cartoonist of the Year by the Cartoon Art Trust.

Bennett draws quickly using fibre-tipped pens, and ishappiest drawing in black and white, rarely using washes or colour.