Times Like These

by David Ziggy Greene

Discover the truth behind the headlines with this collection of Private Eye's popular reportage column Scene & Heard, including previously unseen sketches and reports. David Ziggy Greene travels the country asking questions and sketching scenes of modern life. His detailed, funny, astute works of graphic reportage - at protests and festivals, cycle rides, farms and prisons - reveal the human cost of policy and the profound local impact of legislation. This new collection of columns also contains much brand new material - including a series of insightful sketches of human hubs such as A&E, the tube and the courts. With a foreword by Mark Thomas.

Genres: Nonfiction

144 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2018

Reviews

[Colin Murtagh · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are not many places left where cartooning reportage is still done, but one of the few is Scene and Heard, every fortnight in Private Eye. This is proper eye of the people reportage. Greene will show up at an event, and it can be anything, and then from stitching together interviews, sketches taken at the time, photographs, he gives a feeling of what is going on at the time. Putting that together with the research he does then leads to a powerful little piece.
In Private eye, they will take up about half a page, in the paperback version of the book, these are therefore much larger, giving a better look at the detail he puts in his sketches.
The subjects themselves range widely. He easily slips to a piece on the world chess championships, to the naked bike rides to an arms fair. From the demonstrations outside an abortion clinic to a university sit on, via the morris dancers, there's nothing off limits.
These are wonderful little pieces, and if you are at all undecided, can I suggest a quick look at some of the pieces on the artists web site.
http://www.samu.co.uk/reportage1.html

[Jane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such excellent, kind, balanced, and reflective reporting.