Slugger’s Fergus Boylan is joint winner of Young Cartoonist of the Year…

Great news! [Not again!! – Ed] Our own Fergus is a joint winner of Young Cartoonist of the Year… The Guardian reports…

The under-30s competition was won by 29-year-old Fergus Boylan from Antrim, who goes by the handle @infiniteguff, for his depiction of Boris Johnson’s infamous adviser Dominic Cummings stuck deep in a hole, and looking upwards with trepidation. At ground level, Johnson, Gove and Hancock dig with gusto, splattering four essential workers stood behind them.

The judges called it “another excellent piece of visual slapstick”, with Rowson adding: “The works – and the visual representation of Dominic Cummings’ defining malevolent nerdiness, is so accurate it could be a photo.”

They add:

The competition, now in its 25th year, is often a strong indicator of future success and has produced winners including Nick Edwards, who went on to win an Emmy for his work on Uncle Grandpa in the US, the New Yorker cartoonist Will McPhail, and political cartoonist Matt Buck.

Let’s hope this is just the start of bigger and better things for the young Antrim man..

Mick Fealty

Mick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty