Mike Roberts 🎨

@miketoons

Artist, printmaker, cartoonist, creative loose cannon, b 1st half 20thC. Likes baking bread. Lives in Cumbria. His imagination is often elsewhere. #FBPE

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Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· 13d

I'd be baking bread! My Welsh grandfather (who I never knew) was a baker in Holyhead.

Home baked Pain de Campagne sourdough loaf on the wire cooling rack after coming out of the oven. The loaf is a round boule with two slashes at right angles across the top.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· 13d

Very odd. Not planned. Self-seeded pansies, all the same colour, have sprung up between the paving of our garden patio.

Photo of a row of 4 tiny yellow flowered pansies growing in the gap between paving slabs.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· 15d

Captured our little hog on camera last night 🦔

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· 27d

You're not the first to ask.

Post by Larry the Cat on June 19, 2026

Larry the Cat
@number10cat.bsky.social

Does anyone know if Andy Burnham likes cats?

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Jun 27

Apart from old books and ‘ornaments’, this old London Midland and Scottish Railway station clock of mine is in regular use, ticking away day after day. Definitely pre-WWII but could be as old as the 1920s.

Photograph of wooden-cased wall clock by Joyce of Whitchurch originally assigned to a railway station. The clock face has Roman numerals.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Jun 19

Age yourself with a childhood crush

Black and white photograph of Elizabeth Taylor in the 1950s

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Jun 9

I'm feeling a bit smug too.

Screenshot:

Text reads...
YOUR CLOSEST COUNTERPART

The Philosophe

1700s • FRANCE • ENLIGHTENMENT PUBLICIST
Diderot & d'Alembert, the Encyclopédie

You aim wit and reason in public at superstition and cruelty, and you do not mind the enemies. You think ridicule and argument can drag the human race out of the dark.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· May 20

Acknowledgements to Schulz

The final three frames of a Schulz Peanuts cartoon strip. Lucy has been asking people to sign her piece of paper which absolves her of all blame.

Lucy “Just sign it… that’s right… thank you”

“No matter what happens any place or any time in the world, this absolves me from all the blame”

Charlie Brown (to himself) “ That must be a nice document to have.”

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· May 14

Eric Morecambe. Born on this day, 100 years ago.

Statue of Eric Morecambe on the promenade in Morecambe, Lancashire. Born Eric Bartholomew on 14th May 1926

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· May 12

Current mood.

Photo of a pen and ink drawing of a rough, gnarled character. It has a resigned, slightly puzzled look with rather blank eyes. The character could be of ancient stone but is certainly ancient.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· May 6

Love this tree. Not fond of sycamores but I’ll make an exception for this one. #TreeOfTheDay #StudioGhibli #MyNeighborTotoro

A very large sycamore tree in the garden of a neighbour. Now in full leaf it resembles the giant tree featured in the background paintings of Studio Ghibli’s ‘My Neighbour Totoro’

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Apr 29

Bloody Green Party candidate. I said you won’t be hypnotising me into voting for you. Cartoon by Martin Ross in @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Cartoon by Martin Ross in Private Eye magazine.

Scene in a house with two pensioners. The man has just been to the front door and is walking back to the living room. He has a bald head and a grey moustache. He appears to have large breasts under his jumper.
He speaks to his wife: “Bloody Green Party candidate. I said you won’t be hypnotising me into voting for you”.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Apr 20

If oil prices go up higher this fashion item will be a ‘must buy’ #aldi

Aldi store item:
Portable Solar Charger £29.99

Photo of a man outdoors wearing a tabard that consists of 4 solar panels

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Apr 15

Our attempt at creating a garden for wildlife is starting to pay off. Goldfinches, Redpolls, Siskins, Greenfinches, Chaffinches, even Bullfinches are visiting. Here are two half-decent photos of a Goldfinch and a Redpoll

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Apr 15

Thank you, Modern Toss

Cartoon in Private Eye #1673 by Modern Toss

Desperate Business
Board meeting with six people around an oval table. A flip chart shows a plummeting graph line

First speaker “I’m afraid it is what it is”
Second speaker replies ”Is this the same as when you said ‘we are where we are’?”

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Apr 15

Strange to have that 4th option “Not now”

The cover of children’s picture book “Not Now, Bernard” by David McKee. Small boy Bernard is talking to the monster, which he keeps trying to tell his parents about.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Mar 18

Current mood. Something like this. 50 minutes before kickoff at Anfield: Liverpool v Galatasaray ⚽️

A Total Fankle. Scribbly drawing of a fraught looking man. His head is the same size as his main body, eyes staring, furrowed brow. Printed as a drypoint etching. By Mike Roberts.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Mar 18

Signs of Spring. The Snowdrops are over but it’s time for Hellebores.

Photo of Hellebores in the garden. Low angle, looking up at the flowers which are creamy white, veined dark purple/crimson.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Mar 17

Looks more like a sycamore to me. Sunlit with dark sky. #TreeOfTheDay

Photo of large sycamore tree in early morning sunlight with a very dark, cloudy sky behind it. Seen at 7:55 while I was making coffee.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Mar 16

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.

Photo of the Millennium Bridge over the River Lune in Lancaster, about an hour before high tide.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Feb 24

I’m embarrassed to be in the only age group – over 65 – that still doesn’t want to rejoin Europe. 🇪🇺

(CHART)

SHOULD THE UNITED KINGDOM REJOIN THE EU?
2026 OPINION POLL UK

BY COUNTRY
Scotland Yes 63% / No 27%
Wales Yes 58% / No 35%
England Yes 53% / No 34%

BY AGE GROUP
18 - 24 Yes 71% / No 13%
25 - 49 Yes 64% / No 22%
50 - 64 Yes 48% / No 43%
65+ Yes 36% / No 54%

*EUMS
Source: YouGov

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Jan 22

The View from Trump Tower (2017) by Ruben Bolling

Illustration (2017) by Ruben Bolling: a pastiche of the famous Saul Steinberg cover for the New Yorker being an aerial view map “THE VIEW FROM TRUMP TOWER”. In foreground are LOSERS, then CRYBABIES, Hudson River, SPOIL-SPORTS, SAD, SMALLER CROWD THAN MY INAUGURATION, and in the far distance (West Coast) HATERS, WILL BE INVESTIGATED, NASTY WOMEN, CUCKS. Beyond the Pacific Ocean is the Kremlin - THE BOSS.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Jan 15

If you had an original Commodore 64 you’ll probably recognise this young chap, Roger Frames.

Illustration by Mike Roberts originally for Commodore Format magazine in 1991. Young boy Roger Frames has made a sand sculpture of a Commodore 64 games computer and monitor on the beach on a cold winter’s day. Snow flakes are falling, a seagull with an icicle on its beak flies past.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Jan 13

Jacques n'a pas vu l'oiseau Drypoint etching (done exactly 7 years ago today). Bon anniversaire, Jacques !

Drypoint etching by Mike Roberts.
Jacques is a character drawn with exaggerated proportions; the head is twice the size of the rest of the body. He had a rugged worldly-wise look. In his left hand is a lit cigarette. A pigeon is in the sky, flying past. In the distance is a triangular structure. None of this is supposed to make any sense, which fits well with the way things are.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Jan 12

This quote from David Hockney came to me again this morning when I was trying to sum up what’s missing in AI generated art. It’s imagery by instruction not hand, eye, heart.

"In painting you need the hand. Art is a more difficult subject and it might be more difficult to define. But painting is reasonably easy to define. And I'd say you need three things: the hand, the eye and the heart, as the Chinese say."

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Jan 1

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

A still from ‘Glass Onion’, a Knives Out whodunnit mystery starring Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc. A blue envelope contains an invitation. The words on the envelope read “My dear friends, my beautiful disruptors, my closest inner circle.”

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Jan 1

Here we are in 2026. Hope it’s not too crazy <understatement>

The year 2026 as anthropomorphised cartoon characters running along merrily if slightly crazily. In bright green and red colours.

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Dec 24

Happy Christmas BlueSkyers! Thanks for your likes and replies to my posts.

Photograph of a Robin perching on top of a wooden fence which has traces of snow stuck to it. Light snow was still falling when I took the photo. (Photo chosen as appropriate for Christmas Good Wishes)

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Dec 10

It’s that time of year again. #WinterSolstice #LightFallsShort

Cartoon illustration by Mike Roberts: Very gloomy scene. Dark grey clouds which the sun is trying to shine through. An unhappy man in a black brimmed hat and blue coat is muttering “I’m waiting for the solstice”

Mike Roberts 🎨@miketoons· Dec 7

Rather damp at Deepdale yesterday #pnefc #wrexham