Red pencils at the ready: Jeremy Corbyn colouring book goes on sale

Blackleaf

Hall of Fame Member
Oct 9, 2004
48,340
1,650
113
Adult colouring books are all the rage at the moment, and one is now on sale featuring the Labour Party's new Far-Left leader Jeremy Corbyn.

One image by artist James Nunn lampoons his unofficial 'Jez We Can' campaign slogan, and features him in front of a bright red bus headed straight for Downing Street.

More surreal images see him take on a Biblical role in Leonardo da Vinci's Creation of Adam, the Mona Lisa, and also trying out the part of Moses by parting the Red Sea.

Red pencils at the ready: Jeremy Corbyn COLOURING BOOK goes on sale as left-wing publishing enjoys a winter of content


Book by illustrator James Nunn features Labour leader in many poses

Images reference the Mona Lisa, the Creation of Adam, and story of Moses

Follows a craze both in adult colouring-in and spike in Left-wing book sales


By Kieran Corcoran for MailOnline
31 October 2015
Daily Mail

Die-hard lefties ready to join the adult colouring-in craze will get plenty of use for their red crayons - thanks to a book starring Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The book, due to be released this month, features the Left-wing firebrand in a variety of tongue-in-cheek poses.

One image by artist James Nunn lampoons his unofficial 'Jez We Can' campaign slogan, and features him in front of a bright red bus headed straight for Downing Street.


Red tide: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn takes centre stage in a new colouring book dedicated to the Left-wing leader. He is pictured right posing like the Mona Lisa


Means of creation: Corbyn has been lampooned in the tome, which puts him in the place of Adam in this play on Leonardo da Vinci's classic inside the Sistine Chapel

Labour is the 'nasty party' now and Jeremy Corbyn's hate mob could destroy us | Daily Mail Online


More surreal images see him takes on a Biblical role in Leonardo da Vinci's Creation of Adam, the Mona Lisa, and also trying out the part of Moses by parting the Red Sea.

Another sees him adhere to his routes in Communist thinking, by getting tangled up in the rich beard of Communist Manifesto co-author Friedrich Engels.

The book, due to be published next month by Old Street Publishing, also references Communist thinking on its inside cover.

An innocuous space with room for the owner to write their name under the words 'this book belongs to' was answered with 'property is theft!', a slogan by French anarchist thinker and Karl Marx contemporary Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.


Let my people go: Corbyn is shown above in the guide of Moses, parting the Red Sea


Marx my words: Communist theory is even referenced on an innocuous space meant for the owner's name, while a tiny Corbyn nestles in the beard of theorist Friedrich Engels (around two inches under the right of his moustache)


The publication comes amid a reported boom in the sales of Left-leaning literature in the wake of Corbyn's victory.

A report by Kremlin-backed broadcaster Russia Today found that sales of the Communist Manifesto, critiques of the Government's austerity policies and trade union history tomes have been flying off the shelves.

Vivian Archer, the manager of a bookshop in Newham, East London, told the channel: 'It's people trying to find out about the history of the Labour movement, the trade union movements, and the NHS has been a major issue - and, of course, anything on austerity.'

She also pointed to a children's book called Click, Clack Moo: Cows that type, which features cartoon livestock going on strike because their barns are too cold.


Red tide? Jeremy Corbyn's victory has reportedly prompted a spike in the sale of Left-leaning literature. He is pictured above addressing the Scottish Labour party's conference in Perth