Frank Boyle is the popular and trenchant award-winning cartoonist for the Evening News in Edinburgh where he passes daily comment on the affairs of state and the positions and postures of politicians. This book is a selection of Frank's work in that paper since March 1999. This neatly covers the historic first term of the new Scottish Parliament, which has provided Frank with lots of cartoon material. Hence the title Hooray for Holyrood.

"Scotland has its own parliament...now it has its own cartoonist. Vote Boyle!"
Rory Bremner 

"Frank Boyle's    witty cartoons poke excellent fun at a city establishment that often takes itself too seriously."
Irvine Welsh 

"...the first thing I look at in the paper." "Frank Boyle's cartoons?...Great!"
Evening News Readers 

From the Publisher

Due to popular demand from the many followers of Boyling Point, a selection of his cartoons appears in book form for the first time.

 From the Author

Political cartoons tend by their nature to knock politicians but I wanted the overall message to be positive. Like the majority of Scots I voted for the parliament and I would like to see it succeed. However, the book is not just about Holyrood. It covers subjects as diverse as the campaign to save the Morningside toilets to global warming.

Most politicians are quite thick-skinned and seem to enjoy being the subject of cartoons no matter how scurrilous. One exception was the fundementalist US preacher Pat Robertson. He threatened to sue me over a cartoon I did of him (see page 12). This was in my first week at the paper. In the end he backed down. So in the spirit of open comment on the doings of those in power, if there are any who were offended the first time, they have the opportunity with this book to be offended all over again. For the rest, enjoy the book.

From the Inside Flap

"Frank Boyle is a master of the art of making cartoons, saying the unsaid and unsayable. However, I wish he wouldn't draw me as a wee fat wifie."

Margo MacDonald MSP

About the Author

Frank Boyle is the political cartoonist of the Edinburgh Evening News. He studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee and worked for D.C.Thomson & Co. His work has also appeared in Scotland on Sunday, The Herald, Daily Record, Sunday Telegraph, New Statesman and Tribune. His cartoons featured in the Ken Loach film Carla' Song. Frank Boyle also appears as a stand-up comedian under the stage name of Frank Quinn and performs regularly in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

ISBN:1902831500