This cartoon, titled 'Thar He Blows', by Andrew Dyson was published in The Sydney Morning Herald on the 1st of April 2023. It is in landscape orientation, measuring 23 by 16 centimetres.
A neatly drawn, block coloured depiction of a harpooned whale with the features of a person, struggles against its distinctly smaller adversaries.
Against a muted, grey background of half sky, half sea, a large, tan whale with the face of Former US President Donald Trump leaps out of the water and to the left. The whale sports a mop of windswept blond hair. The tip of its tail is still submerged. Flecks of white in the water indicate movement.
The Trump-whale has small, angry, white-rimmed eyes with blond eyebrows and wrinkles around its eyes and nose. A rectangle of white indicates a row of top teeth above a cavernous, down-turned mouth. The whale has a double chin, a thick neck and two, stubby front fins. Its body forms a curved, bow-like shape.
Three harpoons are embedded in the creature's hide. Two have a severed section of squiggly rope flailing behind. A third, its rope still attached, is trailing a little white rowboat and in the boat are a pair of identical blue figures with tan faces. Their tiny white eyes bulge as they stand in the precariously angled vessel, behind the whale.
The figure closest to the rowboat's stern has their left arm extending behind them whilst the other figure at the bow holds three remaining harpoons vertically arranged between them. Text above their head reads 'Another indictment! Quick!'
Dyson's neat, black signature is nestled in the right bottom corner of the work.
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The label text for this cartoon reads: On the 30th of March 2023 a New York grand jury indicted former US President Donald Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Referencing the 'white whale' from Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick, Andrew Dyson predicted the many further indictments Trump would later receive for allegedly retaining national security documents, trying to overturn the 2020 election results and engaging in fraud.
