{"id":35859,"date":"2026-03-13T07:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35859"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:50:39","slug":"scmp-political-cartoonist-harry-harrisons-new-year-of-the-horse-collection-to-be-auctioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35859","title":{"rendered":"SCMP political cartoonist Harry Harrison\u2019s new Year of the Horse collection to be auctioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/12\/591a255d-3572-4d4f-b476-3e1f86cbf9ae_7e480bf1.jpg?itok=good4THe&amp;v=1773307942\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Whether it is news \u201cstraight from the horse\u2019s mouth\u201d, the futility of \u201cleading a horse to water\u201d or the perils of \u201clooking a gift horse in its mouth\u201d, the English language is trotting with equine idioms.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">For the South China Morning Post\u2019s resident political cartoonist <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Harry Harrison<\/span>, these well-worn phrases provide the perfect stable of inspiration for his latest collection of cheeky illustrations for the Year of the Horse.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">This set of eight original watercolour and ink works will be up for auction, as per tradition, at <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">The Store by the South China Morning Post<\/span>. Available for bidding from 11am (Hong Kong time) on March 13 to 2pm on March 19, each illustration has a starting price of HK$2,026 (US$260).<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">This April marks a quarter-century milestone at the SCMP for the Britain-born cartoonist. For 25 years, the Harry\u2019s View column has offered daily commentary on a vast spectrum of events, from Hong Kong\u2019s <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">capricious seat belt policies for buses<\/span> to war in the Middle East.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The new collection\u2019s first piece, titled <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Leap of Faith,<\/em> features Choy Sun \u2013 the god of wealth \u2013 galloping on a horse with an uncertain expression. Despite his signature tongue-in-cheek tone, Harrison is less of a sceptic than one may assume.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI think the point of a new year is to make it better than last year. I\u2019m an optimist \u2013 I can be cynical, but generally, I think everything\u2019s going to be all right,\u201d he says. \u201cBut you have to try to make it all right. You can\u2019t just rely on it being all right.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/chinese-culture\/article\/3346347\/scmp-political-cartoonist-harry-harrisons-new-year-horse-collection-be-auctioned?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it is news \u201cstraight from the horse\u2019s mouth\u201d, the futility of \u201cleading a horse to water\u201d or the perils of \u201clooking a gift horse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[17957,17955,5718,17956,2439,5734,4658,15476,791],"class_list":["post-35859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-auctioned","tag-cartoonist","tag-collection","tag-harrisons","tag-harry","tag-horse","tag-political","tag-scmp","tag-year","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}