Black humour on black money: Pick your favourite among these winning cartoon entries

MOSSACK FONSECA

Those two words are worth many cartoons — 457 cartoons, to be precise, that ET readers sent in to capture those fourteen ominous letters that can sound like a catstroking Bond villain from one angle, a shack on a Goan beach from another, and a dodgy law firm with a lowwatt bulb hanging from the ceiling from yet another perspective.

Even as Mossack Fonseca continues to be in the news for all the wrong reasons, six entries to the GIVE ET YOUR PANAMA PICTURE Cartoon Contest make it to this edition for the right reason: they conjure up those fourteen letters, Mossack Fonseca, superbly. While many entries focused on Panama as an Island Paradise for those stashing away their unaccounted-for stash, others sent in images of corruption personified, one even riffing on the Panama Hat worn by a gambler and dodgy businessman in the movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

There was even a handful of entries from contestants between the ages of 12 and 14, confirming that black money has taken up the imagination of youngsters in this country as much as the dark arts in Harry Potter.

So here are our three winning entries, along with three more who stood out. The ET jury chose them for their originality, cleverness, execution — and chuckle factor. On World Cartoon Day today, Mossack Fonseca khush hua.