Cartoon Pick of the Week

Bloghorn spotted this great work during this week ending the 31st July 2009. One: Mike Williams in The Spectator: “Excuse me, could you pass me that magazine?” Two: Martin Rowson in The Guardian: Waiting for the Iraq inquiry Three: Morten Morland in The Times: Too many twits The PCO: Great British cartoon talent Subscribe to […]

Artist of the Month – John Roberts

Bloghorn asked Artist of the Month, John Roberts, if he had any tips for wannabe cartoonists? Hmmm, well, thank goodness for the digital age because it enables me to get most of my work through my website. I think you must have a good website these days so that you can generate good commercial work. […]

Cartoons and contraptions

Engines of Enchantment: The Machines and Cartoons of Rowland Emett is at the Cartoon Museum in London from this Wednesday (July 29) until November 1. The exhibition brings together for the first time in Britain the eccentric genius of Rowland Emett both as a cartoonist and as an inventor of bizarre machines. The show includes […]

Bloghorn of Africa

Bloghorner Tayo Fatunla is interviewed by the BBC World Service about his reports from the recent Pan-African Cultural festival in Algiers. The main clip starts at 16.15 in and Tayo takes some questions from about 26.00 in.

Cartoon Pick of the Week

Bloghorn spotted this great work during this week ending the 24th July 2009. One: Harry Venning’s Clare in the Community in The Guardian: lucky swines Two: Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury: a prime Twit Three: Ed McLachlan in Private Eye: doodle bug The PCO: Great British cartoon talent Subscribe to The Foghorn – our print cartoon magazine

Artist of the Month – John Roberts

John Roberts is our Artist of the Month for July so we asked him which other cartoonist’s work he admired. The cartoonist whose work I most admire has to be Holte (Trevor Holder) who I understand is now fully retired. (Why does a cartoonist retire….?) His line and colour work was amazing and I think […]

The multi-skilled cartoonist

The word “cartoon” means different things to different people. To Leonardo Da Vinci it meant a drawing of a larger idea, although neither Peter Cook or Dudley Moore found it very funny (7 mins in). The digital reproduction of PCOer Ian Ellery‘s linocut, above, falls into the first area. The strength and the weakness of […]

Cartooning as reportage

Cartoons as reportage, covering social and political issues and real-life events, have come to the fore over recent years, most prominently with graphic novels from the likes of Joe Sacco and Marjane Satrapi. Next month sees publication of A.D. – New Orleans After the Deluge by cartoonist Josh Neufeld. It tells the stories of real-life […]

Artist of the Month – John Roberts

Bloghorn asked the our Artist of the Month for July, John Roberts, how he makes his cartoons. Like everyone else, I have this huge old trunk of ‘cartoon ideas’ in the loft and once I’ve had a good rummage through I’ll sit down and draw them up. Until recently I would use a computer but […]