Switch over to Shrewsbury cartoon festival 2012
The annual festival weekend is, er, this weekend – 19th-22nd April
A Monday Round-up
You may have noticed a lack of blog posts last week, this was caused by various changes going on behind the scenes to this website. To make it up to you, we offer an early round-up of cartooning links this week, as later we’ll be concentrating on this week’s Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival (April 19-22). First up, you […]
The Round-up
Former Punch cartoonists Bill Hewison, Ed McLachlan (above) and Mike Williams are the stars of a new show opening later this month at the Chris Beetles Gallery in London. The selling exhibition features work from Punch itself, alongside cartoons published in Private Eye, The Spectator and elsewhere. See the Chris Beetles site for more details. Annie Tempest, the cartoonist behind the […]
Mad about Bateman
H.M. Bateman: The Man Who Went Mad on Paper opens at the Cartoon Museum in London next Wednesday (April 11). The exhibition covers all aspects of Bateman’s career, from his early theatrical subjects to his famous The Man Who cartoons. It also includes examples of wordless strips, sketchbooks and other private works that are exhibited here for the first […]
Cartoonist ambassador
Andy Davey, the Sun cartoonist and Procartoonists.org member, tells us about his recent experience as an ambassador for British cartoons: I was recently interviewed by Olena Gnes, a foreign news correspondent at the Ukrainian station Inter TV. She was interested in presenting a piece on the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations and was looking for an interesting […]
Shrewsbury cartoon festival 2012
Not long to wait Submission to festival exhibition Flights of Fancy © The Surreal McCoy