Gillray’s timeless cartoons
Procartoonists.org member Pete Dredge was interviewed on the subject of the political cartoonist James Gillray for the BBC’s Sunday Politics Show in the East Midlands: Watch it here Pete visits a new exhibition of Gillray’s work at the Nottingham Contemporary gallery and talks about how the 18th-century cartoonist’s work strikes a chord with modern audiences with […]
Putting a voice to the face
We told you in March about William Rudling, the cartoonist and Procartoonists.org member who is one of four finalists in Radio 4’s So You Want to be a Scientist? He recently took his Faces and Voices experiment to the Bang Goes the Theory roadshow in Sheffield. Here is his report: The warm welcome and friendly support […]
Dear Procartoonists …
Sir — Before you cartoonist johnnies start attacking those least able to defend themselves and who are presently enduring all manner of innuendo and slur at the hands of the leftist lackey Lord Leveson, I would ask you to take a moment to reflect upon the Great British Freedoms which are at stake here. As I understand it, […]
The Round-up
The Iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraye has been sentenced to 25 lashes after an MP took offence at a caricature. The Guardian has more on the story here, and fellow cartoonists, including Procartoonists.org members Martin Rowson, above, and Clive Collins, have reacted with pictures of their own. Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor at The New Yorker, has […]
Foghorn: The prehistory
In the second of our weekly series about the Foghorn take a dip into the prehistory of werd, sorry, word and picture cartooning in the UK. We will be publishing a new one at 5pm next Thursday.
What nonsense! A tribute to Lear
A group of cartoonists and illustrators have got together to pay tribute to Edward Lear, who was born 200 years ago on May 12. Forty artists have created the show Happy Birthday Edward Lear in honour of the writer and artist who was famed for his nonsense verse, including The Owl and the Pussycat. The […]
Drawing the tragedy
The Greek cartoonist Michael Kountouris delivers the second part of his opinions after the elections in that country. You can read the first part here. Let’s return to the crisis. It is not only economic but also political and social, but mainly it is a systemic crisis, a crisis of values and principles, a crisis […]
The Round-up
If you are a fan of funding crowd-sourced books we commend the following projects from two Procartoonists.org members: Stevyn Colgan‘s Connectoscope and the caricaturist Adrian Teal, who is still raising funds for his Gin Lane Gazette. You can contribute to funding these projects at the Unbound site. Terry Mosher, a Canadian political cartoonist best known by his pen […]
A Greek tragedy
The cartoonist Michael Kountouris shares his opinions from Greece in advance of this weekend’s elections: I have tried many times to write about the situation in Greece. And each time, after writing a few lines, I stopped, feeling confused, disappointed, sad and angry about all the things I had to recall and describe. At this […]