The Round-up

A recent New Yorker cartoon by Mick Stevens, above, led to a temporary ban on the magazine’s Facebook page this week, because it apparently broke the social network’s decency rules. Bob Mankoff, the New Yorker’s cartoon editor, looks in detail at the supposed offence on his blog. The latest collection of Punch artwork focuses on […]

Foggy and der yoof

Our anthropomorphic friend launches himself upon the hard world of educashun.

Cartoonists and freedom of speech

The late editorial cartoonist Doug Marlette described the job of the cartoonist as follows: “Good cartoonists are also the point men for the First Amendment, testing the boundaries of free speech.” In his home country of the United States, the first amendment to the national constitution famously guarantees this right. It also does in India, […]

More than Pooh and Mr Toad

E.H. Shepard is still best known for his illustrations for the Winnie-the-Pooh books and The Wind in the Willows, but a new exhibition aims to show that there was a lot more to his work than those much-loved drawings. The Other E.H. Shepard, which is at the Chris Beetles Gallery in London from this Wednesday […]

The Round-up

Above: Jamie Hewlett, the cartoonist behind Tank Girl and Gorillaz, talks about how absorbing drawing can be, and about his own desire to keep improving. (Thanks to Tim Harries for bringing this to our attention.) Now that Alex Hallatt‘s Arctic Circle strip is five years old, she is celebrating the milestone by releasing an ebook […]

Fog on the high ground

In which our anthropomorphic Foghorn considers the horrors inherent in the role of the editorial or comment cartoonist.

After Gin Lane: Giving it all away

Following From Gin Lane to the Information Superhighway we see that there are cartoonists who are positively embracing this new era of social media and sharing. Webcomics and viral cartoons are a couple of the ways that you can effectively give your work away to the web but get paid back by other means. Successful webcomics […]

Battle lines drawn for The Big Draw

The Big Draw 2012 takes place throughout October and will be launched at the V&A in London on September 30 with an event called Big Draw, Big Make. The day sees the return of the Battle of the Cartoonists, with seven teams of cartoonists providing a comic, contemporary response to seven tapestries based on cartoons (the […]

Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2013: dates announced

The tenth Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival will run during April and May next year. The central weekend of festival cartoon activities – Cartoonists Live – will be Friday 19 April to Sunday 21 April, with a full day of activity on the Sunday. This is a change to previous years where activities have finished by the early afternoon. The […]