Success for Shrewsbury festival

The Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, which took place at the weekend, drew huge crowds and was deemed a success by all involved. And it has already been given a major boost for next year. The Shropshire Star reports that the festival has just won a £2,000 grant for next year’s event. Every penny will count as […]

Shrewsbury 2014: Where to start?

Our first report from this weekend’s Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival is a selection of photos by Mika Schick showing several of the cartoonists starting out on the Saturday morning. We’ll have more pictures and words from Shrewsbury this week.

Cartoon festival this weekend

The main Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival events take place this Saturday (though there is a workshop by PCO member Wilbur Dawbarn on Friday) and include live drawing in the town square, with the Big Boards, Humurals, the Melodrawma, caricaturing and reverse caricaturing, as well as talks and workshops. Click those links to see pictures and videos of […]

The Round-up

The BBC has been looking at how political cartoonists in Northern Ireland coped with covering the Troubles. You can read the article and see an episode of BBC Northern Ireland’s The Arts Show (until 28 April) here. Meanwhile, in the Republic of Ireland, The Irish Times has apologised for a cartoon about priests by Martyn […]

Cartoon festival exhibition opens

The exhibition With a Song in My Art opens at the Bear Steps Gallery in Shrewsbury today (21 April). This cartoon was submitted for the music-themed exhibition by the Procartoonists.org member Glenn Marshall. The show is the first event in the 2014 Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival. The main Cartoonists Live day is this Saturday (26 April) and there’s […]

An acquaintance to remember

This year is both the 15th anniversary of the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio and of political devolution in Scotland. We’ve organised a new touring exhibition entitled The Auld Acquaintance, taking our cue from Rabbie Burns’ Auld Lang Syne, sung whenever folk leave one chapter of their life behind and start another. Our call for contributions […]

The Round-up

Kasia Kowalska and Royston Robertson write: Cartoonists and alcohol are often linked, and now one of the UK’s best known political cartoonists, Gerald Scarfe, has a bar named after him at the Rosewood Hotel in Holborn, London. The Spectator has more and the Telegraph has a video in which the cartoonist talks about the drawings on […]

Cartoonist does the maths

Procartoonists.org member The Surreal McCoy has drawn cartoons for a new book that claims, among many other things, to reveal the world’s favourite number. Alex Through The Looking Glass, by the mathematician Alex Bellos, was featured on Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday: listen to John Humphrys struggling with the maths here (at 2hrs 55mins). […]

Festival cartoon: The anticipation …

The Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival is just a few weeks away now, with the main exhibition opening on 21 April and the Cartoonists Live day on 26 April. More details are now on the official website. You can also download a PDF of the festival leaflet here. This cartoon was submitted for this year’s music-themed exhibition […]