Bill Stott’s Christmas ad vent
© Bill Stott PCO Chair, Bill Stott, writes: Less than a month to go to Christmas. Hmm. I have to admit that Christmas doesn’t have me jumping up and down with excitement. If you’ve only got a small family – I have – and what few there are are spread far and wide, all those […]
PCO “Gagged” exhibition workshop
© Rich Johnston The Surreal McCoy writes: Last Saturday myself and Jeremy Banx led a cartoon workshop at Westminster Reference Library for an eager group of participants. As part of our “Gagged” exhibition (which closes Friday 1 December) the theme was censorship and repression of free speech. As you can see here a very high […]
PCO’s “Gagged” Cartoon Exhibition
Photo © Mika Schick The Surreal McCoy writes: Last night saw the private view of our Gagged exhibition at Westminster Reference Library in central London. Thanks to the generosity and imagination of PCO members it was an excellent showing of very different takes on the themes of censorship and freedom of speech. Representatives of Index […]
2017 Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning
This year the winner of CRNI’s award is cartoonist and activist Ramón Esono Ebalé who is currently in detention in Equatorial Guinea. His work has been very critical of the current regime and he was arrested during a visit back to his home country from Paraguay where he currently lives. The award was made at the annual […]
Political Cartoon of the Year Awards 2017
© Will McPhail Ellwood Atfield host the awards again, and they will take place at St. John’s Smith Square, Westminster on Thursday 23rd November. The guest of honour will be George Osborne, once the victim of and now advocate for political cartooning. (In his new role as editor of The Evening Standard he re-introduced the […]