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February 25, 2013 in Events, General, News

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We are very pleased to be able to list the cartoonist attendees at this year’s Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival.

They are: Huw Aaron, Charlie Adlard, Dean Alston, Nathan Ariss, Ian Baker, Rupert Besley, Steve Best (Bestie), Andrew Birch, John Clark (Brick), Matthew Buck (Hack), Steve Chadburn, Jonathan Cusick, Wilbur Dawbarn, Pete Dredge, Noel Ford, Clive Goddard, Tim Harries, John Landers, Alexander Matthews, Rob Murray, Chichi Parish, Roger Penwill, Helen Pointer, John Roberts, Royston Robertson, Chris Ryder, Bill Stott, Cathy Simpson, Rich Skipworth and The Surreal McCoy. The festival patrons Libby Purves and Alex Lester will also be attending.

We will be publishing details of the itinerary over the next few weeks ahead of the festival’s first events. The main weekend for the live cartooning and other public events is 19-21 April. Get it into your diaries!

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by Matt Buck

Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2013: dates announced

September 3, 2012 in General, News

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.

Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival @ procartoonists.org

The festival exhibitions will be displayed at venues throughout the town during April and May and will then tour museums in the area. The theme will be Time which follows, appropriately enough, Flying, from last year.

You can look back at coverage of last year’s festival here.

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by Blog Team

Personal Bests: Closing ceremony

August 13, 2012 in Events, News

We now return you to our regularly scheduled cynicism …

And so a generation was inspired, to spend all day watching television. Now we must make sure we remember the legacy of the London 2012 Games, and perhaps switch over to The Jeremy Kyle Show on ITV.

This is the last of our Personal Bests cartoons, originally seen at last year’s Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival. Browse the portfolios for more great cartoons.

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by Blog Team

Personal Bests: Dressage

August 8, 2012 in General, News

The performance aspects of the games make the spectacle. Nice horse boots! More Personal Bests, first displayed at the annual Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival.

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by Blog Team

Good and bad news at the Games

August 6, 2012 in General, News

The Olympics has presented a problem for hard-bitten, cynical cartoonists, because it has turned out to be something of a Good News Story.

We’ve been keeping an eye on the very latest Olympics cartoons – as well as presenting the Personal Bests exhibition from the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival – and present a round-up here. Be warned though, some of this is very much #NSFW. Or, to use the old parlance, a bit rude in places.

So while the cartoons in the run-up to the Games were a touch cynical …

And, er, very cynical … [Is this is the #NSFW bit? – Ed]

… as the Games got under way, they became a bit more positive.

Most of the cartoons seen here are by Procartoonists.org members. Don’t forget to check out the Procartoonists.org portfolios.

And while we are considering post-event reaction and interviews …

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by Blog Team

Personal Bests: The Olympic Flame

July 31, 2012 in General, News

Personal Bests cartoon © Rosie Brooks @ procartoonists.org

"They called him the Olympic Flame because he never, ever went out" © Rosie Brooks @ Procartoonists.org

You can enjoy more of the Personal Bests exhibition from the Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival here on the blog for the duration of the Games – or explore more terrific work inside our membership portfolios (the best for the season at anytime).

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Personal Bests: On the road

July 30, 2012 in General, News

Speed cameras are probably less of a problem for cycling road races in Britain than the rain, but that didn’t hold back the British cyclist Lizzie Armitstead. This cartoon, by Royston Robertson, is part of the Personal Bests exhibition, originally seen at the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, which we’ll be showcasing throughout the 2012 Olympics. Browse the portfolios for more great work by these cartoonists.

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Personal Bests: Olympics 2012

July 27, 2012 in General, News

In the spirit of breaking the rules where possible we’ll start with something that isn’t from the exhibition at all. Our thanks to the cartoonist George Licurici, from Romania, for a charming view about the start of the events from well beyond these shores.

London 2012 cartoon © George Licurici for @procartoonists.org

And, delayed only briefly, we are pleased to start a virtual exhibition: Personal Bests. Enjoy this first post below by Clive Goddard and look out for regular updates throughout the sixteen days of the Games.

Olympics Cartoon Personal Bests @ procartoonists.org

Today’s Personal Bests cartoon was originally shown at the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival. Browse the portfolios for more great work by the exhibition cartoonists.

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by Blog Team

Personal Bests: Olympics in cartoons

July 25, 2012 in General, News

The London Olympics are here and throughout the event we will be giving you the cartoons from Personal Bests, the main exhibition from the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival of 2011, which had the sporting theme.

Procartoonists.org Olympics 2012 Personal Bests Cartoons. All artwork is © of the named artist

Shown at UK Professional Cartoonists' Organisation: Procartoonists.org

The selling exhibition was a popular hit and the cartoons have been in a travelling exhibition since. We’ll be posting regular sporting laughs here during the course of the games, starting this Friday.

And of course, you can see more great work by the cartoonists who showed at the exhibition in our portfolios.

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Shrewsbury cartoon: On the road

July 16, 2012 in General, News

Cartoon_RAF_Cosford_Jubilee @procartoonists.org

Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2013 promotion at RAF Cosford @procartoonists.org

Regular readers will know we have a longtime relationship with the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, the UK’s sole event devoted to the arts of the cartoonist, so we were pleased to see the show going on the road as a part of this year’s Diamond Jubilee.

A team of Noel Ford, Roger Penwill, Steve Bright, John Roberts and Jonathan Cusick, pictured, entertained at an event at RAF Cosford last week.

Jonathan told us:

It wouldn’t surprise me if our stall was genuinely one of the most popular in the hangar, though a drawing was certainly one of the more personal souvenirs available. Once HM had left, the afternoon became progressively crazier. It was a busy but brilliant event.

Regrettably, no one was able to get close enough for a speedy drawing of the monarch because the queues for cartoons and caricatures were too busy. But when you’ve go pre-existing portraits like the one from Trog (Wally Fawkes), below, who is to worry?