The Round-up

Kasia Kowalska writes: The exhibition Spitting Image: From Start to Finish opens at the Cartoon Museum in London tomorrow (26 February) – 30 years to the day since the TV series burst into our living rooms and put satire back at the heart of British comedy. The BFI is also joining in the celebrations with an […]

Bloghorn Goes Global – Cartooning News from Around the World

New Cartoon Museum set to open. Angoulême, in the Poitou-Charentes region of western France and home to the recent International Comics Festival (as reported here) is to get a 1,300 sq m museum dedicated to the history and practice of creating cartoons and comics. The museum is planned to open in June, when entrance fees […]

Expert's angle on Angoulême

The journalist Paul Gravett, a leading expert on comics and graphic novels, has a report on the Angoulême International Comics Festival, which is now in its 36th year, in the Books section of The Guardian. Angoulême, a city in the Charente region of southwest France, is synonymous with comics, says Gravett, like Glyndebourne for opera […]