Political Cartoon Awards 2019 – The Results

The winners! Peter Schrank standing in for Peter Brookes, Photo © Kasia Kowalska
 Clive Goddard writes: Another year of backslapping and mingling with strangers has been and gone at the glitzy Poltical Cartoon Awards. This time the whole event was forced to decamp from its usual palatial venue due to ‘the impending election’ causing everyone to cram […]

Who pocketed the cartoon awards?

Clive Goddard writes: The Political Cartoon Awards have been running for 18 years now, but this year there was something new. The event takes place in a large, swanky hall in central London with subdued coloured lighting, tasty little unidentified canapes being offered by attractive young people and more free booze than anyone has time […]

Cartoon Awards 2011

New in from our friends at The UK Cartoon Museum are the results of their annual cartoon awards. Strip Cartoon Award to Charles Peattie and Mark Warren for Celeb – a  long running feature of Private Eye magazine Pocket Award to Neil Bennett – of The Times Joke Award to Neil Kerber – of The […]

Prize guys

On Sunday, the winner of the fourth Cape/Observer Graphic Short Story prize was announced as Stephen Collins. His story – In Room 208 – won him £1,000 and a full reprint of the tale in the Observer newspaper. Collins was chosen by a jury that included comic historian and organiser of the Comica festival Paul Gravett, […]