Performance cartooning in New York
We have told you many times about the Battle of the Cartoonists, part of the Big Draw and have reported on performance cartooning at the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival. Now, news reaches us of a performance event in New York, above, featuring three teams of cartoonists from The New Yorker coming up with improvised drawings based […]
Scenes from a mall: Big Draw 2010
A burst of British Weather meant that Saturday’s Big Draw events on the South Bank in London had to be swiftly moved, from the open-air space of The Scoop, next to City Hall, to the nearby Hay’s Galleria. The cartoonists’ spirits were not dampened by this turn of events, however, even though the move meant […]
Big Draw sketched out
The Campaign for Drawing has announced details of the launch event for this year’s Big Draw festival, which is called Make Your Mark on the Future. The London launch takes place over the weekend of October 22 and 23 on the South Bank, between London Bridge and Tower Bridge. Highlights will include free cartoon workshops […]
New drawing website folds
The Campaign for Drawing – the group behind such events as the Big Draw and the Battle of the Cartoonists – have launched a website to encourage the general public to get their pencils out called Draw and Fold Over. The site is an update of the Exquisite Corpse parlour game, where the player first […]
Bloghorn at St Just
PCOer Simon Ellinas has a report on the grand-daddy of European cartoon festivals – St Just le Martel.
Bloghorn victorious in Battle
After several years as the plucky underdog, the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation’s team, this year rebranded as Team Bloghorn, has finally emerged victorious from the annual Battle of the Cartoonists. Our team came joint first with Private Eye in the Big Draw event in which four teams completed a large banner on the theme of “Now […]
Bloghorn at The Big Draw 2009
Teams of participants from the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation who run Bloghorn will be participating in the annual Big Draw next weekend. Cartoonists Clive Goddard, Andy Bunday, Pete Dredge and Nathan Ariss will be representing the trade in the Battle of the Cartoonists. Colleagues Tim Harries, and Cathy Simpson will also be a running a series […]
Team Bloghorn announced!
Clive Goddard, Andy Bunday and Nathan Ariss will be representing the PCO in the form of Team Bloghorn at this year’s Big Draw Battle of the Cartoonists challenge on Saturday 12th September, 2-5pm at the Idea Generation Gallery, 11 Chance Street, London E2 7JB (map). Team Bloghorn is understood to be up against Dave Brown’s […]
The PCO at the Big Draw
PCO members will be taking part in “Transports of Delight” at St Pancras International Station in London on Saturday (October 18). The event is part of the annual, month-long Big Draw campaign, which is designed to get the nation drawing. The PCO will be running cartoon workshops at the event and taking part in the […]