The Round Up

Kasia Kowalska writes: Fancy a spot of 18th century roistering? The caricaturist Adrian Teal can invite you to club nights with a difference with his Historic Punch. He has also revealed the story behind the Georgian John Bull, in History Today. John Bull was actually invented by a Scot but he proved a much loved […]

How ya doin’?

Hey. How ya doin’? can be offensive. Find out how and why might this might be so. Readers will be unsurprised that we have been around such subjects before and won’t be surprised that the matter is also conflated with the local politics of the UK. If you wish to offer a view please do, in […]

The Round-up

Kasia Kowalska writes: It’s clearly not an impossible task to pick your all-time favourite cartoons but Bob Mankoff of The New Yorker has had a go at the advanced level of difficulty. You can see some of our members tried it once too with Ten Great Cartoonists. Elsewhere, the admirable Joe Gordon takes on the might of […]

Everyone’s a cartoonist nowadays

Regular readers of this blog will be unsurprised to learn that automation has struck once more with Google receiving a patent for the ‘‘self-creation of comic strips in social networks and other communications’’. The advertising giant is following in the footsteps of other digital toolmakers such as Bitstrips. Digital automation of cartoon formats for display is inevitable in […]

Happy Christmas Eve from Procartoonists.org

With the UK labouring under a series of storms or Atlantic depressions, it’s nice to imagine our Australian friends traditional summer celebration. Maybe we can get some traditional cheer in other fashions later on.    

The Round up

Kasia Kowalska writes: The Winter Solstice is behind us and the traditional festive fun is in full swing. Also high on the agenda is freedom of speech after the London School of Economics apologised to two students who had been banned from wearing T-shirts featuring cartoons of the prophet Mohammed and Jesus Christ. Twitter was […]

Restaurant has great taste in cartoons

Andy Davey gorges on a fine selection of cartoon morsels There is a rather nice restaurant in a picture-perfect situation, hidden inside a particularly ugly example of Sixties architectural brutalism on the banks of the river in Cambridge. It’s the on the first floor of the University Centre. It’s called the Riverside Restaurant, but don’t tell anyone […]

Opinion: Cartoonists and a new world

The internet is a perfect medium for cartoons. Images can look much more striking on a backlit screen than they ever did in muddy print. So the news that The Sun was dropping Andy Davey’s weekday editorial cartoon slot just as it finally attempted a serious transition to digital first publication is ironic. I am […]

The sky is falling in

News that a satellite is descending to earth in an uncontrolled fashion reminds us that there’s nothing new under the sun – as these cartoons from Martin Minton – A cartoon novel by Ken Pyne show. Ken told us: Funny, I was only thinking of that book a couple of days ago in Waterstones. When it […]