Drawing in the air
Technology moves on all the time and there is no reason drawing shouldn’t be part of change. For evidence, the crowd sourced fundraising platform Kickstarter is currently hosting a novel adaptation of the 3D printing technology from a startup called WobbbleWorks. You can watch a short video about what their 3D pen can do below. It […]
Cartoons – not so static after all
It is sometimes assumed that cartooning is a purely static medium. One of our members, Robert Duncan, shows this isn’t the case in this three-minute plus video celebrating the work of the writer and cartoonist Edward Lear. If you have seen any other good examples of cartooning as a moving medium please post them into the comments […]
“It doesn’t show signs of stopping” – UK snow cartoons
The snow may have been melting in some places but with some more forecast at the time of posting, we offer a selection of wintery cartoons from Procartoonists.org members. See if you can spot the Snowman riff. So much for a trip out to an art show. Another hardy annual is the theme about transport. […]
Opinion: Illustration is easier than cartooning
When it was suggested by the editor that I should write a piece to the statement, “Illustration is easier than cartooning”. I thought he also ought to reverse the notion and ask an illustrator too. Trouble is, I’m not an illustrator so know little of their strange and arcane ways. Actually, that’s not entirely true. […]
The end of The Cartoonist
One-time Fleet Street Institution The Cartoonist pub is to close early in 2013. Once part of the thriving print industry culture in the area, the pub is to be demolished as a part of a redevelopment at New Street Square and Shoe Lane. The Cartoonist had a long association with the trade and its associated […]
Christmas is a time for sharing
We are taught that Christmas is a time for sharing and this habit has been institutionalised with the gifts of the social media. If you will forgive the spirit of “Bah humbug’”, we spotted a revealing story about what social-media sharing can mean for those image makers who choose to use such free services. The picture-sharing […]
The added-value cartoonist
Noel Ford writes: It’s ironic that quite often corporate clients seem more aware of the added value that a cartoonist can provide than those clients from the entertainment media of magazines and newspapers do. The use of a cartoon, or cartoon illustration, is well recognised by those in business as a way to make or […]
Leveson and more cartoonists
The post Leveson debate rumbles on, with much talk of regulation, self-regulation and the slighty painful sounding statutory underpinning. So, following on from our earlier round-up of Leveson cartoons, we present further takes on the media story of the year, starting with Morten Morland in The Times. Steve Bright in The Sun has a typically […]
Leveson and the cartoonists
Cartooning has long been associated with the print industry* so it is only natural that the artists have been interested in the Leveson Inquiry report into the Culture, Media and Ethics of the Press. It was delivered yesterday, as Dave Brown of The Independent notes. Bob Moran in The Daily Telegraph imagines Lord Justice Leveson […]