Foghorn cracks up
Foghorn mixes his metaphors
Our old friend Foghorn muses on cultural differences in the trade of image making.
Foghorn: The prehistory
In the second of our weekly series about the Foghorn take a dip into the prehistory of werd, sorry, word and picture cartooning in the UK. We will be publishing a new one at 5pm next Thursday.
Foghorn goes forth once more
Regular readers might recall our previous life as the Bloghorn, the digital relative of the old-time printed magazine Foghorn. This legendary creature is a sage about the cartoon artform that our members exhibit, so we are pleased to welcome his weekly strip to the Procartoonists.org blog.
Flying to Shrewsbury 2012
Pete Dredge submitted this charming image to the selection committee for the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2012. Will it make the cut for the big exhibition? The only sure way to know, is to go! Read on for details. –>Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival starts on 5th April, opening of with ‘Flights of Fancy’. The weekend for ‘Cartoonists […]
The artist as cartoonist
Review: David Shrigley: Brain Activity at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London A vexed question of categorisation arises when it comes to the artist David Shrigley: Is he a cartoonist? He and many art critics appear reluctant to use the term, but there’s no doubt that black and white line drawings, many of which are designed […]
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 […]
Occupied cartoonists
Cartoonists are visual journalists. Please discuss, with reference to Portraits of the Occupation, US investigative cartoonist Sharon Rosenzweig and this fine round up of art from the ongoing global protests at Cartoon Movement. Drawing ©Sharon Rosenzweig The Bloghorn is made on behalf of the UK Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation
A degree of ignorance about drawing
If you have been following this story you will be unsurprised that Bloghorn thinks comics, and cartooning in all its forms, are all too readily undervalued in the UK. It is more acceptable in the cultures of Japan, the US and across Europe to consider the narrative techniques and visual artistry employed by commercial artists […]