St Just for laughs

Simon Ellinas writes: I was lucky enough to be able to visit the Salon International Du Dessins de Presse et d’Humor at St Just-le-Martel in France. Impressively installed in a brand new building on the outskirts of this small satellite of the city of Limoges, this cartoon festival has been running for 33 years. The […]

A look back at St Just

Terry Anderson reports from the 32nd  St Just-le-Martel cartoon festival, near Limoges in France. I was making my eighth trip to the event. (Ed adds: That’s probably more than Charles De Gaulle managed) I was delighted to learn the main exhibition space has been named the Espace Loup after an artist who has given an enormous […]

The Round-up

Raymond Briggs – author and illustrator of The Snowman, When The Wind Blows, Fungus The Bogeyman and many others – has been made the first entrant to the British Comic Awards Hall of Fame. Cartoonist Adam Cadwell explains why here. Briggs himself is excited about a Snowman sequel, set to air on Channel 4 this […]

The female cartoonist who isn't

The world of cartooning is dominated by men, and political cartoons in particular seem to be almost exclusively a male preserve. So there was much interest when a new political cartoonist called Rachel Gold (cartoon portrait, right) emerged in Austria, seemingly out of nowhere. But all was not as it seemed. Rachel Gold is a […]

Daryl Cagle – a response

Bloghorn asked cartoonist Rod McKie for a opinion piece following our recent post about US cartoonist Daryl Cagle’s controversial view of non-new world cartoonists. Our thanks to Rod for agreeing. The following is an edited extract of his full submission and Bloghorn has added the links. I do a lot of my cartooning work in […]

You say tomato, we say cartoonist …

Bloghorn must take issue with the US political cartoonist Daryl Cagle over a blog post in which he talks about the “cultural” difference between cartoons created in America and those from the rest of the world. Cagle, who also syndicates cartoons through the Political Cartoonists Index argues that there is a ‘‘BIG cultural gap’’ between […]

Like a cartoon? Always ask before taking

A cartoon by Daryl Cagle which was re-labelled by the user Any professional cartoonist will tell you it’s annoying when they hear that one of their cartoons has been used without permission, but it’s doubly annoying when the person doing the taking has made ‘‘amendments’’. So it must have been, er, triply annoying when this […]

Apple U-turn on cartoonist's iPhone app

Since we reported last Wedneday (November 11) that Apple rejected an iPhone application by MAD magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond, which featured caricatures of members of the US Congress, it seems the company has done a U-turn and approved it. Apple had claimed that the app “contains content that ridicules public figures” and is in violation […]

Frequently answered questions

“I have a great idea for a cartoon! Want to hear it?”“No.” … US political cartoonist Daryl Cagle takes on the questions that people always ask cartoonists. Some of it is very specific to Cagle’s site, but much of it is universal and very funny. Here’s another favourite: “When are you going to stop bashing […]