The Round-up

  A new documentary is being planned about anarchic TV icon Frank Sidebottom (aka Chris Sievey). In the guise of Frank, Sievey contributed strips to Oink! in the late 1980s. Director Steve Sullivan says the film “will cover Chris and Frank’s whole career, including focusing on his work as a comic creator and illustrator.” Sullivan […]

Bloghornery – June 2010

Things the Foghorn saw this month… Musical comedian and sometime Oink! cartoonist Frank Sidebottom’s creator Chris Sievey has died. New museum for cartoon illustrator Heath Robinson has opened in Pinner, North London. The US comic strip Little Orphan Annie (probably better known over here for the musical version, Annie) has finally come to the end of […]