Cartoonists get stylish
Clive Goddard writes: If there’s one thing cartoonists know about it’s style. Famously dapper, well-dressed types-about-town, they constantly turn heads and the occasional stomach. This video, however, is all about their drawing styles. Whether that be simple, complex, colourful, sparse, messy, splattery or obsessionally neat and tidy we cover all bases. Some of us also […]
Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival Exhibitions 2022
Roger Penwill reports from Shropshire’s medieval county town: For its 19th year the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival is represented by a collection of three exhibitions. At the Bear Steps Gallery, the festival’s spiritual home since the inaugural festival in 2004, are the Festival themed exhibition “Look and Learn” and an exhibition of work by the popular cartoonist Noel […]
Oh We Did Like To Be Beside The Seaside!
In the ‘old normal’ this weekend would have seen cartoonists flocking like seagulls to the wonderful Herne Bay Cartoon Festival. With this year’s event c19ncelled here’s a trip down memory lane with the fabulous posters from previous years and links to the festival holiday snaps. 2013 Poster by © Hunt Emerson The Herne Bay event started […]
Procartoonists bag couple of CATs
The Cartoon Art Trust Awards, an annual fundraiser for the Cartoon Museum in London, were held last week, and this year’s winners, including two Procartoonists.org members were as follows: Joke cartoonist Kathryn Lamb, above, (Private Eye, The Oldie, The Spectator) Strip cartoonist Steve Bell for “If …” (The Guardian) Pocket cartoonist Banx (aka Jeremy Banks, Financial Times) Caricaturist James […]