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July 30, 2012 in General, News
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After qualifying for the final for the first time in almost 100 years, the moment has arrived for Lewis Smith and the British gymnasts – it coincides with the Cross-country bit of the Three Day Eventing currently on in Greenwich Park.
by Blog Team
December 7, 2011 in Comment, Events, News
Private Eye was presented with the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation Award for Services to Cartooning last night.
A small delegation from the PCO descended on the Eye’s Soho offices to present the award to Nick Newman, cartoonist and writer at the magazine, above, on behalf of the Editor, Ian Hislop.
Accepting the award, Nick said that the Eye had always been a staunch supporter of cartoons, from the early days when it would run two or three Willie Rushton cartoons to the present day which sees dozens of gags and strips in each issue.
Noting that the PCO gave the Award for Services to Cartooning last year to the Church Times, he added: “Obviously the Church Times is a much more humorous magazine …”
Pete Dredge, PCO member and regular Eye contributor, handed over the award, which he described as “a stylish, crystal-fashioned engraved paperweight recognising Lord Gnome’s 50 years of supporting the best of British cartooning and cartoonists”.
He told the Bloghorn: “It is understood that the paperweight will be on display amongst the Eye’s other trophies, rather than holding down the ever-growing pile of cartoon submissions on the Editor’s desk.”
The PCO thanks the Eye for accepting the award, and appreciates the fact that the Ed did not say “Sorry not to use. Thanks for sending.”
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December 14, 2011 in Comment
Cartoonists have long adopted the technique of writing about the future or the past as a good way of talking about the present day.
But PCO member Adrian Teal is adapting this artifice with a crowd-funded project on the history of 18th century Britain, which he explains in a short video pitch.
Adrian is working with the Unbound book site which provides a platform for authors to pitch their products to would-be book buyers for self-funding.
His Gin Lane Gazette – an 18th century version of Heat magazine – follows a similar path to The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe, the news cartoon that appears weekly in the digital Telegraph.
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