Artist of the Month – Neil Dishington

Bloghorn finished our interview with Artist of the Month, Neil Dishington ‘Dish’, by asking about his thoughts on the future of making jokes in drawing. I hope there is one. I used to advise the kids I taught to ‘go for it’ otherwise you will regret not giving it a go. I still meet up […]

Artist of the Month – Neil Dishington

Bloghorn asked February’s Artist of the Month, Neil Dishington which other cartoon work had helped to inspire him: I was influenced by David McKee and Mike Williams…his recent exhibition at the Cartoon Museum (and the Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival) was a real gem. Larry (the late Terence Parkes) of course and a few artists for […]

Artist of the Month: Neil Dishington

PCO Artist of the Month, Neil Dishington – “Dish” – explains to Bloghorn how he creates his loose graphic style: As with most of my generation I used a dip pen to start with, but could never find the right nib or a free-flowing ink. Thank goodness for fibre tip pens which I use now […]

Artist of the Month: Neil Dishington

Bloghorn’s Artist of the Month for February is Neil Dishington – he signs his work as Dish. Dish has been widely published in Private Eye, The Spectator, Punch, The Daily Express, The Guardian, The Oldie and in many trade and professional publications including Financial Advisor, Medican Publishing, Save and Prosper and Scottish Banker. He specialises […]

Cartooning in the media: It's not all bad news

PCOer Royston Robertson says we cartoonists need to lighten up about media coverage of our profession There’s no doubt that cartoons are enjoying an unusually high profile in the British media at the moment. We’ve seen acres of coverage for the launch of new kids’ comic The DFC (left), the 70th anniversary of The Beano […]

Cartoon review: Phill Jupitus on Radio 4

Strip by comedian and wannabe cartoonist Phill Jupitus PCOer Neil Dishington reviews Comic Love, Phill Jupitus’s BBC Radio Four show in praise of newspaper comic strips Apparently Phill Jupitus is a thwarted cartoonist. Aren’t we all? I should admit that he is not my favourite comedian, and I am not a particular fan of comic […]

New Foghorn cartoon magazine

A shiny new issue of the Foghorn cartoon magazine is hitting the streets imminently – and a subscription to the bi-monthly feast of drawing and jokes (no, really, we got advised we should say this sort of thing) is available via the PCO big blue Foghorn button you can see immediately to the right hand-side […]

Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival – The Big Boarders

Kipper Williams of The Guardian is one of this year’s PCO Big Boarders at the festival. Above is one of Kipper’s submissions to the “But is it Art?” exhibition, which is already open in the town. The full list of cartoonist Big Boarders drawing at this year’s festival, over the weekend of Friday 18th and […]

The sex appeal of the creative mind

PCOer Neil Dishington, spots, paraphrases and even quotes from an item from The Times newspaper, as follows; “The sex appeal of the creative thinker was in part because the possession of a lively creative mind is considered an attractive feature in either sex.” “These lucky people started with the advantage of being considered attractive before […]