Shooting Cartoonists at the Seaside

We’re grateful to David Cross for sending us this wonderful watercolour of cartoonists in action at the Herne Bay Cartoon Festival. Click the image to enlarge and see how many cartoonists, and other great details, you can spot. David, who curated the Outrage! exhibition at the Seaside Gallery, called the painting Shooting Cartoonists at the […]

Herne Bay: the exhibitions

Three exhibitions were held at the Herne Bay Cartoon Festival this year. Private views for two of those took place on 1 August, the day before the festival’s main live-drawing event. Photos by Kasia Kowalska and Gerard Whyman. Lines in the Sand, the main festival exhibition, featured work by more than 50 artists. There were […]

Outrage! First Herne Bay Cartoon Festival exhibition opens

The exhibition Outrage! A brief history of offensive cartoons is now on at the Seaside Museum in Herne Bay, Kent, the first event in the third Herne Bay Cartoon Festival. It includes works from the British Cartoon Archive in Canterbury and features David Low, the infamous Oz schoolkids’ edition, a cartoon Private Eye didn’t dare […]