Opinion: The postcard’s future

Rupert Besley delivers part two of his article on the humble cartoon postcard. You can read part one here Postcards and cartoons are the perfect marriage, the dream team, two forms of relative ephemera, each made for the other. Both are finding life tough at present, as old-style print gets edged out by new electronic media, and […]

Opinion: The postcard is not dead

Procartoonists member Rupert Besley takes a look at a much-loved old form for cartooning: the postcard In 1899 a Norwegian cruise ship doing the coastline despatched 20,000 postcards in the course of one trip*. The unfortunate crewman charged with postmarking each stamp suffered blisters to the hand. In 1903 the British alone sent 600 million postcards […]

Welcome back to ‘obscene’ postcards

Bloghorn is pleased to report the recent Margate cartoon postcard exhibition will be back on display in the British Cartoon Archive Gallery, at the University of Kent, from 24 September. This time it will run for six weeks. The original exhibition ran for only ten days but will get a longer run in nearby Canterbury. Details here and […]