Video: Matt’s favourite cartoonists

A treat to start the week. Matt Pritchett, pocket cartoonist at The Telegraph Media Group talks about his favourite cartoonists in this short video. Bloghorn is made on behalf of the UK Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation

Round-up: What the Bloghorn saw

Rob Murray writes: Following an MP-generated controversy earlier in the year, when the University of Dundee launched the first mainstream postgraduate course in comic studies, student Laura Sneddon has helpfully begun blogging about the MLitt on a weekly basis for Comicbook resources. Pulitzer-Prize winning US cartoonist Clay Bennett gave a talk this week in which […]

Cartoonist talent search continues

Congratulations to Steve Bright, one of our members, who has also made the final of Cartoonist Idol at the i newspaper. Steve provides the delightful shark drawing we use in our masthead here from time-to-time. He will be competing against Ben Jennings, Mark Thatcher, John Kennedy, and Chris Shipton for a job with the paper. There is also […]

Editors take note …

Ian Hislop and Nick Newman talk cartoons at the Eye © V&A If you have not yet watched the behind-the-scenes video about Private Eye on the V&A site, you should take a look, particularly if you are in any way responsible for content in newspapers, magazines or websites. Ian Hislop, Editor of Private Eye, one […]

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. […]

Round-up: What the Bloghorn saw

Rob Murray writes: Following the overthrow of Col. Gaddafi, artistic Libyans have painted caricatures of the dictator on walls throughout the country. A Swedish cartoonist who has received death threats for depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a dog was the target of a foiled attack last month, according to the Telegraph. Cartoonist and New Yorker […]

Cartoon: To the point

Bloghorn thanks reader Chris D.Williams for spotting this entertaining piece of promotion by cartoonist David Shrigley. We also suggest that if you are keen to use cartoon art on your own or, the body of someone else, you pick from a wider menu of options. Take a random option or try the link below. Bloghorn […]

Round-up: What the Bloghorn saw

Rob Murray writes: As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 nears, around 90 US cartoonists across five different syndicates have come together to produce commemorative editions of their strips. There’s more on the story at The Huffington Post and Voice of America. Meanwhile, Daryl Cagle has also asked some of America’s top political cartoonists to reflect […]

Most high-profile cartoon in the world

The Google doodles – the drawings which accompany the advertising company’s ubiquitous search engine – are the most read cartoons in the world. Bloghorn admires the company’s long-term use of drawn imagery as a piece of business promotion (do visit the archives.) Today they have moved the still cartoon image into a animated video celebrating […]