by Blog Team
March 28, 2013 in Events, General, News
Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2013 @ procartoonists.org
The festival exhibition opens from Tuesday (2 April) at The Market Hall Gallery in the heart of Shrewsbury. The live weekend, as you can see above, is the weekend of 19-21 April.
by Blog Team
February 27, 2013 in General
Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival @ Procartoonists.org
This year’s Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival is the tenth one. Appropriately, in this significant year, the theme will be “Time”.
The exhibitions start just under a month from now, on 22 March, and the main weekend of events is 19-21 April. But before it all gets going, we thought we’d mark the occasion with a brief look back at Shrewsburys past, to give you a flavour of the event.
Caricaturists, live drawing, workshops and exhibitions at Shrewsbury 2012 @Procartoonists.org
Here is a video from the festival made by Procartoonists members in 2010 (when this site was called the Bloghorn).
So if you haven’t been to the festival before, come along and tell us what you think …
The Shrewsbury "Melodrawma" @ Procartoonists.org
by Blog Team
February 25, 2013 in Events, General, News
Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival @ Procartoonists
We are very pleased to be able to list the cartoonist attendees at this year’s Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival.
They are: Huw Aaron, Charlie Adlard, Dean Alston, Nathan Ariss, Ian Baker, Rupert Besley, Steve Best (Bestie), Andrew Birch, John Clark (Brick), Matthew Buck (Hack), Steve Chadburn, Jonathan Cusick, Wilbur Dawbarn, Pete Dredge, Noel Ford, Clive Goddard, Tim Harries, John Landers, Alexander Matthews, Rob Murray, Chichi Parish, Roger Penwill, Helen Pointer, John Roberts, Royston Robertson, Chris Ryder, Bill Stott, Cathy Simpson, Rich Skipworth and The Surreal McCoy. The festival patrons Libby Purves and Alex Lester will also be attending.
We will be publishing details of the itinerary over the next few weeks ahead of the festival’s first events. The main weekend for the live cartooning and other public events is 19-21 April. Get it into your diaries!
by Blog Team
April 23, 2012 in Events, News
Another Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival has been and gone, and Procartoonists.org members were there in force adding to a weekend of drawing and superb fun.
We’ll have more on the festival as the pictures and thoughts come in, once everyone has recovered. But in the meantime … lots of us involved in the event, and others, were tweeting about #shrews12 throughout the weekend and posting pictures, more than ever before, and you can read a round-up of that coverage below or online.
by Blog Team
April 18, 2012 in Events, General
The 2012 edition of the festival starts this weekend – 20-22nd April 2012
by Royston
March 22, 2012 in Comment, General
The main Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival exhibition, Flights of Fancy, opens on April 4. Here is another cartoon submitted for exhibition by a Procartoonists.org member.
This is by Alex Hughes and seems appropriate on this post-Budget day. The exhibition will be held at the VAN Gallery, Shrewsbury Market Hall, and will visit other venues after the festival, including RAF Museum Cosford.
As mentioned previously here, a group of cartoonists from France will be attending the main festival weekend, April 19-22, this year. They are: Roger Thisselin (Roth), Jean-Michel Renault, Antoine Darmatoff (Jepida), Phil Umbdenstock and Emmanuel Maillard (Manu). Their exhibition French Flies (geddit?!) will be held at Theatre Severn.
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by Matt Buck
March 14, 2012 in Comment, General
You won’t want to miss the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2012 either. There is just one month to go.
Cartoon submitted for festival exhibition on the theme of Flying © Andy Davey
Cartoonists invited for the show weekend, April 19-22, are:
Angela Martin, Steve Way, Paul Hardman, Tim Harries, Cathy Simpson, Alex Hughes, Chris Ryder, John Roberts, Jonathan Cusick, Steve Bright, Tim Leatherbarrow, Bill Stott, Pete Dredge, The Surreal McCoy, Rupert Besley, Andy Davey, Steve Best, Denis Dowland, Ian Baker, Rob Murray, Rich Skipworth, Robert Duncan, Huw Aaron, Hunt Emerson, Wilbur Dawbarn, Noel Ford, Steve Bell and Roger Penwill.
You will find many of their portfolios here.
Our neighbours just over the Channel are also sending a company of cartoonists and we will be featuring them on Bloghorn soon. And there is always a lively fringe of not-on-the-list-this-time-artists so there’s always a great atmosphere to enjoy between events.
Alex Lester, one of the patrons of the festival will also be there and Bloghorn will be trying to keep on top of the news from the show weekend.
If you are planning to attend Shrewsbury this year please tell us in the comments or by using an @ message on twitter.
by Matt Buck
March 7, 2012 in Comment, General
Exhibition submission cartoon © and courtesy of Rupert Besley
We know all routes lead to Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2012 at this time of the year. See you there.
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Magic! Shrewsbury 2012 Cartoon Festival
March 31, 2012 in Comment, General
The ‘Flights of Fancy’ exhibition for Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2012 opens to the public in the town next week. Enjoy a sneak preview of a few more submissions to the show from our members.
Submission from Noel Ford to the festival exhibition for Shrewsbury Cartoon 2012.
The main festival weekend is 19-22nd April. You can see which cartoonists are confirmed attendees here and there will be a lively fringe of other artists there too.
Exhibition submission from Cathy Simpson.
You can find your options for transport and accomodation in Shrewsbury here and here.
Submission to exhibition by Guy Venables
Er, probably see you there!
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