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Radio Times, The TImes, The Spectator, New Statesman, Netflix, QI...
Brighty is one of the UK's most successful and diverse cartoonists, producing artwork of the highest quality for a huge variety of publications, from The Sunday Times to The Beano, and for clients around the globe. He covers almost every aspect of cartooning, with political cartoons and caricature being particular specialities.
What people are saying
“It is a proud Private Eye tradition to take cartoons, er, seriously. They are vital to the success of the magazine, and I should make it clear to any cartoonists reading this that I mean that as a sincere compliment rather than as a promise of a pay rise.”
Ian HislopPrivate Eye
"One of the magical things about cartoonists is they can take the saddest of things - like Covid 19 - and make light of them without leaving a bad taste in the mouth.
They are working on a different, comic, plane where nothing should ever be taken too seriously.
Cartoons are little escapes - not just from the articles in The Oldie, which, brilliant as they are, take longer to read than a one line caption. But they are also escapes from the world, a flight into fantasy: a world where dinosaurs talk, and cavemen have a sophisticated, modern take on Stone Age life."
Harry MountEditor, The Oldie
As a teenager and student, confronting the complications and horrors of the world the satirists helped to rebalance me, with dry laughter.
Yet better still is the gag-cartoonists’ satire of ordinariness, the human predicament skewered in a few skilful lines. I would never live in a house long without a few originals on the wall, making me smile as I walk by, and a collection of masters from Tidy and Mac and Posy and Searle and Stott on the bookshelves. They sustain me, and will until I die.
Thank you all."
Libby Purves
The invitation to be a patron of the PCO is not only an honour but also a chance to beg for mercy for the many cartoon crimes I committed in the name of OINK!
I’m talking 'Dr Mooney - He’s Completely Looney'...'When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth’...and 'Harry The Head'. Lest we forget, Harry was simply that. A head. With no body. A character I engineered simply because I couldn't draw bodies properly. It all unravelled somewhat when I realised that I couldn’t draw heads properly either.
But still I continued.
Shameless.
Thank you for this kind invitation and I hope to be in a position to face your combined indignation over a glass in the near future. (Though of course I’m not going to buy you one.)
Marc RileyBBC Radio 6 Music, erstwhile Fall bassist and failed cartoonist From the blog
‘Art’ exhibition at Omnibus Theatre
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Great Ideas exhibition
Jeremy Banx writes: So another PCO exhibition is now on show in the café at the Omnibus Theatre on Clapham Common. Hot on the heels
PCO Cartoon Review of the Year 2023
Cartoon © Steve Bright Glenn Marshall writes: OK, lock yourselves in, this is going to be a rocky ride and 2023 was a particularly rocky ride for