© Rupert Besley Rupert Besley writes: I’m ending my career much as I began it. Not getting paid. My first regular job in cartooning was with a local newspaper and I got £5 a week. Only I didn’t. This was more than 40 years ago. I had a full-time job and this was just a…

The Cartoon Museum announced its exciting plans for a relocation to a new space at the launch of the ’50 Glorious Shows!’ exhibition last Wednesday. The museum Curator Anita O’Brien reveals the plans.                                              …

Festival poster illustration © Wilbur Dawbarn It’s only a few weeks now until the transport-themed Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival alights and this year it really is international with cartoonists shipped over from Belgium, Germany, Australia, the USA and Ireland. Drawing in the crowds at last year’s festival. The main event is the popular live drawing…

© Myriad Editions “It matters that we remember women’s history. Like so much art, women have taken a backseat. Now they are at the forefront and I am SO proud!” Sandi Toksvig (Author, TV & Radio presenter and PCO patron) This timely and welcome book celebrates the massive contribution women have made, and continue to…

Ramón Esono Ebalé, cartoonist Officer Admits Superiors Ordered Dubious Charges (Nairobi, March 7, 2018) – An Equatorial Guinean court on March 7, 2018 released an artist imprisoned on dubious charges for nearly six months, 18 human rights groups said today. The prosecution dropped all charges against Ramón Esono Ebalé, a cartoonist whose work is often critical of…

The Telegraph’s Matthew Pritchett Many have lined up to pay tributes to the much loved cartoonist as he chalks up a remarkable thirty years in the job. Sadly, Jeremy Corbyn was not one of them: his team politely declined, saying none of the Matt cartoons they had seen about Mr Corbyn were funny. In a…