Early animated cartoons screened
While you’re waiting for the Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival, here’s another event to consider. Slapstick 2008 must surely be one of the first festivals of the year, of any variety, as it takes place from January 17-20. If you’ve not heard much about it, that’s possibly because it’s a festival of silent comedy. Now in […]
PCO Procartoonists – forthcoming event
Bloghorn can reveal final preparations for the UK’s annual cartoon festival are now well underway. Cartoonists are primed to perform in public, the festival theme has been set and exhibitions are being collated and collected from at least two continents. Deadlines for the supply of original artwork are drawing near across several countries and all […]
PCO Procartoonists on waiting for the phone to ring
PCOer Alex Hughes writes and draws;Overjoyed as I was at the receipt of my DACS payment from the UK Design and Copyright Society just before Christmas, I was slightly miffed to read an article in the Studio DACS newsletter which dropped on my doormat this morning entitled ‘My short life as a political cartoonist’ by […]
Artist of the month: John Landers
A marvellous joke from the PCOs Artist of the month, John Landers. Bloghorn says click L for Landers. 11th January 2008 British cartoon talent From the PCO (Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation)
Cartoon exhibition: Robert Dighton
An exhibition entitled Robert Dighton: Georgian Caricaturist, Actor and Thief is at The Cartoon Museum in London from January 23 to April 20. Dighton (1751-1814) was a colourful character who for a time combined a career as an actor in the West End with that of artist and printseller, producing caricatures of the London celebrities […]
PCO Procartoonists on the vacant Trafalgar Square plinth
Bloghorn defies anyone to argue convincingly that the entries for the ‘art’ slot in Trafalgar Square from both Tracey Emin and Yinka Shonibare aren’t really cartoons on a grand scale. This link to the shortlisted lineup comes courtesy of The Guardian newspaper. 8th January 2007British cartoon talent From the PCO (Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation)
PCO and a well-travelled cartoon (ist)
Glad tidings from North Eastern Kent in the UK from whence PCOer Royston Robertson has successfully dispatched one of his cartoons all the way to the Antarctic. A distance of 10,602 miles or thereabouts. The South African National Antarctic Expedition asked if they could use a cartoon of his, which first appeared in Reader’s Digest […]
Artist of the Month: John Landers
Londoner John Landers has been drawing gag cartoons and funny pictures since he was a boy. He attended Middlesex University in London where he studied Graphic Design and although cartoons and funny drawings featured in much of his early design work, he didn’t turn to selling his cartoon gags directly to newspapers and magazines until […]
The sex appeal of the creative mind
PCOer Neil Dishington, spots, paraphrases and even quotes from an item from The Times newspaper, as follows; “The sex appeal of the creative thinker was in part because the possession of a lively creative mind is considered an attractive feature in either sex.” “These lucky people started with the advantage of being considered attractive before […]