Artist of the Month: Arthur Reid

Here’s our third cartoon from Arthur Reid, PCO Artist of the Month for May 2008. It’s British cartoon talent From the PCO (Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation)

Review: Pont at the Cartoon Museum

PCOer Royston Robertson reviews the exhibition Pont: Observing the British at Home and Abroad at the Cartoon Museum It’s probably asking for trouble to use the word “important” in relation to a cartoon exhibition, but it seems applicable here as Pont, who was known as Graham Laidler to his mum, is so often overlooked when […]

New children's comic launched

The perceived wisdom is that the children’s comic market in Britain is in decline, but Random House publishing is attempting to reverse the trend with a new comic called The DFC. Initially the comic, which is aimed at eight to 12-year-olds, will be subscription only, though there are plans for it to appear in shops. […]

Snapshots from Shrewsbury – the bigger picture

First person testimony on how it feels to try and make something this big in less than ten hours comes from PCOer Pete Dredge. ’For the majority of our working year we toil away in solitary isolation, hidden away, apparently unloved and unsure of our worth. Two days in Shrewsbury’s town square working on a […]

Artist of the Month: Arthur Reid

Our second cartoon from the PCO Artist of the Month for May 2008, PCOer Arthur Reid. It’s British cartoon talent From the PCO (Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation)

Cartoon workshops: inky fingers and flying pickles

Workshops and cartoon “clinics” were a major part of the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival as usual this year, and PCO members Andy Gilbert, Paul Hardman and Tim Harries were at the forefront, helping members of the public to develop their cartooning skills. Here’s Tim Harries on how he ran his “Create a Comic Strip” workshop: “I […]

The mayor of London's cartoonist

PCOer Martin Rowson writes about his time as Cartoonist Laureate to the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, and wonders whether he’ll survive the regime change. I suppose that Ken Livingstone’s defeat by Boris Johnson means that I’m no longer the Official Cartoonist Laureate to the Mayor of London, although I’m not quite sure. Somewhere […]

PCO Artist of the month – Arthur Reid

PCOer Arthur Reid has more than thirty years experience as a cartoonist. A graduate of Gray’s school of Art in Aberdeen, he has contributed cartoons to many magazines and newspapers including Punch, Private Eye and The Oldie. He is a winner of numerous awards for visual joke-making and has also served as a judge at […]