Cartoon Pick of the Week

Bloghorn spotted this great work this week… One: Jack Ziegler in the New Yorker – on superpowered rivalry. Two:Mike Turner in the Spectator – ‘What’s up with you? Never seen anyone enjoying themselves before?’ Three:Steve Bell in The Guardian on the UK’s North-South divide British cartoon talent From the PCO (Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation)

Artist of the Month: Andy Davey

Andy Davey is the PCO Artist of the Month for August 2008. Bloghorn asked him how he makes his cartoons. I draw with small pieces of broken china, dug up from the garden, while listening to Bach fugues on the wireless. Well, that’s not strictly true. I use pen and ink too … in fact, […]

The Cartoonists' Olympics

Bored with the Beijing Olympics already? Don’t worry, there’s always the Cartoonists’ Olympics. At least there is in the mind of the New Yorker cartoonist Mick Stevens. He imagines what the 2008 Magazine Cartoonists’ Olympic Games would be like on his aptly named blog I really should be drawing. Events include: The Reject-Toss (see above) […]

Cartooning in the silly season

PCOer Morten Morland writes for Bloghorn: I was going to write a post on cartooning during what journalists call the silly season. It would have been about trying to perform when most meaningful politicians are on holiday and the papers are full of exclusives such as “Brendan from Bradford can blow bubbles with his bum”. […]

Cartoon Pick of the Week

As we drift into the sometimes quieter backwaters of the summer news season, here’s a few cartoons that caught Bloghorn’s eye this week. One:Dave Brown on lip-reading, from the Independent Two:Pete Dredge on the continuing effect of the smoking ban, from the Spectator Three:Christian Adams on yawning dogs, from the Telegraph As previously mentioned, if […]

Artist of the Month: Andy Davey

Andy Davey is the PCO Artist of the Month for August 2008. Andy’s cartoons and caricatures have appeared in UK publications including The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent on Sunday, Private Eye, The Spectator, The New Statesman and Prospect. He has wielded his pen for TV too, drawing for the animated satirical […]

Animation: Monkey business at the BBC

It’s great to see that the BBC has come up with a very striking animated film to promote the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, which get under way this week. The characters, adapted from the Monkey stories, are designed by Jamie Hewlett, and the music is by Damon Albarn, his partner in the animated pop group […]

Cartoon Exhibition: The Beano in Dundee

Amid the coverage of the London launch of the Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash last week at the Cartoon Museum, we should mention that there’s a parallel exhibition in the Beano and Dandy’s home town of Dundee. The exhibition is being held at the Lamb Gallery at the University of Dundee until the 20th September, […]

Artist of the Month

Bloghorn is giving Artist of the Month a week off this Friday but we will be back with a new featured cartoonist next Friday. In the meantime, have a look back at the talent we have already featured over the past year. It’s British cartoon talent From the PCO (Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation)