Victory for Obama: The cartoonists' view
The time difference between the UK and the USA meant that newspapers here were unable to report the victory of Barack Obama the day after the election. So British cartoonists had another day to gather their thoughts, and we saw the results yesterday. Two cartoonists noted a certain messianic quality in the President Elect. Peter […]
Artist of the Month: Kate Taylor
Bloghorn’s featured Artist of the Month for November is cartoonist and illustrator, Kate Taylor. Yorkshire-based Kate’s work has appeared worldwide in books and magazines for a wide variety of clients. Like many cartoonists, her work appears in many markets. Her clients include Sainsburys, Yorkshire Electricity, Honda, BBC, The Daily Mirror, The Sunday Times, Exley Publications […]
Making the Giles cartoon exhibition
This cartoon courtesy of the Cartoon Museum, the University of Kent and the trustees of the Giles collection. Bloghorn interviews Nick Hiley, curator of the exhibition Giles: One of the Family which is now on at the Cartoon Museum in central London. Who had the original idea for a Giles retrospective? As soon as the […]
Cartoon exhibition: Giles – One of the Family
Original artwork by Carl Giles. Click to enlarge The exhibition Giles: One of the Family opens today (November 5) at the Cartoon Museum in London. It showcases the work of Carl Giles (1916-1995), the most famous cartoonist of his generation. Born in Islington, London, during the First World War, Giles joined the Daily Express in […]
Cartooning the US election if you are a British cartoonist
PCOer Martin Rowson writes: Basically, it’s a bugger, and quite often you have you make a virtue of necessity by saying you don’t know (the result). So in 2000 I did a cartoon for The Scotsman, drawn on the day of the election, to be published on the Wednesday, saying that Ralph Nader had won. […]
Cartooning the US Presidential Election
We’ve seen how they covered the recent Democratic and Republican Conventions, but as the USA goes to the polls today, how do cartoonists cover an election? Probably the most controversial approach is that being taken by Garry Trudeau of Doonesbury (seen here in the Guardian) – to draw the artwork for Wednesday’s strip in advance […]