The cartoonists in recession

Cartoonists Matt Pritchett and Nicholas Garland of The Telegraph are having a short exhibition in central London at the start of next month. It is being organised by art dealer John Rae-Smith.

Artist of the Month: Nathan Ariss

Nathan Ariss is our featured artist for January 2009. Well, thank you for asking me to be your Artist of the Month dear Bloggy. As your January 2009 pin-up, it falls to me to inject a tone of – dare I say it? – optimism into the current credit-crunchy world of the freelance cartoonist. Yes, […]

Animated film triumphs at Golden Globes

The animated film Waltz With Bashir was one of the winners at the Golden Globes, significantly triumphing not in an animation category but as Best Foreign Language Film. The film, tipped by the Bloghorn as one to watch back in May, sees Israeli writer and director Ari Folman using animation to depict his memories of […]

Welcome to the Bloghorn's new home

In a bid to kick start the UK housing market, the Bloghorn has moved to these new premises. Please enjoy poking around, our apologies if you find anything is working in other than tip-top fashion, but you know how it is with moving. The chairleg for the Bloghorn’s eminence grise, The Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation, said: […]

Welcome to the Bloghorn’s new home

In a bid to kick start the UK housing market, the Bloghorn has moved to these new premises. Please enjoy poking around, our apologies if you find anything is working in other than tip-top fashion, but you know how it is with moving. The chairleg for the Bloghorn’s eminence grise, The Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation, said: […]

Lego cartoons

It’s the start of the first working week of the New Year, so here’s something very silly, and great fun, to cheer you up: Lego cartoons. That’s not cartoons about Lego, you understand, but cartoons made of Lego. US magazine cartoonist Mark Anderson re-created one of his own gag cartoons in Lego form, purely for […]

The cartoonist in 2009

Preparations for the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2009 are well under way. This year’s festival theme is The Science of Nature to coincide with the town’s year-long celebration of Shropshire lad Charles Darwin’s birth. This year also coincides with the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book On the Origin of Species. The Guardian’s Steve […]

Cartoon reviews of 2008

Tayo Fatunla for the BBC World Service (Also, including Zapiro from South Africa). Kipper Williams at the Guardian. The paper also offers a wide selection of art for the new year including Martin Rowson and Steve Bell. Political cartoonist of the Year Morten Morland at the Times. Pat Blower draws for The Daily Telegraph. Matt […]

2008 in cartoons – a look back at St Just

PCOer Alex Noel-Watson reports on last year’s version of one of the drawing things we have to look forward to in 2009: Deep in the heart of the French countryside of the Limousin, in the department of Haute Vienne where characteristic tan-coloured cattle roam the lush meadows, nestles the village of Saint-Just-Le-Martel, near Limoges. Saint-Just-Le-Martel […]