Artist of the Month – Ken Pyne
The Bloghorn Artist of the Month for May 2009 is Ken Pyne, a prolific gag, strip cartoonist and caricaturist. Bloghorn asked Ken how he started as a cartoonist: I became a cartoonist as I never wanted to do anything else as far back as I can remember. Drawing all over school exercise books seemed better […]
Exhibition is breath of fresh air
An exhibition called Penwill’s Countryside Cartoons opens tomorrow (May 8th) at the Assembly Rooms in Ludlow, Shropshire. It features 50 cartoons by PCOer Roger Penwill, mostly from the collection The Countryside Cartoon Joke Book published last year by Merlin Unwin. Many of the cartoons are from The Countryman magazine which has featured Penwill cartoons regularly […]
What cartoons mean to me – Steve Bell
Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell answers the question ‘What do cartoons mean to you?’ at the recent Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival. He and former Conservative Education Secretary Kenneth Baker have co-curated the Thatcher retrospective exhibition Maggie! Maggie! Maggie! which opens to the public at the Cartoon Museum today. The UK’s National Cartoon Museum is at 35 […]
Margaret Thatcher: Two cartoon views
Margaret Thatcher caricatured by Charles Griffin It was 30 years ago today (May 4) that Margaret Thatcher walked through the doors of 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister, quoting the words of St. Francis of Assisi. Opinion is still sharply divided on whether or not she managed to bring harmony where there was discord, or […]
Cartoon Pick of the Week
For the week ending 1st May 2009, we have a Shrewsbury Big Boards Special, a selection of some of the giant cartoons seen at this year’s festival. One: Steve “Bestie” Best on CO2 emissions Two: Jacky Fleming’s Mrs Darwin Three: Kipper Williams looks at a mayfly’s day Four: Clive Goddard on human resources Five: Dave […]
John Donegan 1926-2009
We are sad to report the death of the cartoonist ‘‘Donegan.’’ John was born in London in 1926 and after many years in the advertising industry he became a freelance cartoonist in the early 1970s. By the time he retired in 1991 he had become one of Britain’s favourite cartoonists, featuring regularly in Punch magazine. […]