Times cartoonist moves to the Mail

Jonathan Pugh, self-portrait above, who has been pocket cartoonist at The Times for 15 years, is moving to the Daily Mail. A member of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation, which runs the Bloghorn, Jonathan takes over from Ken Mahood who is retiring. The Mail has a profile of Jonathan, in which he outlines his working process: […]

Cartooning in Conflict opens in London

A travelling exhibition of work drawn from around the world opens next week at St Martins-in-the-Fields church in central London. The show is on behalf of The Parents Circle Forum who work for reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here you can see two small previews of work from the exhibition’s last stop in New York. Featured […]

Cartoons and cartoonists to feature on US postage stamps

The US Postal Service is to honour cartoonist Bill Mauldin with a postage stamp, due to be released in March 2010. Mauldin, who served with the 44th Infantry Division during World War II drew cartoons about ordinary soldiers for Stars and Stripes, the US Army’s newspaper. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 and died […]

Interview with David Lloyd – II

Following our recent Q&A with him, here are the details of comic artist David Lloyd’s project, Cartoon Classroom. The plan  is  to centralize all information relating to the study of cartoon and comic strip creation in the UK. Historian Paul Gravett and teacher Steve Marchant (author of The Cartoonists’ Workshop) are also founder members of the non-for-profit service. The […]