The Comic Book Alliance

The Comic Book Alliance, a fledgling non-for profit organisation was founded in 2009 and is ‘‘dedicated to the promotion of British comic books, graphic novels, webcomics and sequential art in its many forms.’’ It duly joins our list of cartoon and comic art organisations. The organisation has just announced the winner of its recent competition to search for […]

It's a Comix Thing

If you’re a fan of small-press comics, you might want to get along to the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing, which this year takes place on March 27. The annual Thing, which began in 2004, is a convention for readers and creators of web-comics and self-published mini-comics, complete with stalls, panels of experts, and […]

Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival 2010

More than 40 of the UK’s top cartoonists will be drawing for and entertaining the public at the UK’s only cartoon festival next month. There will be many workshops, clinics, talks and much drawing of cartoons and caricatures over the weekend of April 22-25. On the Friday and Saturday in the town square, the cartoonists […]

Steve Bell on Ronald Searle

Cartoonist Steve Bell, who curated the current Ronald Searle show at the Cartoon Museum writes here about the experience. You can read more of Bloghorn’s coverage about the three Searle shows currently on in London here.

How cartoons help us cope

Libby Purves, patron of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation, which runs the Bloghorn, writes in the Times today about how cartoons help us confront the dark side of human nature: Cartoon grotesques let us face the real horrors Above: Libby chats to the Guardian’s Steve Bell, creator of more than his fair share of cartoon grotesques, […]

Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival 2010

The UK’s big cartooning event of the year, the Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival is coming to Bloghorn. This year the weekend is April 22-25 and the theme is Magic, Myth and Mystery. It is the 7th year of the festival, making it the UK’s longest running event of its type. There will be a large […]

Ronald Searle shows open in London

In the spirit of our recent coverage of the Ronald Searle exhibitions, we are pleased to publish Martin Rowson‘s article from the exhibition catalogue produced by the Cartoon Museum. In 1999 Ronald Searle was judged, by his fellow cartoonists, to be the greatest cartoonist of the 20th Century. It’s a judgement I thoroughly endorse, though as […]