Big Draw sketched out

The Campaign for Drawing has announced details of the launch event for this year’s Big Draw festival, which is called Make Your Mark on the Future. The London launch takes place over the weekend of October 22 and 23 on the South Bank, between London Bridge and Tower Bridge. Highlights will include free cartoon workshops […]

You say tomato, we say cartoonist …

Bloghorn must take issue with the US political cartoonist Daryl Cagle over a blog post in which he talks about the “cultural” difference between cartoons created in America and those from the rest of the world. Cagle, who also syndicates cartoons through the Political Cartoonists Index argues that there is a ‘‘BIG cultural gap’’ between […]

Instant art – good or bad?

Bloghorn sees more evidence of the speed of digital processing and how it is changing the way images are made. Doodle Cam is a recently launched application for smartphones which provide instant, or real-time animation effects for video shot on that device. The app is made by a firm of developers called MacPhun, you can […]

On the trail of cartoonist Gren Jones

A walking trail has opened in memory of popular Welsh cartoonist Grenfell Jones, who died in 2007, aged 72. Gren, as he signed his cartoons for the South Wales Echo for 35 years, created the fictional Welsh valley village of Aberflyarff. The proposed trail will wind its way around Gren’s home village of Hengoed and […]

Cartoons in surprising places

Cartoons and comics strips can often be seen in some surprising places, but probably none more so than this boating shelter in Battersea Park, London. The comic artists Sean Azzopardi, Joe Decie, John Cei Douglas, Ellen Lindner, Douglas Noble and Paul O’Connell drew eight different short comic strips about a fictional 1974 rock concert in […]

Professional satirists officially recognised by Apple

Facing criticism for rejecting (and later approving) a number of caricature-based iPhone apps, Apple has changed it’s terms and conditions to specifically exempt professional satirists. As reported by The Daily Cartoonist the two new clauses in their guidelines for new apps read: 14.1 Any app that is defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited, or likely to place the targeted individual […]

Cuts campaign has its Arts about face

Bloghorn was greatly amused by the recent launch of a campaign to save the arts from the forthcoming cuts in UK public spending. But we find it deeply ironic that Arts Council England – which has organised the Save the Arts campaign via its Turning Point Network – is choosing to launch it with a […]

The Beano Club goes online

The long running fan club for the Beano comic, the Beano Club, is to close prior to being relaunched as a new website www.beano.com in the next few months. The Dennis the Menace Fan Club, which included membership to Gnasher’s Fang Club was started by DC Thomson in 1976  and featured badges, birthday cards, newsletters […]

Talking about Fougasse

Be careful what you say and where you say it! – one of several wartime “Careless Talk Costs Lives” posters by Kenneth Bird a.k.a Fougasse The exhibition Fougasse – Careless Talk Costs Lives opens at the Cartoon Musuem in London on Thursday (September 9) and runs until November 24. Kenneth Bird (1887-1965), who drew under […]