Month: April 2011

The other big event

While parts of the country are reeling under the weight of Royal Wedding merchandise (see here) the UK is also having its traditional May elections. Cartoonist and new Bloghorn contributor Rob Murray, writes: Candidate Dafydd Trystan Davies is campaigning with something a bit different from the traditional manifesto, instead commissioning a cartoon strip that outlines his […]

Royal wedding? You're having a laugh

Bloghorn has noted that there is not as much overt anti- monarchist feeling in the UK as we might have expected in the run-up to the royal wedding. Instead, the attitude seems to be a particularly British one: let them get on with it but we reserve our right to take the royal pee out […]

Reader’s Digest, digested

A new addition to this years recent Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival was the presence of a team from the magazine Reader’s Digest. From a stall in the town’s Square, the focus of many of the festival’s activities, the Reader’s Digest team engaged members of the public to try their hand at a popular Digest competition, Beat […]

Shrewsbury perspective

Shrewsbury festival cartoonist Bill Stott writes: Amongst all the frenetic cartooning activity at Shrewsbury – the Big Boards, the caricaturing, strolling players in costume, the music, the wonderful weather and the public throng, two tiny incidents serve to underline the public’s liking for good cartoons. One involved a tiny chap called Pacey who stood with his […]

Can you tell what it is yet?

The PCO’s unofficial official photographer, Gerard Whyman, has put together a short YouTube film that shows the development of the Big Boards at the 2011 Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival. The time-lapse film is a fascinating watch, as it shows the different approaches taken by the cartoonists to the daunting task of filling a 6ft by 8ft […]

Cartoonists now resting …

After the exertion of the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, the cartoonists are now acclimatising to normal life. As usual, the event was covered by Team Bloghorn — Matt Buck, Alex Hughes and Royston Robertson. You can catch a taste of it by looking at the #shrews11 hashtag on Twitter but there will be more to come […]

Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2011

Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival kicks off tonight with a drop-in cartoon workshop at the Bear Steps Gallery at 4.30pm, and a talk by Dr Nick Hiley from the British Cartoon Archive on the cartoons of Carl Giles at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery at 7pm, tickets £5. In the meantime, the exhibition Personal Bests opened […]