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An exhibition dedicated to the work of Posy Simmonds, the creator of Tamara Drewe, has opened in Belgium. Forbidden Planet has further details here, and Paul Gravett, who co-curated the show with Simmonds, writes extensively about her life and work on his blog. To coincide with the recent Jubilee celebrations, The Guardian looked back at […]
Foghorn and the Victorians
Our anthropomorphic Foghorn delves into the history of UK cartooning.
Cartoonist refuses to grin and bear it
Matthew Inman, the cartoonist behind popular US website The Oatmeal, wrote about a website that was stealing his images a year ago. His blog post about FunnyJunk.com received a response and the subsequent removal of Inman’s images was welcomed, even though not all of them were taken down. Eventually, Inman decided it wasn’t worth the energy to continue to […]
The doodle bug
© Doodlejunk/October Jones Cartoons and doodles placed in the real world feature among many other very inventive, and funny, images on a Tumblr blog called Doodlejunk. This was brought to our attention by Procartoonists.org member Stevyn Colgan who has highlighted Doodlejunk and other web cartoonists in a post called Cartoonists you should all know on […]
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The Huffington Post looks as the wartime work of Dr Seuss, best known for his children’s books but also a prolific political cartoonist. Find the article and a slideshow here. The entire archive of Dr Seuss’ Second World War cartoons is available here. To coincide with his appearance at the Hay Festival, Matt Pritchett, the […]
Foghorn looks at the past…
In somewhat disjointed fashion. You may care to explore other more sequentially coherent parts of his archive here.
Putting on one’s top hat
Cartoonists have to be resourceful creatures because of the range of jobs they are asked to undertake. Procartoonists member Pete Dredge explains more: At the start of the year I had a call from an agency requiring a witty cartoon to publicise a client’s beer festival. This was no ordinary beer festival… Their budget was […]
Cartoonists at the Olympics
The exhibition Cartoonists at the Olympics, featuring work from the British Cartoon Archive selected by community sporting groups, opens this weekend. It features Olympics cartoons from years gone by, including this 1948 Daily Mail cartoon about the Games in London that year by Ronald Niebour, who drew as NEB. On the evidence of the Diamond […]
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Alexander Matthews and Wilbur Dawbarn, both Procartoonists.org members and known for gag cartoons as well as comic strips, are collaborating on “Useleus”, a new series for the weekly comic The Phoenix. Alex writes the strip, while Wilbur provides the artwork, above. The strip will tell the story of “by far the most rubbishest warrior in […]