Heritage exhibition: Just like that!
An exhibition of cartoons and caricatures by Procartoonists.org members Bill Stott, Noel Ford, Roger Penwill and John Roberts is being held at the Heritage Centre in Knutsford, Cheshire, from 6 November until 22 December. The Cartoon Collective show is very loosely based on the theme of “heritage” and will include a collection of cartoons on imaginary […]
Free will and cartooning
An opinion piece by Bill Stott Free will and cartooning: is this a no-brainer? Or will I realise hitherto unseen and earth-shattering truths whilst typing? A eureka moment like finally figuring out what the symbol on your car’s dashboard resembling a tap-dancing flukeworm represents. In some countries, drawing cartoons, usually political ones, which laud the state […]
The Round-up
Fastcocreate.com looks back at the 60-year history of MAD, the subversive comic magazine, in this in-depth article and slideshow. For even more on the subject, MAD’s editors have put together an exhaustive new book. In a short video, BBC News talks to the US cartoonists Pat Bagley and Nick Anderson about lampooning Barack Obama and […]
Opinion: The Young Cartoonists of the Year 2012
We recently published details of the annual Young Cartoonists of the Year awards, run by our sister organisation the British Cartoonists’ Association. We received a large reaction from readers which included this piece of opinion from cartoonist Alison Sampson. You should know that fairly recently I picked up a pen again, not least because of […]
Dandy looks back, and forward
The Dandy: 75 Years of Biffs, Bangs and Banana Skins opens at the Cartoon Museum in London today. The exhibition runs until 24 December, effectively out-living the comic itself, as the final print issue comes out on 4 December – 75 years to the day since its launch. The comic will be moving online though, […]
Enter The Pangolin
We are regularly pleased to see cartoonists moving from a print focus to a mixture of print and pixel, and there’s a new publication on this track we should note. Long-time readers here will recall the Procartoonists print magazine – The Foghorn. Cathy Simpson, one of the producers behind it, has jumped into the blogosphere with […]
Entente cordiale at St Just festival
The Surreal McCoy reports on the recent St Just Cartoon Festival Entente cordiale. Sounds like something you find on the shelf alongside the bottles of elderflower and blackcurrant flavours right? Wrong. Actually, the final weekend of the St Just Cartoon Festival, near Limoges in France, was full of such friendly understanding, with 100-plus cartoonists and […]
The Round-up
Procartoonists.org member Tim Harries draws our attention to the first episode of Rolf Harris‘ new BBC series, Rolf on Welsh Art, in which he profiles the late, great Welsh cartoonist Gren Jones. Watch the half-hour show on BBC iPlayer (available until 9 November) – or why not visit Gren’s home village and take the walking […]
Review: Punch Cartoons in Colour
Cartoonist and Procartoonists member Noel Ford takes a look back at The Best of Punch Cartooons in Colour. The collection is edited by Helen Walasek. Well, as far as a review is concerned, I could leave it at that. The title says it all. Oh, all right then … it has long been a bone […]
