Young Cartoonists of the Year 2012

Our colleagues at the British Cartoonists’ Association have launched their annual Young Cartoonists of the Year competition. Details as below and applications to the UK’s Cartoon Museum by 7 November. Hop to it! And have a look back at one of last year’s winners.

Grand and grotesque on display

The Age of Thomas Rowlandson is at the Chris Beetles Gallery in St James’s, London, from Wednesday (17 October). The selling exhibition features more than 75 original works by the master draughtsman. It includes fine art landscape drawings and watercolours alongside Rowlandson’s more familiar social caricatures and cartoons lampooning late 18th and early 19th century […]

The Round-up

Ralph Steadman – the acclaimed cartoonist, Hunter S. Thompson collaborator and member of Procartoonists.org – is the subject of a new documentary film, which premieres at the BFI London Film Festival this evening. Watch the trailer of For No Good Reason, above, and read more about the film courtesy of Empire magazine. Sticking with cinema, […]

Pick a president, any president

The four yearly festival of politics delivered by the American presidential election is in full swing and this time it is also bringing innovation from the US cartoonist Ann Telnaes. Ann has made a purpose-built app for the duration of the campaign called Potuspick.com. For the record, Potus is the the abbreviation for President of the […]

Music in sync with ink

The Cartoon Museum in London becomes a music venue for the first time tomorrow (October 10) as it hosts Musical Ink! a performance by Barbara de Biasi of music inspired by the cartoons on its walls. She was moved to write the music – to be perfomed on flute, viola, harp and tuba – by […]

The Round-up

Above: the US editorial cartoonist Jeff Danziger talks about his work (thanks to Mike Lynch for the video). Alexander Matthews, the Procartoonists.org member whose work appears in The Dandy, Private Eye and The Phoenix among others, writes on his blog about what he sees as the key ingredients for writing a funny kids’ comic strip. […]

Cartoons as figures of speech

Cartoonist and Procartoonists.org member John Jensen has long characterised the connection between words and pictures in his work for Writing Magazine. His new collection – Figures of Speech – will now be launched at the UK Cartoon Museum next week. John kindly agreed to share some of the work from the book below. Further details available […]

Big Draw 2012: The compere tweets

The final word on this year’s Big Draw launch goes to Libby Purves, journalist, broadcaster, compere of the event and Procartoonists.org patron, who sent us this dispatch from the front line of the Battle of Cartoonists I may not be a trained war correspondent but here goes: In that echoing temple of Papal tapestry-based art, […]