Special report: 50 years of cartoons in Private Eye

Fans of Private Eye cartoons were in for a treat this week, as editor Ian Hislop and cartoonist Nick Newman took to the stage for two separate events looking back over 50 years of visual humour in the magazine – where they picked out a few favourite gags and discussed the challenge of selecting the […]

Opinion: Cheerleading for art, part 2

Bill Stott continues to put the case for better art education in schools. You can read part one here. Of course, Michael Gove could be a keen and knowledgeable student of the arts – first in line when there’s something new at Tate Modern, burning his thumbs on disposable cigarette lighters at Glastonbury, and clamouring […]

Sherriffs in town

Here at the Procartoonists blog we’re hearing very good things about The Age of Glamour: Stars of Stage and Screen, an exhibition of drawings by the Scottish cartoonist R.S. Sherriffs. It  focuses on the golden age of Hollywood and the West End stage and includes caricatures of Greta Garbo, above, Charlie Chaplin, Bette Davis, Ivor […]

The Round-up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4BJvgTO8dks Above: the exiled Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat talks to the BBC about taking on a dictator’s regime with pen and ink. Art Spiegelman, the acclaimed cartoonist behind Maus, Raw and the Garbage Pail Kids, is interviewed for NPR as he publishes a new retrospective collection. Listen to him here. In November, Tate will publish […]

Opinion: Cheerleading for art

Bill Stott writes: Remember your school reports? They become ingrained. Like your first snog. Mine weren’t bad. English, history, art, even P.E. (he was a bully) were all good but then they fell into the maths abyss. That bit was never good. I really didn’t care how long it took six men with rubber teaspoons […]

Human rights in cartoon form

Amnesty International has come up with a memorable way to remind people about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: it has issued the document as a booklet illustrated with cartoons. Know your Rights is published in conjuction with Waterstones and features 14 cartoonists, including the Procartoonists.org members Tony Husband, Fran Orford and Royston Robertson, illustrating […]

Clive’s gig is a walk in the park

Procartoonists.org member Clive Goddard tells us about a star-studded event I’ve been drawing a regular cartoon for the website of Radio 2’s Alex Lester for four years now, a connection that meant I got asked along to the BBC station’s Hyde Park gig on Sunday. The brief was to draw live caricatures of all the […]

The Round-up

The Cartoon Cafe in Eastbourne will be showing 40 of Dave Brown‘s art-inspired Rogues’ Gallery cartoons, from 5 October until 20 January. See more here. Another one for the diary: Tony Rushton, former art director at Private Eye, will be taking part in a panel discussion about satirical images through the ages at the Royal […]

At the front: The Wipers Times

Nick Newman writes: “It’ll all be over by Christmas,” I joked, as we all shook hands with the general staff at BBC Two and agreed to produce a scripted, filmed and edited version of our World War One comedy-drama The Wipers Times before the end of 2012. It’s now September 2013 – Christmas has come and gone – and we are in the midst of publicising our  recreation of the […]