Mario Miranda, India’s cartooning genius

A must see article on the BBC website by Pamela D’Mello highlights the Indian state of Goa’s celebrations to mark the 90th birth anniversary of one of the country’s best-known cartoonists and illustrators, Mario Miranda. Pamela D’Mello writes: Mario’s warm-hearted, often comic drawings of local characters and culture helped to popularise his native state, Goa, […]

Bigging up cartoons in Southport

Tim Harries and his Big Board Noel Ford writes: Saturday 7th May, Southport shopping precinct: Big Boards assembled, caricature station manned, we set about entertaining the passing shoppers as part of the Southport Festival. Despite a weather forecast that hedged its bets between ‘hot and sunny’ and ‘storm-force wind and rain’, the day remained fine […]