Re:Mona exhibition

Glenn Marshall writes: I’ve long been a Mona Lisa obsessive, now I’ve come up with a cunning way to get others to join in. Along with Helen Wilde and Terry Sole of One New Street Gallery I’ve just hung the ‘Mona Lisa – Not Funny’ exhibition as a side-show to the excellent Herne Bay Cartoon […]

Fifth Herne Bay Cartoon Festival begins

[Poster by Chris Burke] The fifth Herne Bay Cartoon Festival is under way, and this year the event features a change of venue for its main live event and a guest appearance by one of the UK’s top political cartoonists. After four years at the town’s Bandstand, the live event will be held on the […]

A Case for Pencils’ Jane Mattimoe meets Ralph Steadman

Ralph, Jane and a bird’s skull talk cartoons via Skype In the first of what we hope will be a regular feature, Jane Mattimoe packs her Case for Pencils and crosses The Big Pond to interview British cartoonists, starting with Ralph Steadman: I have been interviewing New Yorker cartoonists about their art supplies and drawing […]

Make sure you catch this Chris Beetles Gallery cricket themed exhibition

© Bill Stott In celebration of another glorious summer of English cricket, that well known champion of cartooning, Chris Beetles Gallery, is presenting “Leather on Willow”, an exhibition of over 175 cricketing watercolours, oils, cartoons and illustrations. A veritable who’s who of cartooning and illustration, the exhibition will include Glen Baxter, Peter Brookes, Rowland Emett, […]

American cartoonist declines Iranian cartoon contest award

© Clay Jones The award winning cartoon spoofs Time magazine’s 2016 selection of Trump as “person of the year” by drawing a comparison to Hitler, whom Time named its “man of the year” in 1938 Political cartoonist Clay Jones’ initial delight upon receiving a citation in Iran’s House of Cartoon “Trumpism Cartoon and Caricature Contest” rapidly […]

The Inking Woman at The Cartoon Museum, London

© The Surreal McCoy To celebrate the launch of “The Inking Woman – British Women Cartoon and Comic Artists”, the current exhibition at The Cartoon Museum, London, three of the participants talk about their work and love of the medium. Alex Fitch talks to Sandi Toksvig, a patron of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation, and to artist The Surreal […]