Cartoonists in Conversation

Jonathan Cusick writes: A Friday evening talk has traditionally opened the public programme of the Shrewsbury cartoon festival. This year ‘Cartoonists in Conversation’ aimed to give the public an insight into the lives of cartoonists, whose work they would probably be familiar with but know little about the people behind them. The number of cartoonists […]

Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival in the rear-view mirror.

Jonathan Cusick, Pete Dredge, John Roberts and Helen Pointer ‘drawing the crowds’. Rupert Besley writes: The sun shone on the righteous – and on the cartoonists in Shrewsbury. It was a bumper gathering in the town this last weekend, with visitors and participants drawn from far and wide. Few more so than festival regular Dean […]

Could witchcraft be a winner at the World Illustration Awards 2018?

© Rebecca Hendin/BuzzFeed One of the PCO’s newest members, Rebecca Hendin, has been shortlisted for the prestigious award The series of editorial illustrations, created to accompany a BuzzFeed article on historical witch animals, has already cast a spell in getting her nominated – no mean achievement as the World Illustration Awards 2018 received a record […]

MY LIFE IN HIGH FINANCE (or My Love Letter to Accountants)

© Rupert Besley Rupert Besley writes: I’m ending my career much as I began it. Not getting paid. My first regular job in cartooning was with a local newspaper and I got £5 a week. Only I didn’t. This was more than 40 years ago. I had a full-time job and this was just a […]

The Cartoon Museum announces move at ’50 Glorious Shows!’ launch.

The Cartoon Museum announced its exciting plans for a relocation to a new space at the launch of the ’50 Glorious Shows!’ exhibition last Wednesday. The museum Curator Anita O’Brien reveals the plans.                                               […]