Splats Entertainment!
PCO’s roving reporter Glenn Marshall writes: There’s an excellent opportunity to get up close and personal with the wonderful and wild work of Ralph Steadman at the Heath Robinson Museum in Pinner. The fabulously titled ‘INKling’ exhibition continues until 10th May. There’s also an extensive programme of related events during the run including: 8th March […]
Colin Whittock: an appreciation
© Colin Whittock, Private Eye. Rupert Besley writes: A ‘Midlands legend’, in the words of the Birmingham Mail, Colin Whittock was the professional cartoonist par excellence. He began on the city’s Evening Mail in 1969. One Friday, the paper’s longstanding cartoonist left almost without notice, having decided to cash in his pension pot for a […]
The Art of Class War: Newspaper Cartoonists and the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike
Cover cartoon: Alan Hartman from ‘Need Not Greed’ Glenn Marshall writes: A new book shines a Davy lamp on political cartoons during the bitter miners’ strike in the mid eighties. It includes around 130 cartoons. It’s by Nicholas Jones who was the BBC industrial and senior political correspondent for over 20 years. He’s also written […]
Steven Appleby keeping it unreal
Glenn Marshall, PCO Showbiz editor writes: I escaped from reality for a couple of hours last week and entered the wonderful world of Steven Appleby at Space Station Sixty Five gallery where I went on a guided tour around the ‘Nothing Is Real’ exhibition. Steven has had many solo shows but this is the biggest […]