A team from the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation will once again take part in the Battle of the Cartoonists. (Cartoon above by Bill Stott)
The event is organised by the Campaign for Drawing, the people behind The Big Draw, and will take place at the Electrician’s Shop gallery, Trinity Buoy Wharf, in east London this Sunday (23 November) from 12pm-5pm. Admission is free.
Four teams, from Procartoonists, The Guardian, The Independent and Private Eye will each create huge banners on the theme of “Recording Britain Now” (click here for the full list of events on that theme).
The winner will be chosen by popular vote i.e. the team that gets the most cheers and applause. Banners from previous Battles over the past decade will be on display. Free cartoon workshops for all ages will also take place.
Sir John Sorrell, a cartoon and drawing aficionado who was was publisher of The Cartoonist, the “cartoon newspaper”, will launch the event and will give a talk about the importance of visual satire.
The team line-ups are as follows (all teams feature Procartoonists members):
Procartoonists.org Andy Davey, Jeremy Banx, Neil Dishington, Steve Way
Private Eye Henry Davies, Kathryn Lamb, Simon Pearsall, David Ziggy Greene
The Guardian Ros Asquith, Steve Bell, Ben Jennings, Kipper Williams
The Independent Dave Brown, Peter Schrank, David Simonds, Matt Buck
We wish all the teams the very best of luck!