We celebrate The New Cartoonist reaching its tenth edition
Glenn Marshall writes: The New Cartoonist has just published its tenth edition which is an achievement in itself with these difficult times in both digital and print publishing. This issue could even be called a PCO Special as it features an interview with our Chair-meister Clive Goddard explaining the organisation, a look back at the […]
Cartoonists in the Commons
Protesting outside Parliament Our Westminster correspondent Glenn Marshall reports: Last Wednesday we were back in the House of Commons with our friends at WDC (Whale & Dolphin Conservation) supporting their campaign to the ‘Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act’ which had previously been passed with large cross-party support in 2023 but has not yet brought into […]
PCO Awards Night 2025
30th January 2025 in the Financial Time’s Bracken House the great and good of British cartooning gathered for the second PCO Awards or ‘Splats’. Clive Goddard chairperson kicked off proceedings as the following ten awards were handed out. Best Caricature Presented by Jeremy Banx 1st Kevin Wells (Squiggle King), The New Cartoonist2nd Graeme Bandeira, […]
PCO Cartoon Awards 2025
Welcome to the sequel to the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation Awards ‘The Splats’. After last year’s inaugural event the awards are back in a different venue. The public vote is now open until the end of Thursday 22nd January 2026. You can vote using the link below which will take you to a survey where you […]
McLachlan Laugh-a-thon
Glenn Marshall writes: There was recently a joyous evening remembering Ed McLachlan’s life and cartoons at The Cartoon Museum hosted by Ed’s family, with Private Eye and The Oldie sponsoring. I’ve never seen an event at the museum so rammed full….it almost looked like one of Ed’s large drawings. The evening was organised to mark […]
Things That Go Bump In The Night exhibition
Intro by Sarah Boyce: Have you noticed it’s getting darker in the evenings and things are getting spookier? The owl hooting a bit too loudly, the werewolf howling far off in the distance, the gate weirdly clanking when there’s no wind? To celebrate the spooky, spirit season West End Arts Library at 35 St Martins […]
Desert island cartoon exhibition
Glenn Marshall writes: Over the next few weeks Pete Songi transports us to a desert island with his fourth cartoon exhibition, held at the wonderful Duke of Greenwich pub and doesn’t living on a desert island, cut off from what’s going on in the world, seem an appealing prospect at the moment (naturally you’d need […]
New The New Cartoonist
The New Cartoonist is now onto its fourth issue. Editor, Cartoonist and man about town Pete Songi introduces you to the latest instalment: In this issue we have the editorial cartoon heavyweight, writer, poet and performer Martin Rowson on the front cover. I caught up with Rowson in his studio at home in South East […]
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 […]