Happy 60th birthday Private Eye! In celebration, cartoonists have been posting their first (or early) cartoons from the mag. Here’s a few of them culled from the twittersphere by PCO members starting with Clive Goddard who set the ball rolling:
© Clive Goddard
© The Surreal McCoy
© Wilbur Dawbarn
© Mike Stokoe
@ Sarah Boyce
© Steve Jones
© Guy Venables
© Royston Robertson
© Zoom Rockman
© Andrew Fraser
© Chris Williams
© Kerina Stevens
© Mark Winter
© Andrew Birch
© Glenn Marshall
© Pete Dredge
The above by Dredge wasn’t mined from social media but too good a first to leave out and from waaaaaaaay back in 1977, Issue 404.
Interesting to see how some of the styles have evolved (the only thing that’s changed with mine is the signature’s got elongated)
Has anyone got any more PE cartoon firsts they want to share with us?
There are some great videos celebrating Private Eye’s 60th Anniversary Celebration on the EyePlayer
See you back here for the 70th birthday by which time most cartoons will be produced by AI as VR holo-toons.