Opinion: Cartoonists and a new world
The internet is a perfect medium for cartoons. Images can look much more striking on a backlit screen than they ever did in muddy print. So the news that The Sun was dropping Andy Davey’s weekday editorial cartoon slot just as it finally attempted a serious transition to digital first publication is ironic. I am […]
Opinion: The cartoonist and the editor
Following the news that one of the UK’s mass market national newspapers had removed its weekday editorial cartoonist we asked Andy Davey to write about the strange relationship that lies at the heart of such jobs. For the UK cartoonist, working outside of the beneficence of a major newspaper brings benefits and troubles; editorial freedom […]
Opinion: The Sun drops editorial cartoons from weekday editions
Andy Davey writes: After more than 40 years, The Sun has cut editorial cartoons from the weekday editions of the paper. The paper has boasted a roster of excellent cartoonists to poke fun at the political shenanigans of the day. Names such as Stanley Franklin, Dave Gaskill, Keith Waite, Paul Rigby, Posy Simmonds, Tom Johnston, […]
Sun shine wears off for Davey
The Sun, the largest circulation print newspaper in the UK is now without a weekday editorial cartoonist after Andy Davey, one of our members, left the paper. With Andy’s help we shall be writing about this story and what it represents during the next week but you will get advance warning if you read one […]
The Round-up
Chris Burke, the widely published caricaturist and illustrator – and Procartoonists.org member – gives a local blog a tour of his home and studio in Royal Tunbridge Wells. Read the resulting feature interview, and see plenty of examples of Chris’ work, here. The Guardian has an interview with David Fickling and family – the tribe behind weekly […]
The Round-up
The Premier League was rocked this week by the unexpected news of Sir Alex Ferguson‘s retirement, and cartoonists had a ball with it (sorry). In The Telegraph, Christian Adams put the news in context (above), while Matt Pritchett drew parallels with another recent shock resignation. Over in The Guardian, Kipper Williams considered the impact on […]
The Sun shines on cartoonists
Tim Harries has started drawing a new strip for children in The Sun, one of many Procartoonists.org members providing cartoons for the UK’s best-selling paper. Tim told the blog: “I got a call asking for a strip to run in a kids’ pull-out section of their TV guide during the school holidays. The deadline was […]
Cartoon round-up: Bob Diamond and the MPs
Following our post on Monday about Bob Diamond of Barclays bank, here is how some of the UK’s cartoonists have responded to his resignation and appearance at the Treasury Select Committee at Westminster. If you have seen any more we should feature please let us know in the comments. Our membership portfolios are also full of work like […]
The Round-up
Nick Newman, the prolific gag cartoonist for Private Eye, The Times, The Spectator and others – and a member of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation, which runs the Bloghorn – has been named Sports Cartoonist of the Year for 2011 by the Sports Journalists’ Association. Highly commended were Sun cartoonist Andy Davey (also a PCO member […]