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 […]
PCO Cartoon Awards Night
Photo © Neil Martin A special report from our man in the projection room with the ruffled Vienetta shirt, Glenn Marshall. Now officially the creator of the world’s funniest cartoon ever.* (*Subs, please check) Additional bits from Clive Goddard (who failed to win Best Jacket). Reporting from the glitzy Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation Awards 2024 (AKA […]
PCO Cartoon Awards 2024
Welcome to the inaugural Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation Awards We’ve been thinking for a long time about doing our own, less formal, ‘above a pub room’, type of awards: an evening that doesn’t take itself too seriously and where we’d get together with fellow cartoonists and cartoon supporters and have a lark (and let’s face it, […]
Political Cartoon Awards 2019 – The Results
The winners! Peter Schrank standing in for Peter Brookes, Photo © Kasia Kowalska Clive Goddard writes: Another year of backslapping and mingling with strangers has been and gone at the glitzy Poltical Cartoon Awards. This time the whole event was forced to decamp from its usual palatial venue due to ‘the impending election’ causing everyone to cram […]
Who pocketed the cartoon awards?
Clive Goddard writes: The Political Cartoon Awards have been running for 18 years now, but this year there was something new. The event takes place in a large, swanky hall in central London with subdued coloured lighting, tasty little unidentified canapes being offered by attractive young people and more free booze than anyone has time […]
Cartoon Awards 2011
New in from our friends at The UK Cartoon Museum are the results of their annual cartoon awards. Strip Cartoon Award to Charles Peattie and Mark Warren for Celeb – a long running feature of Private Eye magazine Pocket Award to Neil Bennett – of The Times Joke Award to Neil Kerber – of The […]
Prize guys
On Sunday, the winner of the fourth Cape/Observer Graphic Short Story prize was announced as Stephen Collins. His story – In Room 208 – won him £1,000 and a full reprint of the tale in the Observer newspaper. Collins was chosen by a jury that included comic historian and organiser of the Comica festival Paul Gravett, […]