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Procartoonists.org member Graeme Bandeira is one of a group of artists who will feature in the Fantasista 2013 Exhibition of football illustration this spring. Alongside Graeme’s caricature of Ryan Giggs (above), you can also find his depiction of José Mourinho at the Telegraph site. Libby Purves, Procartoonists.org patron and cartoon fanatic, will be interviewing Private […]
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Bruce Eric Kaplan, the cartoonist and TV writer who signs his distinctive New Yorker cartoons as BEK (above), tells Co.Create about how day-to-day frustrations lead to many of his best ideas. Read the interview and see a selection of BEK’s work here. (Thanks to cartoonist Mike Lynch for the link.) British comics artist Lew […]
It’s Mr Burns wot won it
As America re-elects President Obama, credit must surely be given to this cartoon celebrity endorsement.
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Fastcocreate.com looks back at the 60-year history of MAD, the subversive comic magazine, in this in-depth article and slideshow. For even more on the subject, MAD’s editors have put together an exhaustive new book. In a short video, BBC News talks to the US cartoonists Pat Bagley and Nick Anderson about lampooning Barack Obama and […]
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Above: Jamie Hewlett, the cartoonist behind Tank Girl and Gorillaz, talks about how absorbing drawing can be, and about his own desire to keep improving. (Thanks to Tim Harries for bringing this to our attention.) Now that Alex Hallatt‘s Arctic Circle strip is five years old, she is celebrating the milestone by releasing an ebook […]
Round-up: What the Bloghorn saw
Rob Murray writes: US cartoonist Ted Rall, who put himself up for sale on eBay earlier this month, has written about how his left-wing views have seen him dropped by even left-leaning publications. In an opinion piece titled Rise of the Obamabots, he recounts some of the rejections he’s received from left-of-centre magazines and argues […]
Who owns Obama?
It looks as if a criminal legal case will be brought against the artist who made the ‘Hope’ poster of Barack Obama (below). The New York Times reports Shepherd Fairey is now facing both a civil and a criminal case for his representation of, or from, an original Associated Press photograph which became famous during […]
Cartoon Pick of the Week
It’s a US Elections Comedown Special this week… One: Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury strip in The Guardian on withdrawal symptoms Two: Gerald Scarfe in the Sunday Times on sweeping up Three: Liza Donnelly in the New Yorker on the woe of winning The PCO: British cartoon talent From the PCO (Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation)
Victory for Obama: The cartoonists' view
The time difference between the UK and the USA meant that newspapers here were unable to report the victory of Barack Obama the day after the election. So British cartoonists had another day to gather their thoughts, and we saw the results yesterday. Two cartoonists noted a certain messianic quality in the President Elect. Peter […]