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 […]
It's all about presentation
It’s something all cartoonists dread: you open up a magazine and see one of your precious works in print but they have done something to it. It may be a changed caption, an amended drawing, the cartoon has been printed too small … whatever, it’s a bit annoying. Here, cartoonist and blogger Mike Lynch takes […]