Show: Messing about with boats
The Henley Royal Regatta is an essential event in the British social calendar and this year it also includes a quality cartoon show. Pictures of genteel landscapes and nature studies jostle for position with slightly more than an eights worth of Regatta themed cartoons. Visitors will find a large boatload of terrific jokes punted into position […]
Round-up: What the Bloghorn saw
Rob Murray writes: Over at the New Yorker blogs, cartoon editor Bob Mankoff has been looking at what makes a good caption for a gag cartoon – and argues, contrary to popular opinion, that novelty is overrated. Following up, he considers whether it is possible to generate a universal caption that would work with all […]
US Open champion McIlroy bags cartoon
Golf’s man of the moment Rory McIlroy added a unique cartoon memory to his recent US Open victory. You can find the classic handover of artwork photograph in this story from The Sun. Bloghorn hat tips PCO cartoonist Andy Davey.
Mocking the twits of the 21st century
Master Cartoonist John Jensen wrote to Bloghorn about the stories of criticism for the one year postgraduate study into Comics and Visual Communication recently launched by the University of Dundee. We publish his letter below. Tom Harris is an MP whose hobbies include astronomy, science, fiction, cinema, karaoke and tennis. He was a journalist before […]
A degree of ignorance about drawing
If you have been following this story you will be unsurprised that Bloghorn thinks comics, and cartooning in all its forms, are all too readily undervalued in the UK. It is more acceptable in the cultures of Japan, the US and across Europe to consider the narrative techniques and visual artistry employed by commercial artists […]
The degree of visual communication
This story raised a storm about the value of the drawn form as a subject worthy of study. The row provoked by the Labour MP Tom Harris has provided some lively correspondence for Bloghorn. Rob Murray reports: Dr Ernesto Priego, co-editor of The Comics Grid, publicly responded to Mr Harris by asking him whether he […]
Clive Collins appointed MBE
Bloghorn offers congratulation to PCO member Clive Collins who has been appointed an MBE.
Round-up:What the Bloghorn saw
Rob Murray writes: The Telegraph‘s Hay Festival coverage includes an interview with the paper’s own longstanding pocket cartoonist, Matt Pritchett, in which he talks about how he got started, his typical work process and the challenges of producing a daily cartoon. You can read the entire piece here. Elsewhere, New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan […]
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 […]