Welcome back to ‘obscene’ postcards
Bloghorn is pleased to report the recent Margate cartoon postcard exhibition will be back on display in the British Cartoon Archive Gallery, at the University of Kent, from 24 September. This time it will run for six weeks. The original exhibition ran for only ten days but will get a longer run in nearby Canterbury. […]
Obscene postcards? You be the judge
An exhibition of seaside postcards that were banned by local councils in the 1950s opens in Margate this week. I Wish I Could See My Little Willy named after a postcard by Bob Wilkin, above, enraged the authorities in the prudish post war years. The show is being held at the Pie Factory gallery, opposite […]
Cartoon coasts along for 30 years
Cartoons are inextricably linked to the seaside, so it was no surprise that when the new series of BBC Two’s Coast headed to Margate for a piece on the heyday of seaside landladies, they chose to illustrate that with a cartoon postcard. Being very well looked after, detail above, by Rupert Besley, a member of […]
Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2011
Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival kicks off tonight with a drop-in cartoon workshop at the Bear Steps Gallery at 4.30pm, and a talk by Dr Nick Hiley from the British Cartoon Archive on the cartoons of Carl Giles at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery at 7pm, tickets £5. In the meantime, the exhibition Personal Bests opened […]
Making the Giles cartoon exhibition
This cartoon courtesy of the Cartoon Museum, the University of Kent and the trustees of the Giles collection. Bloghorn interviews Nick Hiley, curator of the exhibition Giles: One of the Family which is now on at the Cartoon Museum in central London. Who had the original idea for a Giles retrospective? As soon as the […]
Cartoon exhibition: Giles – One of the Family
Original artwork by Carl Giles. Click to enlarge The exhibition Giles: One of the Family opens today (November 5) at the Cartoon Museum in London. It showcases the work of Carl Giles (1916-1995), the most famous cartoonist of his generation. Born in Islington, London, during the First World War, Giles joined the Daily Express in […]