The Round-up
It’s time for another cartooning news Round-up and we kick off again with a few busy Procartoonists.org members … Rob Murray has illustrated a new book called The Good Psychopath’s Guide to Success by Andy McNab and Professor Kevin Dutton (above, left to right). “Part of the idea,” Rob tells us, “is to get across […]
Curators unmasked at British Library’s major new comics exhibition
Kasia Kowalska reports from Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK “Have we blown your mind?” asked Paul Gravett, the UK’s leading comics expert, at the launch of Comics Unmasked. Together with Adrian Edwards of the British Library and the comics writer John Harris Dunning, he has curated the biggest exhibition of comics in the […]
Success for Shrewsbury festival
The Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, which took place at the weekend, drew huge crowds and was deemed a success by all involved. And it has already been given a major boost for next year. The Shropshire Star reports that the festival has just won a £2,000 grant for next year’s event. Every penny will count as […]
Cartoon festival exhibition opens
The exhibition With a Song in My Art opens at the Bear Steps Gallery in Shrewsbury today (21 April). This cartoon was submitted for the music-themed exhibition by the Procartoonists.org member Glenn Marshall. The show is the first event in the 2014 Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival. The main Cartoonists Live day is this Saturday (26 April) and there’s […]
Festival cartoon: The anticipation …
The Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival is just a few weeks away now, with the main exhibition opening on 21 April and the Cartoonists Live day on 26 April. More details are now on the official website. You can also download a PDF of the festival leaflet here. This cartoon was submitted for this year’s music-themed exhibition […]
Festival cartoon: Moving stuff
Here’s another cartoon submitted for the exhibition With a Song in My Art, part of this year’s Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival. This one is by Pete Dredge a Procartoonists.org member. You can see all our members’ portfolios here.
Festival cartoon: Rock dinosaurs
The music-themed exhibition With a Song in My Art, the main show at this year’s Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival opens a month today, on April 21, at the town’s Bear Steps Gallery. This cartoon was submitted for the exhibition by the Procartoonists.org member Steve Bright. You can see all our members’ portfolios here.
Festival set to be fast and funny
It’s likely that the participants at the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival will look a little like the guy on the left at the end of this year’s Cartoonists Live day (26 April). This year the usual two days’ worth of live-drawing events are packed into that one day. The hours have been extended as a result […]
Festival cartoon: Sound of silence
Pray silence please for another cartoon submitted for the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival in April, where the theme is Music. This one is by Procartoonists.org member The Surreal McCoy. Next week we’ll publish a list of the cartoonists who are attending the festival to draw big board cartoons, caricatures and host workshops.