The Wireless Cartoonist
Radio isn’t the most obvious home for a cartoonist but thanks to BBC Radio 2’s Alex Lester it has found a regular one. Each month PCO cartoonist Clive Goddard provides a visual relating to one of the many offbeat discussion threads the night-time show throws up. Subjects can range from the secret thoughts of pigeons […]
Doonesbury hits 40
The first ever Doonesbury, published 26th October 1970 American cartoonist Garry Trudeau has notched up 40 years of drawing his comic strip Doonesbury. The strip first appeared as ‘Bull Tales’ in his student newspaper at Yale University from where it was picked for syndication in the national press. As its popularity grew, rights for its publication […]
Workshops at Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2010
The Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival doesn’t actually finish at the end of the weekend. Exhibitions continue in venues across the town and organisers run workshops for people keen to explore the skills of drawing and communication. Cartoonist Wilbur Dawbarn ran one of these events and here are photos from his workshops. Bloghorn thanks Shropshire Council’s event […]
Cartoon secrets revealed
News reaches Bloghorn of a couple of British cartoonists revealing the tricks of the trade. Firstly there’s The Times‘ Peter Brookes explaining how he’ll be caricaturing the party leaders in the upcoming General Election. On drawing the current Prime Minister: With Gordon Brown I’ll start with the hair, increasingly grey and much more coiffured these […]
Daily Mail cartoonist retires
The Daily Mail has announced that pocket cartoonist Ken Mahood is retiring. Mahood, who next year will celebrate his 80th birthday, has drawn news and sports cartoons for the Mail since 1982. His first cartoon was published in Punch in 1948, a magazine for whom he was later Assistant Art Editor, and in 1966 became […]
Matt Lucas to play Gerard Hoffnung
Actor and comedian Matt Lucas (probably best known for Little Britain) is set to play cartoonist Gerard Hoffnung in a Radio 4 play. The play, titled Hoffnung – Drawn to Music is to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of the cartoonist and is due to be broadcast in September. Hoffnung, famous for his […]
Birmingham Post cartoonist retires
Bert Hackett, cartoonist for the Birmingham Post for over 40 years is set to retire. Bert, 75, has drawn both the pocket front page gag and the main editorial cartoon five days a week since 1966, initially alternating with business partner Graham Gavin. This gave rise to their collective pen-name, Gemini, which Bert continued to […]
Celebrity cartoonists
As cartoonist-turned-comedian Phill Jupitus prepares to talk of his love of cartoons on the radio, PCOer Royston Robertson looks at some other celebrities who once wielded drawing pens MEL CALMAN called his autobiography What Else Do You Do?, after the question that is so often put to cartoonists. In fact, there appear to be many […]
Cartoonist questioned
Gerald Scarfe at work in his studio. Photograph by Linda Nylind Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe is the subject of this week’s Portrait of the Artist questionnaire in The Guardian. The PCO: British cartoon talent From the PCO (Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation)