The Round-up
The Iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraye has been sentenced to 25 lashes after an MP took offence at a caricature. The Guardian has more on the story here, and fellow cartoonists, including Procartoonists.org members Martin Rowson, above, and Clive Collins, have reacted with pictures of their own. Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor at The New Yorker, has […]
Cartoonist collects MBE
The cartoonist Clive Collins went to Buckingham Palace last week to pick up his MBE for services to art. Clive, 70, a PCO member whose cartoons have appeared in magazines and newspapers across the world, including Playboy, above, was appointed MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours last year. Read more here and here (though inevitably […]
Foghorn magazine – Issue 51
Summer is here and our thoughts turn to holidays, so the latest issue of Foghorn, the magazine of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation, looks at the behaviour of the British abroad. The cover is by the PCO’s Robert Duncan. The magazine is available to subscribers for the annual price of £20 for six full colour issues. […]
Clive Collins appointed MBE
Bloghorn offers congratulation to PCO member Clive Collins who has been appointed an MBE.
Raise a glass to new cartoon show
An exhibition that is sure to bring some warmth and cheer to the winter opens at the Cartoon Museum in London on Wednesday 24 November. Ink and the Bottle is billed as “a merry exhibition on the pleasures and perils of the ‘demon drink’ starting with a swig of gin from Hogarth and Cruikshank”. We […]
The spirit of Christmas
PCOer Clive Collins writes: Some years ago I received a letter from the USA, from a lad of 14, who loved cartoons. He said he admired my cartoons (sic) and that he would dearly love to be a cartoonist, but that seemed an impossible dream, so might I oblige him with a small drawing, or […]
Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival – The Big Boarders
Kipper Williams of The Guardian is one of this year’s PCO Big Boarders at the festival. Above is one of Kipper’s submissions to the “But is it Art?” exhibition, which is already open in the town. The full list of cartoonist Big Boarders drawing at this year’s festival, over the weekend of Friday 18th and […]
New PCO Foghorn magazine
The new issue of the super soaraway Foghorn cartoon magazine, written by and about Britain’s professional cartoonists and joke makers, will soon be available. If you commission artwork in your working life you can get a free copy by clicking the button to your right. British cartoon talent From the PCO (Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation)
Shrewsbury international cartoon festival – and other events
“But is it Art?” by PCOer Nathan Ariss – another contribution to Bloghorn’s sneak preview of a major exhibition which opens in less than a month’s time and is part of this year’s Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival.In other news, PCOer Clive Collins, a previous cartoonist of the month here, alerts us to a one-off event at […]