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 […]
Festival details released
The Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival takes place next month and more details of the events have been released. These include the title of the music-themed exhibition: With a Song in My Art – we are featuring cartoons submitted for the exhibition – and details on the live drawing events and workshops on creating strips, mini-comics and, er, farting […]
The Round-up
A new documentary is being planned about anarchic TV icon Frank Sidebottom (aka Chris Sievey). In the guise of Frank, Sievey contributed strips to Oink! in the late 1980s. Director Steve Sullivan says the film “will cover Chris and Frank’s whole career, including focusing on his work as a comic creator and illustrator.” Sullivan […]
The Round-up
Kudos to Procartoonists.org member Huw Aaron, who was recently highly commended in the Cartoonist of the Year category of the 2013 Sports Journalism Awards for his rugby-themed strip, North Stand (the prize was eventually won by The Telegraph’s Matt Pritchett for his coverage of the London Olympics). Huw has also been busy with other projects, […]
Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work during this week ending the 17th April 2009. One: Zapiro in South Africa’s Mail and Guardian on Nelson Mandela’s shoes. Two: Pete Dredge in the Spectator on smoking confessions. Three: and finally, Harry Venning’s Clare in the Community in the Guardian on youth slang. Subscribe to The Foghorn The PCO: […]
Cartoon Pick of the Week
We spotted this great work this week … One: Jonathan Pugh in The Times on trouble at M&S Two: Peter Brookes in The Times on the last days of Bush Three: Harry Venning in the Guardian: Clare in the Community The PCO: Great British cartoon talent Subscribe to The Foghorn – our print cartoon magazine