Herne Bay Cartoon Festival 2026 Photo Album

The massed band of cartoonists outside the Herne Bay bandstand. Photo © Jason Hollingsworth Glenn Marshall reports: ‘Oh didn’t we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor!’ (Note to self: change destination) Another year, another glorious cartoon festival and this time for the live-drawing day we returned to the sea front and […]

Herne Bay Cartoon Festival 2026: Where Cartoons Meet the Coast

Chris Burke in action the last time the festival live drawing day was in the bandstand in 2016. Photo © Kasia Kowalska Emily from Beach Creative introduces this year’s festival: It’s almost time for a splash of humour, colour, and creativity as the Herne Bay Cartoon Festival returns to the Kent coast. With the theme […]

Desert island cartoon exhibition

Glenn Marshall writes: Over the next few weeks Pete Songi transports us to a desert island with his fourth cartoon exhibition, held at the wonderful Duke of Greenwich pub and doesn’t living on a desert island, cut off from what’s going on in the world, seem an appealing prospect at the moment (naturally you’d need […]

Let It Snow! Show

Glenn Marshall writes: There was a Snow gathering at The Duke of Greenwich pub for the opening of the latest Pete Songi curated exhibition ‘Let It Snow!’ and many brave souls donned their thermal underwear to make the arctic expedition to Greenwich. Thanks to Mark Winter for all the photos. Ed Naylor (Nay) with Pete […]

Summer’s finally here

The latest Duke of Greenwich exhibition opened last Thursday. This is he second exhibition at his venue curated by Pete Songi. Here are few holiday Summer snaps by Mark ‘Chicane’ Winter. Mark and Steve Hamson helped put up the cartoons. Pete hammering it. The show had a overwhelming amount of submissions and features over sixty cartoonists. […]