Clean sweep for The Times at PCS Awards
As we reported yesterday evening, Peter Brookes of The Times won the Political Cartoonist of the Year Awards for 2009. His colleague Morten Morland completed an excellent evening for the News International print title by winning best single image for a drawing of Gordon Brown and President of the US, Barack Obama. The Times has […]
Two political cartoon shows to open
Two political cartoon exhibitions open in London next week, at the Chris Beetles Gallery and the Political Cartoon Gallery. PeterBrookes: The Best of Times, above, is at the Chris Beetles Gallery from Monday (October 12) until October 31. More than 100 of Brookes’s most recent cartoons from The Times will be on display. Signed copies […]
Cartoonists talk to Artists and Illustrators magazine
The August 2009 issue of Artists & Illustrators magazine features an interview with six prominent British cartoonists. Nick Newman, Peter Brookes, Posy Simmonds, and PCOers Morten Morland, Kipper Williams,and John Jensen talk about how they got started in the ‘business of satire’.
Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work during this week ending the 31st July 2009. One: Mike Williams in The Spectator: “Excuse me, could you pass me that magazine?” Two: Martin Rowson in The Guardian: Waiting for the Iraq inquiry Three: Morten Morland in The Times: Too many twits The PCO: Great British cartoon talent Subscribe to […]
Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work during this week ending the 12th June 2009. One: Dan Wasserman in the Boston Globe on job cuts at his own paper Two: Nick Newman in Private Eye: on the latest resignation. Three: and Morten Morland of The Times on the travails of PM Gordon Brown. The PCO: Great British […]
Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work during this week ending the 15th May 2009. One: Morten Mørland in The Times on following orders Two: Len Hawkins in Prospect on getting your kids into the right school Three: and Paul Noth in The New Yorker in a dark alley… The PCO: Great British cartoon talent Subscribe to […]
New job created in newspaper cartooning
Look here and here (scroll down for the button) then read all about it here via Morten Morland of The Times.
Cartoon exhibition: Browned Off!
The Political Cartoon Gallery’s Tory Blues exhibition has now closed so, in the interests of balance, attention is turned to the Labour Party. Browned Off! A cartoon exhibition on the first 18 months of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, opens at the gallery on Wednesday (January 21) and runs until March 14. The show will […]
PCOer Morten Morland wins political cartoonist of the year
PCOer Morten Morland won the Political Cartoon Society‘s cartoonist of the year yesterday. Bloghorn is publishing one of Morten’s Post-it note caricatures of Gordon Brown above. Bloghorn’s alter ego, and the current chair leg of the PCO, Andy Davey said: It’s great that Morten has won this. He’s one of the best cartoonists working in […]