Shrewsbury 2010 #6
The cartoon-reality crossover
News of a movie deal for David McKee‘s Mr Benn – and also of a nice tribute to Festing, or Festive Road. Spotted by PCOer Nathan Ariss
Bloghorn victorious in Battle
After several years as the plucky underdog, the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation’s team, this year rebranded as Team Bloghorn, has finally emerged victorious from the annual Battle of the Cartoonists. Our team came joint first with Private Eye in the Big Draw event in which four teams completed a large banner on the theme of “Now […]
Team Bloghorn announced!
Clive Goddard, Andy Bunday and Nathan Ariss will be representing the PCO in the form of Team Bloghorn at this year’s Big Draw Battle of the Cartoonists challenge on Saturday 12th September, 2-5pm at the Idea Generation Gallery, 11 Chance Street, London E2 7JB (map). Team Bloghorn is understood to be up against Dave Brown’s […]
Shrewsbury 2009 #12
Artist of the Month: Nathan Ariss
Nathan Ariss tells Bloghorn what and who makes him laugh in the last of our posts about him and his work: I admire any stand-up or sit-down comedian who can actually make me laugh as I’m quite a tough audience. I enjoy clever, quick-witted jokes, but I can also go for gentle, human, observational stuff […]
Artist of the Month: Nathan Ariss
Bloghorn’s Artist of the Month, Nathan Ariss explains how he makes his cartoons: I know, this is really that question about which nibs and paper I use, isn’t it? Well, to put the knitted Parker on for a minute, I mostly go for the Gillott’s 404, lightly dipped in FW acrylic ink and drizzled on […]
Artist of the month: Nathan Ariss
Artist of the Month, Nathan Ariss explained to Bloghorn how he became a cartoonist: I feel immensely fortunate to have been born into a creative household where it was entirely acceptable to set one’s sights on becoming an artist, musician, actor or professional itinerant, which is pretty much what I am all about to this […]
Artist of the Month: Nathan Ariss
Nathan Ariss is our featured artist for January 2009. Well, thank you for asking me to be your Artist of the Month dear Bloggy. As your January 2009 pin-up, it falls to me to inject a tone of – dare I say it? – optimism into the current credit-crunchy world of the freelance cartoonist. Yes, […]