Cartoons kick over the statues at V&A
After much media hoopla, Private Eye: The First 50 Years opened at the Victoria & Albert museum in South Kensington, London, yesterday. The exhibition will run until January 8. The free exhibition explores the wealth of artistic talent that the magazine has showcased since 1961 and features original artwork for some of the funniest Private […]
Foghorn magazine – Issue 48
Just in time for Christmas, the latest issue of Foghorn, the cartoon magazine of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation has been published. Featuring a festive cover by the PCO’s The Surreal McCoy, the magazine is available to subscribers for the very merry price of £20 for six full colour issues – all delivered down your chimney (or through your door). […]
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 […]