Opinion: Cartoonists and a new world
The internet is a perfect medium for cartoons. Images can look much more striking on a backlit screen than they ever did in muddy print. So the news that The Sun was dropping Andy Davey’s weekday editorial cartoon slot just as it finally attempted a serious transition to digital first publication is ironic. I am […]
Opinion: The Sun drops editorial cartoons from weekday editions
Andy Davey writes: After more than 40 years, The Sun has cut editorial cartoons from the weekday editions of the paper. The paper has boasted a roster of excellent cartoonists to poke fun at the political shenanigans of the day. Names such as Stanley Franklin, Dave Gaskill, Keith Waite, Paul Rigby, Posy Simmonds, Tom Johnston, […]
What sort of cartoonist?
Bill Stott writes for Bloghorn about different sorts of cartoonist: The UK boasts quite a few inventive, informed and highly skilled political cartoonists many of whom don’t fool easily and must be the bane of leader writers’ lives in their ability to prove that the picture is often worth more than words. However – don’t […]
Shortsighted Observer found wanting
The UK’s Observer newspaper relaunched with a “new look” yesterday, and to ensure publicity it grabbed the headlines with a story about the alleged workplace bullying of the Prime Minister. But the revamp also brought with it another controversy: it ditched cartoons. Gone are the funny and colourful spot cartoons by Robert Thompson, which were […]
