Caption competition with a difference
An informal cartoon caption competition, which began as a one-off on the Cartoonists’ Club public forum in the summer, is now into its 20th week. Matt Buck spoke to Noel Ford, moderator of the forum along with Nigel Sutherland and Ian Ellery, and asked how this is different to any other caption contest. The competition […]
Noel Ford exhibition packs a Punch
Shrewsbury 2009 #4
Artist of the Month – Noel Ford
Bloghorn quizzes our artist of the month for April, Noel Ford. Which other cartoonists’ work do you admire? How long have you got? Okay, although it’s not in my nature to have “heroes”, cartoonists or otherwise, I do greatly admire the drawing and humour of many cartoonists, alive, dead and in-between. No names, no pack-drill […]
Artist of the Month – Noel Ford
Bloghorn Artist of the Month for April is Noel Ford. Noel was regular contributor to Punch magazine for almost 20 years and is a former editorial cartoonist for the Daily Star. Currently, he is editorial cartoonist for half a dozen national UK publications and he also produces work for calendars, greeting card and book illustration […]
Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work this week… One: Stephen Hutchinson (aka Bernie) in Private Eye on child protection officers Two: Gerald Scarfe in the Sunday Times on India Three: A spot of blowing our own Foghorn … Noel Ford on the cover of the new Christmas issue of the PCO’s cartoon magazine. (Below – click […]
Bloghorn’s cartoon pick of the week
Bloghorn spotted this great work this week. Quite a lot of it appeared to be bashing the Prime Minister … One: Dave Brown in the Independent on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN Two: Noel Ford in the Church Times on Fairtrade clergymen Three: Mac (Stan McMurtry) in the Daily Mail on life’s little problems. […]
Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival – The Big Boarders
Kipper Williams of The Guardian is one of this year’s PCO Big Boarders at the festival. Above is one of Kipper’s submissions to the “But is it Art?” exhibition, which is already open in the town. The full list of cartoonist Big Boarders drawing at this year’s festival, over the weekend of Friday 18th and […]
PCO Procartoonists – Drawing for the stage
PCOer Noel Ford writes: One of the things I love about being a freelance cartoonist is that, apart from my regular editorial slots, I never know what might be just around the corner. In more than 30 years of cartooning, I’ve had my fair share of weird, wonderful and bizarre commissions, but one that stands […]