Hey Wayne! arrives
The Hey Wayne! cartoon art show opens this weekend at the Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester. Enjoy a sneak preview of three of the contributing artists at their Procartoonists portfolios which you can find, here, here and here. Chris Madden, Bill Stott and Tony Husband will be joined by Bill Tidy, about whom you may learn […]
Fear and loathing at Cartoon Museum
A major retrospective on the work of Ralph Steadman to mark the acclaimed cartoonist’s 77th birthday on 15 May opens at the Cartoon Museum in London tomorrow (1 May). Steadman @ 77 will feature more than 100 original artworks and span the full range of his work including his first Punch cartoon, from 1956, and […]
Trog, Flook and Humph too!
An exhibition featuring the work of Wally Fawkes, aka Trog, opens at the Cartoon Museum in London today (7 January). Fawkes, who retired in 2005, drew caricatures, political cartoons and strips for the Daily Mail, Punch, The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph. His best known creation is the comic strip Flook, which ran in the […]
Dandy looks back, and forward
The Dandy: 75 Years of Biffs, Bangs and Banana Skins opens at the Cartoon Museum in London today. The exhibition runs until 24 December, effectively out-living the comic itself, as the final print issue comes out on 4 December – 75 years to the day since its launch. The comic will be moving online though, […]
More than Pooh and Mr Toad
E.H. Shepard is still best known for his illustrations for the Winnie-the-Pooh books and The Wind in the Willows, but a new exhibition aims to show that there was a lot more to his work than those much-loved drawings. The Other E.H. Shepard, which is at the Chris Beetles Gallery in London from this Wednesday […]
Hard Times at Chris Beetles Gallery
Hard Times, a new exhibition by the Times cartoonist Peter Brookes, opens at the Chris Beetles Gallery in St James’s, London, today and runs until November 5. The selling show features more than 120 of Brookes’ most recent editorial cartoons from The Times, and ties in with the launch of his new book, also called […]
Review of the Year
As the pencil of 2010 contacts the eraser of 2011, Bloghorn thought it was time to record some of the year’s highs and lows – and to speculate about the new year. But first, news of a PRIZE competition which will be coming on Bloghorn over the New Year Bank Holiday weekend … so watch […]
Two exhibitions mark Searle's 90th
Next Wednesday, March 3, sees the 90th birthday of the hugely influential British cartoonist Ronald Searle. To celebrate, two exhibitions of his work will open on that day. The creator of St Trinian’s (above, from Lilliput magazine) and illustrator of the Molesworth books, who has lived and worked in France since the 1960s, will be […]
Cartoon bargains on sale at gallery
Cartoons by the likes of Ed McLachlan, above, Matt, Nick Newman, Mac, and Tony Husband, can be acquired at a bargain price in the Chris Beetles Gallery’s Sale 2010 which opens in London this weekend. For more details on the Sale, which also includes illustration work and watercolours, visit the Chris Beetles Gallery website.