PCO Cartoon Review of the Year 2019

Cartoon © Brian Adcock, The Independent Glenn Marshall reporting from behind the paracetamol bottle: Once more it is time to look back with the traditional (well, third year running) PCO ‘Cartoon Review of the Year’. It was always going to be a very hard task to not just fill it with cartoons about Trump and BORXIT® […]

PCO Procartoonists – The Cartoon Century

Bloghorn asked author, Tim Benson, owner of London’s Political Cartoon Gallery, all about his new book, The Cartoon Century. How long has it taken to write and collate the Cartoon Century? I asked the publishers for three years, but I was given just over a year. It’s amazing what you can do when push comes […]

PCO Procartoonists – Comics Britannia REVIEWED

PCO member Royston Robertson reviews the third episode of Comics Britannia, broadcast on BBC Four 24th September 2007. THE final part of BBC Four’s Comics Britannia covered the period from the late 1970s when comics grew up. OK, maybe “grew up” is not the right phrase – especially as the programme opened with a look […]

PCO Procartoonists – Comics Britannia REVIEWED

PCO member Royston Robertson reviews the second episode of Comics Britannia, broadcast on BBC Four 17th September 2007. You can read his first review here THERE was a very different cast of characters for the second part of the Comics Britannia documentary, and not just on the page. Gone were the quiet, eccentric types such […]

PCO Procartoonists – Comics Britannia REVIEWED

PCO member Royston Robertson reviews the first episode of Comics Britannia, broadcast on BBC Four 10th September 2007. VARIOUS bigwigs at the Beeb have suggested recently that BBCs Three and Four could be axed, in a cost-cutting move. The former is fine by me – there’s only so many times you can watch Two Pints […]