Thinking big at mini cartoon festival
Paul Hardman reports on the first Southport Mini Cartoon Festival, which took place on the August bank holiday weekend and was arranged at the very last moment, with little or no budget or publicity I have for many years thought that my now-hometown of Southport in the North West of England would be an ideal […]
Exhibition: Pastiche, Parody and Piracy
Many PCO members feature in an exhibition that brings together cartoonists and contemporary artists called Pastiche, Parody and Piracy and opens at the Cob Gallery in north London on 20 June. The exhibition was put together by the the curator Camilla Ellingsen Webster with artist Miriam Elia and cartoonist Jeremy Banx, with the aim of […]
Festival cartoon: Moving stuff
Here’s another cartoon submitted for the exhibition With a Song in My Art, part of this year’s Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival. This one is by Pete Dredge a Procartoonists.org member. You can see all our members’ portfolios here.
We say gags, they say single-panel
Pete Dredge offers a British perspective in reaction to an American cartoonist’s views on the cartooning game “Single-panel” or “gag” cartoonist? The former is the default description from over the pond and is infinitely preferable to the UK’s more downmarket “gag” label for those of us who create the stand-alone joke. Apart from that, there […]
Counting days to cartoon festival
Cartoonists are sharpening their pencils as it is a month today until the tenth Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival. The big weekend for the festival, when live drawing events will take place, is 19-21 April. For the first time there will be a full programme of events on the Sunday. Before that, the main festival exhibition, […]
Dutch success for cartoonists
The Procartoonists.org members Pete Dredge and Graham Fowell have been singled out in the “Special Mention” category at the 18th Dutch Cartoon Festival. The theme of the exhibition was “Prejudices and Stereotypes”. Pete told us: “I hadn’t entered one of these competitions for many years, probably over 30, so after the promptings of our Feco […]
Cartooning: Can I have that idea please?
One of the prices for the skill of visual thinking is that sometimes other people admire them to the point of purchase, but not for direct attribution. The picture above of the cover of the most recent issue of Private Eye magazine is an example of this. But, er, exclusively, we can reveal the original cartoon […]
Putting on one’s top hat
Cartoonists have to be resourceful creatures because of the range of jobs they are asked to undertake. Procartoonists member Pete Dredge explains more: At the start of the year I had a call from an agency requiring a witty cartoon to publicise a client’s beer festival. This was no ordinary beer festival… Their budget was […]
Private Eye gets services to cartooning award
Private Eye was presented with the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation Award for Services to Cartooning last night. A small delegation from the PCO descended on the Eye’s Soho offices to present the award to Nick Newman, cartoonist and writer at the magazine, above, on behalf of the Editor, Ian Hislop. Accepting the award, Nick said that […]