McLachlan Laugh-a-thon
Glenn Marshall writes: There was recently a joyous evening remembering Ed McLachlan’s life and cartoons at The Cartoon Museum hosted by Ed’s family, with Private Eye and The Oldie sponsoring. I’ve never seen an event at the museum so rammed full….it almost looked like one of Ed’s large drawings. The evening was organised to mark […]
Things That Go Bump In The Night exhibition
Intro by Sarah Boyce: Have you noticed it’s getting darker in the evenings and things are getting spookier? The owl hooting a bit too loudly, the werewolf howling far off in the distance, the gate weirdly clanking when there’s no wind? To celebrate the spooky, spirit season West End Arts Library at 35 St Martins […]
Herne Bay Cartoon Festival 2025 – photo gallery
Glenn Marshall (the real one, NOT the AI bot!) writes: Once again the promise of vittles, vin rouge & vitriolic ink-slinging lured the cartooning elite (and me) down to Herne Bay for the annual Festival of Cartoonology. Photo reportage of Herne Bay Cartoon Festival, hosted by Beach Creative, courtesy of top roving snapper Kasia Kowalska. […]
PCO Cartoon Awards Night
Photo © Neil Martin A special report from our man in the projection room with the ruffled Vienetta shirt, Glenn Marshall. Now officially the creator of the world’s funniest cartoon ever.* (*Subs, please check) Additional bits from Clive Goddard (who failed to win Best Jacket). Reporting from the glitzy Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation Awards 2024 (AKA […]
PCO Cartoon Awards 2024
Welcome to the inaugural Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation Awards We’ve been thinking for a long time about doing our own, less formal, ‘above a pub room’, type of awards: an evening that doesn’t take itself too seriously and where we’d get together with fellow cartoonists and cartoon supporters and have a lark (and let’s face it, […]
Cartoon Tidings
Cartoon © Rupert Besley Prompted by this wonderful drawing above by Rupert Besley on the inner sanctums of PCO members forum folk have been sharing their Christmas greetings in cartoons form. All very funny so I thought they deserve a wider airing. Merry festivus and best wishes for 2025 from all at PCO Global Communications. […]
Trumpmageddon – Cartoon Special
© Mark ‘Chicane’ Winter If there are any industries that should be thrilled at four more years of Trump it’s the cartoon profession and purveys of orange ink. I’ve been reposting many of these cartoons and caricatures across social media in the run-up to the US election expecting I’d be able to sway the American […]
Saint-Just-le-Martel Cartoon Festival 2024
A missive from our man in Saint-Just, Des Buckley: “3 UK Evacuees placed in French Village” In the heady days of expense accounts & optimism, inky scribblers convened in the Cartoonist Pub (aka ‘Cirrhosis-on-Thames’) in Shoe Lane. Fleet Street was in its pomp. The Cartoonists of that era exhibited a ‘thirst’ for social events. Of […]
Bill Stott 1944-2024
Bill in action at Herne Bay Cartoon Festival. Photo © Karole Steele Pete Dredge writes: Although I had long admired the work of Bill Stott in Punch I only met Bill for the first time, I think, at the Birkenhead Cartoon Festival in 1998. I say “think” because it was very much a case of […]