Special report: 50 years of cartoons in Private Eye
Fans of Private Eye cartoons were in for a treat this week, as editor Ian Hislop and cartoonist Nick Newman took to the stage for two separate events looking back over 50 years of visual humour in the magazine – where they picked out a few favourite gags and discussed the challenge of selecting the […]
Opinion: Cheerleading for art, part 2
Bill Stott continues to put the case for better art education in schools. You can read part one here. Of course, Michael Gove could be a keen and knowledgeable student of the arts – first in line when there’s something new at Tate Modern, burning his thumbs on disposable cigarette lighters at Glastonbury, and clamouring […]
The Round-up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4BJvgTO8dks Above: the exiled Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat talks to the BBC about taking on a dictator’s regime with pen and ink. Art Spiegelman, the acclaimed cartoonist behind Maus, Raw and the Garbage Pail Kids, is interviewed for NPR as he publishes a new retrospective collection. Listen to him here. In November, Tate will publish […]
Opinion: Cheerleading for art
Bill Stott writes: Remember your school reports? They become ingrained. Like your first snog. Mine weren’t bad. English, history, art, even P.E. (he was a bully) were all good but then they fell into the maths abyss. That bit was never good. I really didn’t care how long it took six men with rubber teaspoons […]
Young cartoonist contest goes digital
The Young Cartoonists of the Year competition 2013 has opened and for the first time they are accepting artwork that has been created digitally. Although the flyer for the event states “original artwork only”, the Cartoon Museum, which runs the event with the British Cartoonists Association, was happy to clarify, telling us: “If you draw […]
The Round-up
Cartoons of Margaret Thatcher – including The Pit and The Pendulum by Stanley Franklin, above, has been showing at Leeds Gallery over the summer. Read a review of the exhibition here. The British Cartoonists’ Association is on the lookout once again for Young Cartoonists of the Year and will now also accept digitally produced artwork (although […]
Hey Wayne! Cartoon show to hit the North
Procartoonists Bill Stott, Tony Husband, Chris Madden and Bill Tidy will open Hey Wayne! An art themed cartoon show at the Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester. The show is a part of the Manchester Literary Festival and will open on October 12th.
Behind the bandstand
These seaside pictures artfully displayed behind the bandstand in Herne Bay have been saved from a municipal whitewashing. The Jeremy Banx cartoons were drawn at the recent Duchamp in Herne Bay event. Fears that the jokes would fall victim to a “Serco-style” cleaning operation, as noted in part one of the cartoon trio, proved unfounded. Happily, […]
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Procartoonists.org writer Royston Robertson will be giving a talk about cartoons on Bank Holiday Monday (26 August) at the Kings Theatre in Ramsgate, as part of the town’s Summer Squall arts festival. The talk begins at 11am and is completely free to attend. Royston will be showing a selection of his published cartoons and talking […]