The Round-up
Kasia Kowalska writes: Hunt Emerson, the comics artist and Procartoonists.org member, is helping launch a new project called Handsworth Creative cic. The “cic” stands for community interest company. The not-for-profit venture is part Lottery-funded and aims to develop creative local history projects by and for the residents of Handsworth, Birmingham. Appropriately, the first product will […]
Festival cartoon: Sound of silence
Pray silence please for another cartoon submitted for the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival in April, where the theme is Music. This one is by Procartoonists.org member The Surreal McCoy. Next week we’ll publish a list of the cartoonists who are attending the festival to draw big board cartoons, caricatures and host workshops.
All together now: A festival cartoon
Here is another cartoon on the theme of Music submitted for this year’s Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival. This one is by Procartoonists.org member Cathy Simpson. The festival exhibition of original artwork and prints will run from 21 April to 17 May. You can see all our members’ portfolios here.
You can’t beat a cartoon exhibition
Music is the, er, theme for this year’s Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival. In the run-up to the event in April we’ll be featuring some cartoons submitted for exhibition at the festival by Procartoonists.org members. Here’s one from Alexander Matthews that first appeared in Reader’s Digest. The festival exhibition of original artwork and prints, all for sale, […]
Education chief is taking the Michael
Opinion: As regular readers will know, Michael Gove gets up Bill Stott’s nose Hmm, he’s at it again, that Gove fellow. Wants to bring back writing lines, detention and – who knows? – six of the best, in the search for his notion of discipline in the classroom. He really hasn’t got a clue, has […]
Opinion: The cartoonist and the editor
Following the news that one of the UK’s mass market national newspapers had removed its weekday editorial cartoonist we asked Andy Davey to write about the strange relationship that lies at the heart of such jobs. For the UK cartoonist, working outside of the beneficence of a major newspaper brings benefits and troubles; editorial freedom […]
Mrs Thatcher and the cartoonists
Powerful people in politics with wealth and helpers mix myth and reality to help deliver a projection of their achievements to the public. Parts of the same formula also drive the work of many cartoonists. Both sorts of visual trickery are now at work in the national catharsis following the death of the former Prime […]
New tools of the trade
The popular growth of consumer screen devices for display of words, pictures and video have meant massive change for the publication trades and all who work in them. Of course this includes cartoonists and we are now starting to see changes to the most traditional of tools to match the big industry trend towards personal […]
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