Bloghorn: Moving home this autumn
We’re back after our summer holiday with some good news for the autumn. We’re moving to a new home alongside all of the portfolios from our membership of professional UK cartoonists. Packing the boxes will take us a little while but this blog won’t be moving anywhere even though eventually all our new updates will […]
Keeping it brief 15th August 2011
As it says in the subject line
Round up: What the Bloghorn saw
Rob Murray writes: Music by The Smiths has inspired a comics collection, Unite and Take Over, due for release in November. Smiths fan Shawn Demumbrum of Phoenix, Arizona has assembled 13 creative teams to interpret songs by the band as comic strips, each three or four pages in length. Demumbrum, who is currently looking for […]
Foghorn – The magazine by cartoonists
Bloghorn commends summer reading with the NEW* issue of Foghorn magazine due for publication. It’s the only cartoon magazine made by the cartoonists themselves. http://procartoonists.org You can try a digital copy and subscribe to six print issues a year for £20 here. Don’t miss it. * See what we did there?
Round up : What the Bloghorn saw
Rob Murray writes: A handsome new book about the use of cartoons in early advertising is released this month by graphic novel and comic art publisher Fantagraphics Books. In 128 full-colur pages, Drawing Power spans from the 1870s to the 1940s and features lesser-known work by cartoonists such as Peter Arno, Thomas Nast, George Herriman […]
Cartooning in real-time
Response to printed and digital cartoons is now pretty much instant as this tweet about a drawing by Peter Brookes of The Times shows. View Status Peter’s colleague Morten Morland (a PCO member) had a swift response below View Status The standard response of editorial cartoonists to feedback like this is View Status Or complete silence, […]
Obscene postcards? You be the judge
An exhibition of seaside postcards that were banned by local councils in the 1950s opens in Margate this week. I Wish I Could See My Little Willy named after a postcard by Bob Wilkin, above, enraged the authorities in the prudish post war years. The show is being held at the Pie Factory gallery, opposite […]
Round up : What the Bloghorn saw
Rob Murray writes: More details are emerging about The Phoenix, a new weekly comic from the former editor of the short-lived DFC that is due to launch in January. The Phoenix blog features an animated trailer for one of its strips, ‘The Pirates of Pangaea’ by Daniel Hartwell and Neill Cameron, while its latest email […]
Have pen, will travel
Mac of the Daily Mail writes about a low technology joy of cartooning on the road in this travel piece for his employer. It is a nice read and shows, at least to Bloghorn, that many cartoonists are equally comfortable when combining picture and word to make memorable communication. Seen any other examples of cartoonists who […]