Round up: What the Bloghorn saw
Rob Murray writes: French president Nicolas Sarkozy has become the latest real-life subject of a ‘Where’s Wally?’-style puzzle book (others have included Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and Osama Bin Laden). The new book, ‘Où est Sarko?’, takes a tongue-in-cheek view of Sarkozy’s presidency and apparent omnipresence, with the cartoon illustrations depicting memorable scenes from his […]
Round-up: What the Bloghorn saw
Rob Murray writes: Australian current affairs website Crikey asks whether all physical attributes are fair game for caricature, or whether some may leave the cartoonist facing charges of sexism. Too soon? In poor taste? Or a reasonable artistic response to world events? Eyebrows are being raised over at the Washington Post about a new graphic […]
Show: Messing about in boats
One of the displayed cartoons from the membership of the PCO currently exhibiting at Henley-on-Thames.
Show: Messing about with boats
The Henley Royal Regatta is an essential event in the British social calendar and this year it also includes a quality cartoon show. Pictures of genteel landscapes and nature studies jostle for position with slightly more than an eights worth of Regatta themed cartoons. Visitors will find a large boatload of terrific jokes punted into position […]
Round-up: What the Bloghorn saw
Rob Murray writes: Over at the New Yorker blogs, cartoon editor Bob Mankoff has been looking at what makes a good caption for a gag cartoon – and argues, contrary to popular opinion, that novelty is overrated. Following up, he considers whether it is possible to generate a universal caption that would work with all […]
US Open champion McIlroy bags cartoon
Golf’s man of the moment Rory McIlroy added a unique cartoon memory to his recent US Open victory. You can find the classic handover of artwork photograph in this story from The Sun. Bloghorn hat tips PCO cartoonist Andy Davey.
Mocking the twits of the 21st century
Master Cartoonist John Jensen wrote to Bloghorn about the stories of criticism for the one year postgraduate study into Comics and Visual Communication recently launched by the University of Dundee. We publish his letter below. Tom Harris is an MP whose hobbies include astronomy, science, fiction, cinema, karaoke and tennis. He was a journalist before […]
A degree of ignorance about drawing
If you have been following this story you will be unsurprised that Bloghorn thinks comics, and cartooning in all its forms, are all too readily undervalued in the UK. It is more acceptable in the cultures of Japan, the US and across Europe to consider the narrative techniques and visual artistry employed by commercial artists […]
The degree of visual communication
This story raised a storm about the value of the drawn form as a subject worthy of study. The row provoked by the Labour MP Tom Harris has provided some lively correspondence for Bloghorn. Rob Murray reports: Dr Ernesto Priego, co-editor of The Comics Grid, publicly responded to Mr Harris by asking him whether he […]