The post-Christmas Round-up
The gifts may have been exchanged and the turkey polished off, but there’s still time for a few festive treats of the cartooning variety that may have escaped your attention over the Christmas period. You can enjoy every installment of Peattie and Taylor‘s 15-part seasonal Alex tale, It’s A Wonderful Crisis, as it unfolds over […]
Canvassing for charity
Many cartoonists have contributed small canvases to the Stars on Canvas 2012 charity auction, which runs online until 2 December. They include Procartoonists.org members Jonathan Cusick, Noel Ford, Tony Husband, Royston Robertson, Robert Thompson, above, and Kate Taylor. There are also canvases by names from the worlds of sport, music and entertainment. The auction is in […]
Cartoonists? We’ve got ’em
This blog, we hope you know by now, is run by Procartoonists.org, which is home to the UK’s finest professional cartoonists. We’re happy to announce that several leading names in the cartooning business have decided to join Procartoonists.org recently, including the Private Eye regular RGJ, aka Richard Jolley. He has uploaded a biography and some images […]
Shortsighted Observer found wanting
The UK’s Observer newspaper relaunched with a “new look” yesterday, and to ensure publicity it grabbed the headlines with a story about the alleged workplace bullying of the Prime Minister. But the revamp also brought with it another controversy: it ditched cartoons. Gone are the funny and colourful spot cartoons by Robert Thompson, which were […]
Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work this week… One: Matt in the Telegraph on trouble at the banks Two: Martin Rowson in the Guardian on challenging Brown And finally, the funny animal one … Three: Robert Thompson in The Spectator: “OK kids, bedtime!” The PCO: British cartoon talent From the PCO (Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation)
