Cartoon Tidings

Cartoon © Rupert Besley Prompted by this wonderful drawing above by Rupert Besley on the inner sanctums of PCO members forum folk have been sharing their Christmas greetings in cartoons form. All very funny so I thought they deserve a wider airing. Merry festivus and best wishes for 2025 from all at PCO Global Communications. […]

The New Cartoonist magazine launched

Cartoon © Mark Winter Pete Songi writes: And it’s launched! The New Cartoonist, a new digital bi-monthly magazine for cartoonists and fans of cartoonists available via ISSUU.com. Full of interviews, reviews, articles, events and best of all cartoons! Ideally viewed on a desktop. Thank you to the cartoon community for submitting and special thanks to […]

Bill Stott 1944-2024

Bill in action at Herne Bay Cartoon Festival. Photo © Karole Steele Pete Dredge writes: Although I had long admired the work of Bill Stott in Punch I only met Bill for the first time, I think, at the Birkenhead Cartoon Festival in 1998. I say “think” because it was very much a case of […]

Tony Husband – A Tribute in Cartoons

All at PCO were shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Tony Husband, one of the cartoon world’s all time greats. There have already been numerous fine tributes written about Tony – here’s a great memoriam by John Freeman on Down The Tubes comics-related blog. Another excellent testimonial with wonderful photos and video […]

Cartoon Campaign Against Whale & Dolphin Cruelty

Mike Stokoe, Sarah Boyce and I weilding our cartoons outside the Commons with additional cartoons on the boards from Dean Patterson, Martin Rowson & Clive Goddard. Glenn Marshall writes: Procartoonists are pleased to be working in collaboration with Whale & Dolphin Conservation on a cartoon exhibition and campaign on the theme of captivity. We became involved […]

Bill Tidy (1933-2023) – A Tribute

Drawing of ‘The Cloggies’  from Bill’s long running Private Eye strip. Rupert Besley writes: It’s funny what sticks in the memory. First kiss, first day at new school, first pint, first dive into a pool… To which I’d add, first sight of a Bill Tidy cartoon.  1965. We’d just moved house and my brother came […]

Wally Fawkes: an appreciation

  Flook illustration Rupert Besley writes: Few people rise to the top of their profession. Very few are still in that position half a century on. And fewer still accomplish that in two careers at once. But this was the achievement of Wally Fawkes, loved and admired equally as jazz clarinettist and as the cartoonist […]

Raise Three Fingers for Myanmar at St Just Cartoon Festival

Our ‘Raise Fingers for Myanmar’ exhibition was recently shown at Saint-Just-le-Martel cartoon festival in France. This was coordinated by PCO Overseas committee member The Surreal McCoy. Cartoonist Rights Network International (CRNI) Executive Director and PCO Member Terry Anderson kindly sent photos of the displays. The exhibition poster Procartoonists Chairperson Clive Goddard wrote the following on the […]

Sempé The Best

Rupert Besley writes: There’s a fine drawing on the cover of Le Petit Nicolas, Le Ballon which shows a small boy with an  admiring smile watching as a slightly battered balloon goes off into the ether above. That’s a bit how the world is left feeling on hearing this week of the death at 89 of […]