Roger and out: Chairman steps down
Roger Penwill reflects on more than a decade as chairman of the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival as he hands over the reins: I first approached the town of Shrewsbury with the idea of staging an annual cartoon festival in 2002. Back then very few people knew what a cartoon festival was, including the local council. The […]
Success for Shrewsbury festival
The Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, which took place at the weekend, drew huge crowds and was deemed a success by all involved. And it has already been given a major boost for next year. The Shropshire Star reports that the festival has just won a £2,000 grant for next year’s event. Every penny will count as […]
Shrewsbury 2014: Where to start?
Our first report from this weekend’s Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival is a selection of photos by Mika Schick showing several of the cartoonists starting out on the Saturday morning. We’ll have more pictures and words from Shrewsbury this week.
Festival cartoon: The anticipation …
The Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival is just a few weeks away now, with the main exhibition opening on 21 April and the Cartoonists Live day on 26 April. More details are now on the official website. You can also download a PDF of the festival leaflet here. This cartoon was submitted for this year’s music-themed exhibition […]
Festival details released
The Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival takes place next month and more details of the events have been released. These include the title of the music-themed exhibition: With a Song in My Art – we are featuring cartoons submitted for the exhibition – and details on the live drawing events and workshops on creating strips, mini-comics and, er, farting […]
Opinion: The postcard’s future
Rupert Besley delivers part two of his article on the humble cartoon postcard. You can read part one here Postcards and cartoons are the perfect marriage, the dream team, two forms of relative ephemera, each made for the other. Both are finding life tough at present, as old-style print gets edged out by new electronic media, and […]
Opinion: The postcard is not dead
Procartoonists member Rupert Besley takes a look at a much-loved old form for cartooning: the postcard In 1899 a Norwegian cruise ship doing the coastline despatched 20,000 postcards in the course of one trip*. The unfortunate crewman charged with postmarking each stamp suffered blisters to the hand. In 1903 the British alone sent 600 million postcards […]
Personal Bests: Legacy of the games
It is time to consider the legacy of the original Much Wenlock Olympian Games. Personal Bests from the UK Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation.
Foghorn magazine – Issue 51
Summer is here and our thoughts turn to holidays, so the latest issue of Foghorn, the magazine of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation, looks at the behaviour of the British abroad. The cover is by the PCO’s Robert Duncan. The magazine is available to subscribers for the annual price of £20 for six full colour issues. […]