Festival set to be fast and funny
It’s likely that the participants at the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival will look a little like the guy on the left at the end of this year’s Cartoonists Live day (26 April). This year the usual two days’ worth of live-drawing events are packed into that one day. The hours have been extended as a result […]
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 […]
Festival cartoon: Sound of silence
Pray silence please for another cartoon submitted for the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival in April, where the theme is Music. This one is by Procartoonists.org member The Surreal McCoy. Next week we’ll publish a list of the cartoonists who are attending the festival to draw big board cartoons, caricatures and host workshops.
All together now: A festival cartoon
Here is another cartoon on the theme of Music submitted for this year’s Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival. This one is by Procartoonists.org member Cathy Simpson. The festival exhibition of original artwork and prints will run from 21 April to 17 May. You can see all our members’ portfolios here.
You can’t beat a cartoon exhibition
Music is the, er, theme for this year’s Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival. In the run-up to the event in April we’ll be featuring some cartoons submitted for exhibition at the festival by Procartoonists.org members. Here’s one from Alexander Matthews that first appeared in Reader’s Digest. The festival exhibition of original artwork and prints, all for sale, […]
Tuning up for cartoon festival
Planning is under way for the 2014 Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, the eleventh time the event has taken place in the Shropshire market town. The main cartooning day of the festival, known as Cartoonists Live, will be Saturday 26 April. The festival exhibition of original artwork and prints, all for sale, on this year’s theme of […]
The Round-up
Kasia Kowalska writes: The death of the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon inspired cartoonists on all sides of the political debate. Sharon was famously the subject of a highly controversial award winning cartoon, above, which was based on Goya’s Saturn Devouring his Son. This image sparked a complaint from the Israeli Embassy, but not […]
Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2013 exhibition opening
The festival exhibition opens from Tuesday (2 April) at The Market Hall Gallery in the heart of Shrewsbury. The live weekend, as you can see above, is the weekend of 19-21 April.
Shrewsbury: Now we are ten
This year’s Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival is the tenth one. Appropriately, in this significant year, the theme will be “Time”. The exhibitions start just under a month from now, on 22 March, and the main weekend of events is 19-21 April. But before it all gets going, we thought we’d mark the occasion with a brief […]