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

Above: Michael Chaney, associate professor of English at Dartmouth College, on how to read a graphic novel. The Cartoon Cafe is now up and running in Eastbourne, following a successful opening earlier this month. Established and run by Timothy Benson, the cartoon historian and author, the venue is open seven days a week, combines a […]

Shrewsbury Cartoon 2013 – report

A small selection of photographs from the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2013.     There will a longer post with details of the artwork made over the weekend coming soon.

Bill Stott to address the nation

Bill Stott, cartoonist, founder member of Procartoonists.org and all-round raconteur, is to appear on this week’s edition of Midweek on Radio 4, chatting to Libby Purves and fellow guests. He told us: “Libby is very pro-cartoonist. I have worked with her many times over the years. Hopefully she’ll ask me nice questions. It’s all unscripted, […]

Shropshire Live talks Shrewsbury

The website Shropshirelive.com has a detailed preview of the 10th Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, which takes place this month (19-21 April). The piece gives another outing to this fine cartoon of The Square in Shrewsbury during the cartoon festival by Procartoonists.org member Wilbur Dawbarn, which originally appeared in The Oldie magazine.