Bloghorn: Moving home this autumn
We’re back after our summer holiday with some good news for the autumn. We’re moving to a new home alongside all of the portfolios from our membership of professional UK cartoonists. Packing the boxes will take us a little while but this blog won’t be moving anywhere even though eventually all our new updates will […]
Round up : What the Bloghorn saw
Rob Murray writes: A handsome new book about the use of cartoons in early advertising is released this month by graphic novel and comic art publisher Fantagraphics Books. In 128 full-colur pages, Drawing Power spans from the 1870s to the 1940s and features lesser-known work by cartoonists such as Peter Arno, Thomas Nast, George Herriman […]
Round-up: What the Bloghorn saw
Rob Murray writes: Over at the New Yorker blogs, cartoon editor Bob Mankoff has been looking at what makes a good caption for a gag cartoon – and argues, contrary to popular opinion, that novelty is overrated. Following up, he considers whether it is possible to generate a universal caption that would work with all […]
Shrewsbury perspective
Shrewsbury festival cartoonist Bill Stott writes: Amongst all the frenetic cartooning activity at Shrewsbury – the Big Boards, the caricaturing, strolling players in costume, the music, the wonderful weather and the public throng, two tiny incidents serve to underline the public’s liking for good cartoons. One involved a tiny chap called Pacey who stood with his […]
Review of the Year
As the pencil of 2010 contacts the eraser of 2011, Bloghorn thought it was time to record some of the year’s highs and lows – and to speculate about the new year. But first, news of a PRIZE competition which will be coming on Bloghorn over the New Year Bank Holiday weekend … so watch […]
Big Draw sketched out
The Campaign for Drawing has announced details of the launch event for this year’s Big Draw festival, which is called Make Your Mark on the Future. The London launch takes place over the weekend of October 22 and 23 on the South Bank, between London Bridge and Tower Bridge. Highlights will include free cartoon workshops […]
You say tomato, we say cartoonist …
Bloghorn must take issue with the US political cartoonist Daryl Cagle over a blog post in which he talks about the “cultural” difference between cartoons created in America and those from the rest of the world. Cagle, who also syndicates cartoons through the Political Cartoonists Index argues that there is a ‘‘BIG cultural gap’’ between […]
Instant art – good or bad?
Bloghorn sees more evidence of the speed of digital processing and how it is changing the way images are made. Doodle Cam is a recently launched application for smartphones which provide instant, or real-time animation effects for video shot on that device. The app is made by a firm of developers called MacPhun, you can […]
Drawing expresses ideas well
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