Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work this week … One: Steve Bell in the Guardian on Sarah Palin’s wardrobe allowance. Two: Nick Newman in the Times on the Madonna/Guy Ritchie divorce. Three: Dave Brown from the Independent on George Osborne and Peter Mandelson’s boat trip. Week ending 24th October 2008 The PCO: British cartoon talent From […]
Cartoon exhibition: Tory Blues
An exhibition called Tory Blues: A Cartoon History of the Conservative Party opens today (October 21) at the Political Cartoon Gallery in London and runs until January 7, 2009. It features original political cartoons charting the history of the Conservative Party from Benjamin Disraeli, through the likes of Balfour, Baldwin, Churchill, Thatcher and Major, to […]
Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work this week … One: Mike Turner in Private Eye on things financial Two: Morten Morland in The Times: “Going down” Three: Paul Thomas in The Express: On resigning Week ending 3rd October 2008 The PCO: British cartoon talent From the PCO (Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation)
Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work this week… One: Peter Brookes in The Times on gunning for Sarah Palin Two: Clay Bennett at timesfreepress.com on Barack Obama: a tough act to follow But enough US elections, already … Three: Wilbur Dawbarn in Private Eye looks at the the gravity of the situation The PCO: British cartoon […]
Cartooning in the silly season
PCOer Morten Morland writes for Bloghorn: I was going to write a post on cartooning during what journalists call the silly season. It would have been about trying to perform when most meaningful politicians are on holiday and the papers are full of exclusives such as “Brendan from Bradford can blow bubbles with his bum”. […]
Graphic novel serialised in The Times
“Unlikely Events: The Times starts a comic strip” by Arthur Watts (click to enlarge) This 1930s Punch cartoon will make current Times readers chuckle, as a full-colour comic strip now appears in the paper every Monday. Excerpt from “The Trial of the Sober Dog” by Nick Abadzis The Trial of the Sober Dog by Nick […]
Why bother with cartoons? Ask an expert
“Cartoonists always go cheerfully and happily straight to the heart of the issue, or the trend, or the argument: they are wise, because they have seen the truth about life, which is that at the heart of everything there lies a joke.” Libby Purves, columnist, broadcaster and patron of the Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival. British […]
Shrewsbury Festival events – the art of reverse caricature
Caricature is the art of exaggerating the features of the face while retaining the identity of the person being drawn. Reverse caricaturing is the art of giving someone the body they may, or may not, desire. Here, one of the PCO’s patrons, Libby Purves, gets reinvented as a bunny girl.British cartoon talent From the PCO […]
PCO Procartoonists on waiting for the phone to ring
PCOer Alex Hughes writes and draws;Overjoyed as I was at the receipt of my DACS payment from the UK Design and Copyright Society just before Christmas, I was slightly miffed to read an article in the Studio DACS newsletter which dropped on my doormat this morning entitled ‘My short life as a political cartoonist’ by […]