Cartoons kick over the statues at V&A
After much media hoopla, Private Eye: The First 50 Years opened at the Victoria & Albert museum in South Kensington, London, yesterday. The exhibition will run until January 8. The free exhibition explores the wealth of artistic talent that the magazine has showcased since 1961 and features original artwork for some of the funniest Private […]
Husband's charity cartoon show
Another Pair of Underpants, an exhibition of cartoons by Tony Husband, is at Tom’s Chophouse, Cross St, Manchester, until November 10. It features around 350 pieces — strips, topical gags and sports cartoons — along with a series of large photos of Tony at work by the photographer Wolfgang Webster. Everything in the exhibition is […]
Gallery takes cartoon show north
The Chris Beetles Gallery of St James’s, London, is taking its collection of cartoons up the A1 to Nunnington Hall, near York, for a selling exhibition entitled Three Centuries of Cartoon Art which opens tomorrow (April 12). Cartoon art spanning the ages will be on view, starting with Thomas Rowlandson from the 18th century, through […]
Cartoonists idle away the evening
Two top cartoonists are to give a talk on their art at a new venue set up in London by the Idler magazine. Jonathan Pugh, pictured, and Tony Husband will host an event called Secrets of the Master Cartoonists at The Idler Academy on March 31 at 7pm. After many years at The Times, Pugh […]
Tony and the tiger
The cartoonist Tony Husband may be well known for his love of the tortoise, but he also has plenty of time for a much-loved and endangered animal: the tiger. Tony has got together with a poet and a musician to organise a charity gig in aid of the wild tiger. Known as the Roar Collective, […]
Tortoise Husbandry
Tony Husband’s tortoise take on England and the World Cup Many gag cartoonists have had their fruitful areas of interest over the decades. The very wonderful Larry (Terry Parkes) spent productive years milking the world of art, and the great, and recently late, Ray Lowry would have been bereft without rock ‘n’ roll or Nazis. […]
New cartoon show opening
A new exhibition devoted to cartoons opens at the Chris Beetles Gallery tomorrow (April 13) and runs until May 1. The 4th Annual Cartoon Show, at the the gallery in St James’s, London, is a selling exhibition which features more than 20 top artists from the past 100 years of cartooning, plus the following three […]
Laughter on willow at cartoon show
With the 2009 Ashes series fast approaching, the Chris Beetles Gallery in London is set to stage A Celebration of Cricket: From Ashes to Zooter The exhibition runs from July 15 until August 8 and features cartoons, illustrations and watercolours from 200 years of cricket. More than half the show will be devoted to cartoons. […]
Local cartoons for local people
Cartoon © Tony Husband The BBC Magazine website has an interview with cartoonist Tony Husband, in which he talks about his drawings celebrating the humble village hall. The cartoons are the fruit of his ongoing tour with performance poet Ian McMillan, which we covered here on Bloghorn last September.