Cartoonists prepare to do battle
A team from the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation will once again take part in the Battle of the Cartoonists. (Cartoon above by Bill Stott) The event is organised by the Campaign for Drawing, the people behind The Big Draw, and will take place at the Electrician’s Shop gallery, Trinity Buoy Wharf, in east London this Sunday (23 November) […]
Procartoonists play it again
The Cartoonists (Alex Hughes, Royston Robertson, Robert Duncan, Graham Fowell and Martin Rowson) Procartoonists members can be seen on TV tomorrow (Friday 6 December) as BBC Two repeats the show in which our team took on the Eggheads. The show was originally broadcast in 2009. We ran a report on it at the time but […]
Opinion: Tearing a strip off automated online cartoons
The Procartoonists.org blog notes with interest the rise of Bitstrips, an app that allows anyone to make clip-art style cartoons featuring themselves. Billed as “instant comics and cards starring you and your friends”, they are popular for Facebook e-cards and status updates. We have seen this kind of automation of cartooning skills before. And now, […]
Clive’s gig is a walk in the park
Procartoonists.org member Clive Goddard tells us about a star-studded event I’ve been drawing a regular cartoon for the website of Radio 2’s Alex Lester for four years now, a connection that meant I got asked along to the BBC station’s Hyde Park gig on Sunday. The brief was to draw live caricatures of all the […]
A Surreal view of the Reubens
The Surreal McCoy reports from the US of A: To the city of steel, Pittsburgh, for the National Cartoonists Society’s Reubens awards ceremony. Local artist Rob Rogers of the Pittsburgh Post stoked things up with a seminar on the art of the editorial cartoonist. He was followed by a session on the opportunities for e-publishing and Terri Lieberman […]
The Round-up
BBC Radio 4’s arts programme Front Row spoke to Quentin Blake ahead of the publication of his second volume of illustrated memoirs this week. Listen to the interview here. Alex Scarfe, the son of the renowned satirical cartoonist Gerald, is one of the three minds behind Full English, the new animated sitcom currently running on […]
The Round-up
Fastcocreate.com looks back at the 60-year history of MAD, the subversive comic magazine, in this in-depth article and slideshow. For even more on the subject, MAD’s editors have put together an exhaustive new book. In a short video, BBC News talks to the US cartoonists Pat Bagley and Nick Anderson about lampooning Barack Obama and […]
The Round-up
Ralph Steadman – the acclaimed cartoonist, Hunter S. Thompson collaborator and member of Procartoonists.org – is the subject of a new documentary film, which premieres at the BFI London Film Festival this evening. Watch the trailer of For No Good Reason, above, and read more about the film courtesy of Empire magazine. Sticking with cinema, […]
The Round-up
Above: the US editorial cartoonist Jeff Danziger talks about his work (thanks to Mike Lynch for the video). Alexander Matthews, the Procartoonists.org member whose work appears in The Dandy, Private Eye and The Phoenix among others, writes on his blog about what he sees as the key ingredients for writing a funny kids’ comic strip. […]