{"id":106499,"date":"2019-07-29T14:41:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/?p=106499"},"modified":"2022-03-02T09:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T09:18:57","slug":"herne-bay-cartoon-festival-2019-launch-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/herne-bay-cartoon-festival-2019-launch-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Herne Bay Cartoon Festival 2019 launch countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This year\u2019s poster was created for the festival by \u00a9 Marf.<\/em><\/p>\n Sue Austen (Festival Organiser) writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Herne Bay Cartoon Festival has landed for another year. This is the seventh consecutive festival in the lovely Kent seaside town. The theme for this year is Fly Me to the Moon<\/strong> referencing the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned mission to the moon in 1969.<\/p>\n The Fly Me to the Moon\u00a0<\/strong>exhibition is now open at Beach Creative<\/a> featuring new work by PCO members including Dave Brown, Martin Rowson, Kathryn Lamb, Andrew Birch, Noel Ford, Tim Harries, Roger Penwill, Royston Robertson, Des Buckley, Kipper Williams, Jeremy Banx, Gerard Whyman, The Surreal McCoy,\u00a0Rob Murray, Sarah Boyce, Glenn Marshall, Chris Burke, Neil Dishington, Jonesy and others.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Poster cartoon by \u00a9 Steve (Jonesy) Jones.<\/em><\/p>\n Also open now is Book Marks\u00a0<\/strong>at the Bay Art Gallery in William Street. Book Marks\u00a0<\/strong>is a PCO exhibition on the theme of literature and books which has come to Herne Bay from Westminster Reference Library as the first small step on a planned tour of the solar system. The show features work by over 30 members of the Professional Cartoonists\u2019 Organisation (PCO) including a host of familiar cartoonists from the pages of The Guardian<\/em>, The Independent<\/em>, Private Eye\u00a0<\/em>and the rest of the British press.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The festival\u2019s third exhibition is One Giant Leap<\/strong> which will be open from Friday 2nd\u00a0 August at The Seaside Museum<\/a>, 12 William Street, CT6 5NR. This show features work on loan from the British Cartoon Archive<\/a> held at the University of Kent. The exhibition includes original cartoons and artwork from the time of the moon landing in 1969, other Apollo missions and moon related stories.\u00a0 Artists represented in the show include Giles, Trog, Garland, Jensen, Homer, Emmwood, Langdon, Gary Barker, Rowson and Dave Brown.More than 20 cartoonists and caricaturists will descend on Herne Bay for the weekend of 2nd- 4th\u00a0August.\u00a0 On Saturday 3rd\u00a0Zoom Rockman hosts a cartoon workshop at Beach Creative and later the same day Roger Todd will run a puppet caricature workshop there.<\/p>\n On Sunday 4th the weekend culminates with the annual Cartooning Live event on Herne Bay Pier where the visiting artists create giant cartoons, aunt sallies and peep boards. We are promised a balloon Boris will be attacked by seagulls whilst astronaut \u2018John\u2019 Glenn (Marshall) will be attempting Herne Bay\u2019s first moon landing on the town\u2019s iconic pier.<\/p>\n For updates on the Herne Bay Cartoon Festival, follow\u00a0@HBCartoonFest\u00a0on Twitter or go to\u00a0Facebook.com\/HBCartoonFest.<\/a><\/p>\n