Posts from — March 2008

Steve Bell, creator of the ‘If’ strip in The Guardian and the current UK Political Cartoonist of the Year, will be giving an illustrated talk at the Music Hall in central Shrewsbury at high noon on Saturday 19th April. All tickets cost £4. You can book in advance via 01743 281281 or, if you live nearby, direct at The Music Hall Box Office. Cartoon courtesy of Steve Bell.
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Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival 18th-20th April 2008. The cartoon is courtesy of Dave Brown, who has a one-man show at the event. If you can’t see anything very helpful immediately above this text – click here and download a free Flash player for your PC. If it’s still not working for you, try using an internet browser that isn’t Microsoft Explorer This link is handy for a different, and often better, choice
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Our last editorial cartoon offering from Dave Gaskill who has been the PCO Artist of the Month for March 2008. If you click on the term Dave Gaskill underneath this text you can see all four pieces of Dave’s featured artwork. Bloghorn says click G for Gaskill. Bloghorn will showcase a new artist of the month for April next Friday.
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As is only appropriate, the Shropshire Star newspaper today begins the countdown to the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival.

The event takes place on the weekend of April 18-20, but the main festival exhibition, entitled “But is it Art?”, opens this Sunday (March 30) and runs until April 26.

Click on “But is it art”, under Labels below, to see examples of many PCO members contributions to the show. Below is one from PCOer William Rudling.

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The new issue of the super soaraway Foghorn cartoon magazine, written by and about Britain’s professional cartoonists and joke makers, will soon be available. If you commission artwork in your working life you can get a free copy by clicking the button to your right.

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Here is our second preview of the one-man cartoon show which will be running at Shrewsbury next month. Dave Brown, cartoonist for the Independent, will be exhibiting work from his Rogues Gallery of art pastiches. Here is a recent example looking at the race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democratic party nomination for the presidency for the United States.
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Art critic cartoon by Chris Madden

Another sneak preview of submitted work for the “But is it Art?” show at the forthcoming Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival. This cartoon is by Chris Madden. Bloghorn says click M for Madden.

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We hope you will enjoy our third offering of high quality editorial cartoon drawing from the PCO Artist of the month – Dave Gaskill. If you click the term Dave Gaskill under this post you will find some drawings we showcased earlier this month and some details on his career – or, you could click G for Gaskill here.
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People aspiring to work in creative areas, whether it be drawing cartoons, illustration, graphic design or writing novels, are always fascinated with how other people actually go about it. And, indeed, the usual questions – Where do you draw/write? What equipment do you use? etc – are often as fascinating to those already making a living in these areas.

The Guardian’s Saturday Review section has a regular feature in which we get to poke our noses into the studies and studios of well-known creative types, and what’s the betting that it’s the most widely read part of that high-brow supplement? But did you know there is a blog that provides the same facility?

It’s called On My Desk and features words and pictures from artists and other creative folk, letting us into their home studios and telling us how they work. You can search through the archive or upload your own details if you want to let others know how you do it. Several cartoonists can be found on there, including the PCO’s own Tim Harries and Gerard Whyman.

Have a nose round, it’s fun. It’s a bit like an online version of TV’s Through the Keyhole, so you won’t be able to resist the temptation to adopt a Loyd Grossman voice and whine “Who works in a house like thiiis …?”

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