Posts from — January 2010

A travelling exhibition of work drawn from around the world opens next week at St Martins-in-the-Fields church in central London. The show is on behalf of The Parents Circle Forum who work for reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here you can see two small previews of work from the exhibition’s last stop in New York.

Featured artists on show include Liza Donnelly, Pat Oliphant, Jeff Danziger, Japan’s No Rio, and Plantu of France. The exhibition is supported by the friends of the Bereaved Families Forum, World Vision and Christian Aid.

The exhibition will run Monday 11th Jan to Sunday 24th Jan and is open daily from 10am-5pm.

The US Postal Service is to honour cartoonist Bill Mauldin with a postage stamp, due to be released in March 2010. Mauldin, who served with the 44th Infantry Division during World War II drew cartoons about ordinary soldiers for Stars and Stripes, the US Army’s newspaper. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 and died in 2003 aged 81.

Also released this year is a series of stamps featuring characters from US comic strips, including Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield and Beetle Bailey. The set, titled Sunday Funnies is due to go on sale in July.

Bloghorn asks: What cartoonists or comic characters would you like to see on British postage stamps?

Following our recent Q&A with him, here are the details of comic artist David Lloyd’s project, Cartoon Classroom. The plan  is  to centralize all information relating to the study of cartoon and comic strip creation in the UK. Historian Paul Gravett and teacher Steve Marchant (author of The Cartoonists’ Workshop) are also founder members of the non-for-profit service.

The website is live at www.cartoonclassroom.co.uk and the trio are currently looking for cartoonists who teach or who would be interested in sharing their skills to register interest there. Alternatively, you can contact them direct here.

Steve Marchant