Cartoon Pick of the Week
For the week ending 1st May 2009, we have a Shrewsbury Big Boards Special, a selection of some of the giant cartoons seen at this year’s festival.
One: Steve “Bestie” Best on CO2 emissions
Two: Jacky Fleming’s Mrs Darwin
Three: Kipper Williams looks at a mayfly’s day
Four: Clive Goddard on human resources
Five: Dave Brown’s Frankengordon
Six: Denis Dowland’s not so busy bee
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The PCO: Great British cartoon talent
May 1, 2009 No Comments
Cartoonist of the Year nominations
The nominations for the Press Gazette’s British Press Awards have been announced. The event takes place on Tuesday 31 March. There are seven people in the running for Cartoonist of the Year, and they are as follows:
Steve Bell, The Guardian
Dave Brown, The Independent
Michael Heath, The Mail on Sunday
Stan “Mac” McMurtry, Daily Mail
Matt Pritchett, Daily Telegraph
Chris Riddell, The Observer
Peter Schrank, The Independent on Sunday
The British Press Awards have been running for more than 30 years. This year’s ceremony is being held at the Grosvenor Hotel and will be hosted by Channel 4’s Jon Snow.
March 2, 2009 1 Comment
Making fat jokes about politicians
Christian Adams at the Telegraph writes on the challenges of drawing the prime minister and the newspaper’s leader column offers another thought in response. Other papers picked up Christian’s story with Dave Brown of The Independent chipping in here and Martin Rowson popping up on BBC Breakfast.
January 27, 2009 No Comments
Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work this week…
One: Dave Brown in the Independent on the Pre-budget Report
Two: Peter Brookes in the Times on the Death of New Labour
Three: Paul Wood in the Spectator: “It’s pretty chilly out. Do you want to borrow a scarf?”
The PCO: British cartoon talent
November 28, 2008 1 Comment
Victory for Obama: The cartoonists’ view
The time difference between the UK and the USA meant that newspapers here were unable to report the victory of Barack Obama the day after the election. So British cartoonists had another day to gather their thoughts, and we saw the results yesterday.
Two cartoonists noted a certain messianic quality in the President Elect. Peter Brookes in The Times came up with a saintly Obama and Matt in the Daily Telegraph wondered if he could work miracles.
Andy Davey in The Sun saw the election as a new dawn and Paul Thomas in the Daily Express also looked at the notion of new hope for America.
A celebratory tone was notable. Steve Bell in The Guardian depicted a slam-dunking Obama and Dave Brown in The Independent showed his ballooning popularity.
Mac in the Daily Mail had Obama beating racism, to make it to the White House while Matt Buck at Channel 4 News noted how that famous address is changed for ever. Nicholas Garland in The Telegraph took an interesting sideways slant, with a quote from Martin Luther King.
Alex Hughes in Tribune looked ahead to the huge challenges faced by the new President and Patrick Blower, on his Livedraw site, had an animated take on this weight of expectation.
It will be fascinating, of course, to see how cartoonists will react once Obama is doing the job of President, when the news stories are not all positive.
Have you seen any other great Obama cartoons in the UK media? Let us know via Comments below
November 6, 2008 No Comments
Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work this week …
One: Steve Bell in the Guardian on Sarah Palin’s wardrobe allowance.
Two: Nick Newman in the Times on the Madonna/Guy Ritchie divorce.
Three: Dave Brown from the Independent on George Osborne and Peter Mandelson’s boat trip.
Week ending 24th October 2008
October 24, 2008 No Comments
Bloghorn’s cartoon pick of the week
Bloghorn spotted this great work this week. Quite a lot of it appeared to be bashing the Prime Minister …
One: Dave Brown in the Independent on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
Two: Noel Ford in the Church Times on Fairtrade clergymen
Three: Mac (Stan McMurtry) in the Daily Mail on life’s little problems. “Maybe it’s someone to see the house”
Week ending 12th September 2008
September 12, 2008 2 Comments
Cartoon Pick of the Week
As we drift into the sometimes quieter backwaters of the summer news season, here’s a few cartoons that caught Bloghorn’s eye this week.
One:
Dave Brown on lip-reading, from the Independent
Two:
Pete Dredge on the continuing effect of the smoking ban, from the Spectator
Three:
Christian Adams on yawning dogs, from the Telegraph
As previously mentioned, if you’ve seen a cartoon in the last seven days or so that you think deserves a bit of attention, please pop a link to it into the comments below.
August 8, 2008 No Comments
Cartoon exhibition: An Independent Line
An Independent Line – an exhibition of cartoons from The Independent newspaper, by Dave Brown, Peter Schrank and Tim Sanders, is at the Political Cartoon Gallery in London from June 18 until October 18.
The exhibition promises to be a treat for lovers of satire, as it features a wealth of work from the Indie’s three political cartoonists. Drawing on the best of more than 12 years of material, it features cartoons from the John Major years to the present day.
The show will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated hardback book with a foreword by comedian Mark Steel.
The Political Cartoon Gallery is at 32 Store Street, London WC1E 7BS, and is open Monday to Friday 9.30am – 5.30pm and on Saturdays between 11.30am – 5.30pm.
June 4, 2008 No Comments
Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival: Six exhibitions open to the public
Six exhibitions of high-quality cartoon and comic art opened at the Shrewsbury festival yesterday evening. All free to enter and available to all, are the But is it Art? cartoon show and a one man show for Dave Brown of The Independent. The national UK Cartoon Museum has lent a collection for display and there is also a caricature show and contributions from cartoonists and artists from both Belgium and America.
April 2, 2008 No Comments
