Cartoons continue to bite
From 30 Years of Viz, currently at the Cartoon Museum
“Pictorial satire is so ingrained in our culture that people often don’t realise what a huge part of their lives it is. Not just in comics and newspapers, but also animations, games, advertising, greetings cards”
– Anita O’Brien, Curator, Cartoon Museum
Taken from an article in the Daily Telegraph on 21 years of the Cartoon Art Trust, the charity behind the Cartoon Museum
November 23, 2009 1 Comment
Alex taps into the iPhone
Alex, the satirical City strip in the Daily Telegraph has recently made it’s debut on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Priced at 59p, the Tapisodes app is available at the iTunes App Store and comprises 20 animated strips themed around the credit crunch crisis. The strips will be automatically delivered to your phone one a day over the course of the following month. This video explains it all:
Bloghorn had a few questions for Alex’s creators, Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor:
How long did it take to make the 20 special episodes of Alex for the iphone?
2 months.
Why is getting Alex distributed this way important to you?
We’re always looking for new ways to present work and new people to work with. We did the stage play last couple of years using new digital projection technology. Now fascinated by small screen possibilities for narrative. I actually believe that this is the ideal form for reading comic strip material: the movement, reactions, reveals all enhanced by this medium. Newspapers are also interested in spreading into this field. Seems like a good moment.
Did you do the technological work yourselves? Or, did you use a design agency?
We designed the app and did all the animation. The app itself was developed by the awesome folks at Tag Games in Dundee.
Is the price of the App (59p) reflective of the work that went into making it?
Absolutely not. Christ, you have NO IDEA.
How many downloads have been made during the month trial?
We are not allowed to give out this information, I’m afraid, since we are releasing this first project via our friends at The Telegraph.
Do you have any plans to take the digital Alex to a subscription site?
Never say never.
So, Alex doesn’t prefer a Blackberry?
Of course he has both (plus a spare and several spare sim cards for when he’s up to no good)
October 14, 2009 4 Comments
Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work during this week ending the 9th October 2009.
One: Matt in the Daily Telegraph on the Conservatives becoming more frank
Two: Dave Brown in the Independent on being in it together
Three: Robert Leighton in the New Yorker on driving and texting
Bonus Video: The Guardian’s Steve Bell explains why he draws David Cameron as a jellyfish
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October 9, 2009 1 Comment
Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work during this week ending the 25th September 2009.
One: Peter Brookes in The Times on the special relationship
Two: Nicholas Garland in The Daily Telegraph on
a very public crash
Three: Len Hawkins in The Spectator on paranoid parenting
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September 25, 2009 1 Comment
Cartoon Pick of the Week: Redacted
MPs are back in the news again with the release of their heavily blacked-out expense reports, so Bloghorn has a special round-up of the best of the redacted, censored and otherwise obscured cartoons for the week ending the 19th June 2009.
One: Matt in the Daily Telegraph gives us a historical perspective on the story.
Two: Mac in the Daily Mail shows us a sneak preview of the upcoming Iraq enquiry testimony from Gordon Brown.
Three: There’s a brand-spanking new ceremonial role in the Houses of Parliament in Peter Brookes cartoon for The Times…
Four: …whilst Dave Brown lets it all hang out in the open for the Independent
Five: Steve Bell in The Guardian goes with Tony Blair’s knowledge of torture in interrogations.
Six: It’s all done in the best possible taste for Andy Davey in the Sun
Seven and Eight: …and finally, Paul Thomas in the Daily Express and Tim Sanders in the Independent just can’t find the words…
Note: in the spirit of openness, and unlike the Goverment, Bloghorn believes that you should know all about this. Simply highlight the text above to reveal the redacted sections.
June 19, 2009 No Comments
Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work during this week ending the 22nd May 2009.
One: Christian Adams in The Daily Telegraph on defences over MPs expenses
Two: Mac (Stan McMurtry) in The Daily Mail: “Bad news, Joanna Lumley has called a snap election.”
Three: and Tim Sanders in The Independent on bureaucracy.
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May 22, 2009 No Comments
Shrewsbury is seasonal best for cartoons
Libby Purves - friend of cartoonists © John Roberts for Bloghorn
Libby Purves talks cartoons and the Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival in The Telegraph. The annual event which opens this Thursday, 23rd April 2009.
April 19, 2009 5 Comments
Cartoon Pick of the Week
Bloghorn spotted this great work during this week ending the 20th March 2009.
One: Christian Adams in The Daily Telegraph on banking on the polar ice-caps
Two: William Haefeli in The New Yorker on pop-cultural references
Three: Tim Bales in Prospect on Alcoholics Eponymous
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March 20, 2009 No Comments
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
Bloghorn’s Christmas Pick of the Week
The festive season is upon us, so this week Bloghorn has a bulging sack full of Christmas themed cartoons…
One: Simon Bond in Private Eye: ‘City Christmas Tree 2008′
Two: From Tony Holland in the Spectator, the credit crunch hits the Twelve Days of Christmas
Three: Christmas tree dressing at Number 10 for Peter Brookes in the Times
Four: Martin Rowson in Tribune shows the Three Wise Men investing poorly
Five: The Guardian asked artists, singers and comedians to “reinvent” Santa Claus, including Gerald Scarfe
Six: Royston Robertson in Reader’s Digest on good health at Christmas
Seven: Patrick Blower has a Livedraw animation on media-savvy shepherds
Eight: Will “Wilbur” Dawbarn in Reader’s Digest on the season of goodwill in a bad neighbourhood
Nine: Matt “Hack” Buck in Tribune on the non-jingling tills
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December 22, 2008 No Comments
