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Can anyone identify this cartoonist from the signature and style? Someone bought the drawing in a charity shop and is hoping to find some provenance that would make it auctionable for a good cause. Answers to vilnissimo@vesma.com please

This is my favourite drawing from October’s issue of our house magazine The Jester. It’s by my fellow committee member Ian Ellery, who was the featured cover artist. You have to admire a purely pictorial gag. Nice gentle humour and cleverly done.

This drawing by Ross Thomson is my top pick from the September issue of our house magazine The Jester

This is my top pick from the current issue of our house magazine The Jester

I use social media mainly as a broadcast channel, publishing cartoons on their own on a daily-ish schedule for the entertainment of my small following and hoping to get the odd ‘like’ or retweet. But sometimes people add comments. Comments tend to fall into four categories: a helpful explanation of the gag, whether to show […]

How often have you had a cartoon rejected, only to see someone else get the same idea published? It happens all the time and usually purely by chance because, after all, great minds think alike. But it cuts both ways. You can be sure that someone is shouting at the internet or apoplectic with rage […]