By Rupert Besley There can’t be many cartoonists whose work can be said to have changed the behaviour of a nation. Nor too many whose work affected the course of fashion. And not too many, either (just two), who went on to edit Punch. The cartoonist in question is Cyril Kenneth Bird, known to most […]
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GOOD GRIEF, YOU’RE AT SOMERSET HOUSE CHARLIE BROWN!
GOOD GRIEF, CHARLIE BROWN! Celebrating Snoopy and The Enduring Power of Peanuts 25 October 2018 – 3 March 2019 Somerset House Snoopy, Charlie Brown and co. have arrived at London’s Somerset House this autumn for an exhibition exploring the world’s most influential comic strip, Peanuts. It is the first significant show on the comic […]
Herne Bay Cartoon Festival now on!
Exhibitions are now open at the sixth Herne Bay Cartoon Festival and more than 20 of the UK’s top cartoonists will descend on the Kentish seaside town next weekend for three days of talks, workshops and live drawing. The first festival event is a discussion featuring The Surreal McCoy and Rachael Ball. They will talk about their work-in-progress graphic […]
‘Make Love Not War Or We’ll Kill You’ Prague Spring 1968 in Cartoons
Fifty years since the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia quashed the Prague Spring, a new exhibition called ‘MAKE LOVE NOT WAR OR WE’LL KILL YOU’ at Czech Centre London looks at how thirteen cartoonists in the Czech and British press interpreted the politics of the time through satire in over forty political cartoons. The dramatic events […]
Playing for a Draw – the wonderful world of football comic art
The National Football Museum is showcasing a homage to the history of football comics with the launch of ‘Playing for a Draw’. The exhibition, developed in association with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, opened to the public on Thursday 5 July. The new display in the museum’s Hall of Fame area highlights the history […]
The Power of Ken Reid
Ken Reid is rightly regarded as one of the greatest and most inventive British comic artists ever! His work spanned from the 1930s until his untimely passing in 1987. Along the way he co created classic characters such as Roger the Dodger, Jonah and Faceache in many publications from The Beano and Dandy to Buster […]
