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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Asterix in Britain: Life and Work of René Goscinny Jewish Museum London presents a major retrospective exhibition on the life and work of René Goscinny (1926-1977), the ingenious writer of beloved comics such as Astérix and Lucky Luke, an artist who revolutionised the genre and dissolved the divide between learned and popular culture. Over 100 items […]
A special exhibition celebrating the work of Sandwell-born cartoon artist Charlie ‘Chas’ Grigg as an illustrator for the Beano and Dandy is to be launched in Wednesbury next month. The exhibition at Wednesbury Art Gallery which will highlight his work as illustrator of Korky the Kat and Desperate Dan is start on April 4 and […]
They're up! Scenes from the #HBCartoonFest exhibitions Turning the Tide and Gagged at Beach Creative in Herne Bay. With obligatory post-hang #selfie featuring cartoonists Nathan Ariss, Des Buckley and Royston Robertson.
