‘Cartoon Capers: from Cave Walls to Biff’ celebrates Biff cartoons, which have been skewering metropolitan artyfartiness since the 1970s. It’s a two-hour multimedia show mixing classic images with the off-beat often hilarious stories behind them; it also dips into cartoon history and marks the 80th birthday of Mick Kidd, Biff’s writer and co-creator. The readers […]
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CCGB members who would like to host a small social event for fellow members are welcome to contact us with details of what they are planning, and we will pass the details on to others within what we judge to be a reasonable distance so that they can make contact with the organiser (a bit […]
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On the evening of 23 November the Club will be holding a members-only video conference to give people a chance to meet their fellow cartoonists and illustrators. To get the conversational juices flowing we will kick off with a chat about artificial intelligence and how it affects us… And we will see where we go […]
Private Eye submission formats
Ed Clarke (pictured) deals with cartoon submissions at Private Eye and tells me they still get some submissions as hard copy, which is inconvenient. Email is preferred, with cartoons as separate JPG file attachments (i.e. not embedded in the body of the email), ideally no more than five cartoons per issue. File sizes should be […]
Cartoon contests
The European Cartoon Center (sic) has a useful listing of forthcoming cartoon competitions. As ever, those considering submitting their work should read the terms and conditions carefully because sometimes competition organisers try to expropriate your copyright. Also beware infringing the rights of publications that you have previously sold work to: not all will be happy […]
Anthony Smith is in ‘Viz’
Congratulations to Anthony for getting a strip in Viz. Readers of Private Eye will be familiar with his regular feature ‘Logos as they should be’ which has run since 2017. You can find out more about him at http://www.anthonysmithcreative.com/
