This image has been taken down by Facebook for violating their community guidelines. Their algorithms had decided that it “might contain a depiction of nudity” (images of buttocks being prohibited). Nothing to do with the drawing’s implication that artificial intelligence systems sometimes talk out of their backsides, then.
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2024 Splat awards
Our friends at the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation held their inaugural Splat awards on January 16th in London and here are the category winners:
CCGB member honoured
London-based member Pete Songi has been presented with an award for services to cartooning. The ‘Splat’ awards are organised by the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation and were presented in London at their inaugural event, covering 2024, on 16 January. Pete has worked tirelessly to promote gag cartooning by organising well-attended pub exhibitions and launching a digital […]
On-line social
Club members are invited to meet online for an hour at 7pm on Saturday 25 January. This informal Zoom session includes small breakout groups, so you can actively chat with other cartoonists from around the UK (and sometimes beyond). For less experienced cartoonists this is an ideal chance to put questions to longer-established artists: you […]
The Spectator’s new political cartoonist
The Spectator has chosen a winner for its competition to find a new political cartoonist. Thirty-six-year-old Luke Farookhi is a freelance caricaturist and illustrator who studied History of Art at Leeds University and now lives in Leicester.
Contribution to funds
Our late member Pete Shea had a small collection of work by other cartoonists and illustrators. His daughter Liz kindly donated the items to the Club and said that Pete would have wanted any proceeds to go to the Club, of which he was a keen member for 40 years. We are keeping most of […]
