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 […]
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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 […]
“ChatCCGB”
On 23 November I hosted an informal on-line get-together to give people the opportunity to meet some of their fellow Club members. To ensure that we got conversation flowing, I picked the theme of artificial intelligence (AI) as a talking point–not just the threat it poses, but the opportunities it presents. I broke the proceedings […]
Biff: a multimedia celebration
‘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 […]
