26 January – 18 March 2006 Love him or hate him, American President George W. Bush is God's gift to today's political cartoonists. His continual gaffes, awkward dialect, spoonerisms and bloopers are easy pickings for the cartoonists. In Britain, Steve Bell's has been highly successful in metamorphosizing Bush into a gangling dumb-headed ape in the […]
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Stalin’s favourite Cartoonist ‘BORIS EFIMOV’
18 November to 22 December 2005 Boris Efimov is probably the most famous Soviet cartoonist in Russian history and his work was so admired by Joseph Stalin that he managed to survive the latter's purges, although Stalin did have his brother shot. Efimov's work, which regularly appeared in Pravda, was similar in style to David […]
London Laughs
To be opened by London Mayor Ken Livingstone, this Exhibition consists of original cartoons, featuring either London landmarks or issues affecting London, from the likes of James Gillray through to today's leading cartoonists like Steve Bell, Dave Brown, Martin Rowson and Peter Brookes. On view, for example, will be Sir David Low's view of Covent […]
Don’t Lose it again!?
The War-Time cartoons of Philip Zec3 May ? 8 August 2005Philip Zec was the greatest and most controversial cartoonist of the Second World War. This exhibition will include the originals of his two most famous cartoons, ?The Price of Petrol?, which almost led to the Daily Mirror being banned by Prime Minister Winston Churchill when […]
