By Simon Ellinas The number of cartoonists hitching up their skirts and exposing their pulsating talents as party caricaturists is on the increase. So much so that die-hard publications cartoonists are in danger of becoming a minority. Of course, there are many who tackle a variety of cartooning jobs throughout their year but find that […]
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Welcome to the fellowship
The surreal and often dark comic strip The Perry Bible Fellowship has a new home in G2. Tim Dowling talks to its creator, Nicholas Gurewitch The Guardian – Friday September 30, 2005 Others will have their favourites. For me it has to be the one where the boy prays for his grandfather to be alive […]
FINDING NEMETHY – by PAUL BAKER
Hughie Green A few years ago I placed a letter in The Jester (The Cartoonists' Club monthly newsletter) asking if anyone had any information on Stephen Nemethy, a caricaturist whose work used to appear in the TV Times in the mid to late 1970s. He was probably the first artist to get a quiet eight-year-old […]
The History of the Cartoon
By Mark Bryant – Visit Mark's website. l – Introduction ll – The Origins of Cartoons lll – The 18th Century lV – The Early 19th Century V – The Late 19th Century Vl – The Early 20th Century Vll – The New Yorker and the Development of the Cartoon in the United States Vlll […]
WHO OR WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO CARTOON
Cartoonists' Club members discuss their influences Continue reading WHO OR WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO CARTOON
Comics – A Brief History – by Paul Gravett
I. Introduction Comics, narratives told by means of a series of drawings arranged in horizontal lines (comic strips) and read from left to right. These images are commonly separated from each other by being contained within the borders of rectangular boxes (panels), although these are not always used. When words are associated with the images, […]
