Round-up: What the Bloghorn saw
The prolific cartoonist David Langdon, whose long career included work for The New Yorker, Punch and The Spectator, has died at the age of 97. Among his achievements, Langdon claimed to have...
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© Quentin Blake - on display at Chris Beetles Gallery in St James London London’s Chris Beetles Gallery is running an exhibition of work by William Heath Robinson and others, opening on 6th March and...
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© Gerald Scarfe @Procartoonists.org Gerald Scarfe has revisited an old project by producing a new series of cartoons to illustrate the on-screen revival of Yes, Prime Minister. This drawing, above, of...
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A public kerfuffle over a Gerald Scarfe cartoon published after the recent Israeli elections has resulted in a public apology from Rupert Murdoch the publisher of The Sunday Times, the paper in which...
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Gerald Scarfe cartoon of Benjamin Netanyahu @ procartoonists.org The Sunday Times has removed the Gerald Scarfe cartoon from all of its digital editions following the controversy about its print...
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© Ed Fisher/Cartoon Bank @Procartoonists.org Cartoon captions are a major theme in this week’s Round-up. Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, looks back at the work of Ed Fisher (including...
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Amnesty's Know your Rights booklet. Cover cartoon © Ali Ferzat @ Procartoonists.org Amnesty International has come up with a memorable way to remind people about the Universal Declaration of Human...
View ArticleSpecial report: 50 years of cartoons in Private Eye
Left to right: Nick Newman, Ian Hislop and Richard Ingrams Fans of Private Eye cartoons were in for a treat this week, as editor Ian Hislop and cartoonist Nick Newman took to the stage for two separate...
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Gerald Scarfe and drawings from Scarfe’s Bar © The Spectator Kasia Kowalska and Royston Robertson write: Cartoonists and alcohol are often linked, and now one of the UK’s best known political...
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Cartoon © Graeme Keyes The BBC has been looking at how political cartoonists in Northern Ireland coped with covering the Troubles. You can read the article and see an episode of BBC Northern Ireland’s...
View ArticleRound-up: What the Bloghorn saw
The prolific cartoonist David Langdon, whose long career included work for The New Yorker, Punch and The Spectator, has died at the age of 97. Among his achievements, Langdon claimed to have...
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© Quentin Blake – on display at Chris Beetles Gallery in St James London London’s Chris Beetles Gallery is running an exhibition of work by William Heath Robinson and others, opening on 6th March and...
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