Tag Archive | "Cartoon Museum"

Her Maj

Friday, January 27, 2012

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The Bloghorn reports on the upcoming unofficial cartooning salute to the Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee – the Cartoon Museum in London has the Her Maj: 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits of the Queen exhibition coming up, opening on Februaryl 1st and running through to April 8th. The Cartoon Museum apparently describes the upcoming [...]

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Knitted Nelson

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

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I love this – the talented @deadlyknitshade – who has previously terrorised London’s Natural History Museum with her huge crocheted squid – with a knitted version of Nel from Blank Slate Books’ fabulous Nelson graphic novel. Pic by the sparkly Sarah McIntyre, snapped at the Cartoon Museum’s Nelson art show. Now we want them to [...]

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Doctor Who in comics

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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Vworp! Vworp! Materialising this very day in London’s Cartoon Museum, Doctor Who in Comics: 1964 – 2011. The history of the world’s longest running science fiction series and comics goes right back through the decades to the William Hartnell era, with comics versions of the wandering Time Lord’s tales being almost as old as the [...]

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Bell epqoque

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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The Cartoon Museum in London has an upcoming exhibition entitled Belle Epoque, which celebrates 30 years of work by the man who has to be one of the best cartoonists working in our satire-happy islands today, the great Steve Bell. Now that would be a great exhibition to take in. Belle Epoque runs from the [...]

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Marriage and cartoons

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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With the royal wedding bearing down on us (evoking tired sighs or excited yipes depending on your viewpoint) the BBC site has a slideshow of the state of matrimony as seen through the lens of the cartoonist over the centuries, from the modern (the upcoming royal wedding comic, give me strength…) to rather classier work [...]

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CB Cebulski at the Cartoon Museum

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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The Cartoon Museum in London’s Little Russell Street will be holding an event in conjunction with the Cartoon Classroom, hosting Marvel’s CB Cebulski, who will be holding three portfolio review sessions on Friday April 8th from 12.30 to 2pm, 3.00 to 5.30pm and 6 to 7pm. David Lloyd and Steve Marchant will also be on [...]

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Ink and the Bottle – Drunken Cartoonists and Drink in Cartoons

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

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Ink and the Bottle is a new exhibition opening to day in the Cartoon Museum in London, billed as “a merry exhibition on the pleasures and perils of the ‘demon drink’ starting with a swig of gin from Hogarth and Cruikshank.” Bloghorn reports that the exhibition also includes works from Heath Robinson, Giles, Gillray, Royston [...]

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Classics of British kid’s animation

Friday, July 9, 2010

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The Cartoon Museum in Great Russell Street, London, has just started an exhibition of work from classic British children’s animation, from the Clangers and Noggin the Nog through Morph, Danger Mouse (powerhouse!!!) and right up to Aardman’s national treasure, Wallace and Gromit. Royston Robertson has a report on the exhibition (which runs until the 5th [...]

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Ronald Searle exhibition at the Cartoon Museum

Monday, February 22, 2010

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Coming up soon, the Cartoon Museum in Little Russell Street, London, celebrates the 90th birthday of cartoonist and St Trinian’s creator Ronald Searle with an exhibition kicking off on the 3rd of March and running through to the 4th of July.

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Cartoon Art Trust Awards

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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The 15th annual Cartoon Art Trust Awards were given out this week in London’s Mall Galleries, reports Bloghorn. The occasion also marked the 21st birthday of the Cartoon Art Trust, the body behind the Cartoon Museum. (Climate Talks by and (c) Morten Morland who won the Political Cartoon Award, cheekily pinched from Bloghorn’s article) The [...]

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30 years of Viz

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Hard to believe but a comic which more or less started out being pasted together in some mates’ bedrooms, sold door to door in local pubs and clubs and stores in the North East of England and which delivered a rude, crude, vulgar but bloody funny pastiche of classic British comics for an adult audience [...]

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