Tag Archive | "Ronald Searle"

Ronald Searle, RIP

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

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Sad news just starting to filter out online that we have lost gifted cartoonist and master of St Trinians, the great Ronald Searle. Bloghorn’s Twitter was saying they were hearing reports that the famous British cartoonist had passed away, then a few minutes later Dan Berry spotted confirmation of his death on the BBC news [...]

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Pixar say Happy Birthday Mr Searle!

Saturday, August 27, 2011

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Missed this, but thanks to Tom Spurgeon for picking it up, because it’s a magnificent tribute to a great cartoonist. Matt J, a Pixar story artist marshalled the artists of Pixar to celebrate the 91st birthday of Ronald Searle back in March. And what better way than to get everyone to produce a special Pixar [...]

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Ronald Searle mini-comic

Monday, March 7, 2011

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Matt on the Ronald Searle tribute blog Perpetua has an interesting post – pages from a mini-comic by the great Ronald Searle, The Suicide & Reincarnation Of An Extremely Small Man (1972). I had no idea Searle had ever made mini-comics like this – Matt explains that it is part of a series of books [...]

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The Suicide And Reincarnation Of An Extremely Small Man – uncovered Ronald Searle mini-comic

Saturday, February 5, 2011

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And this is just gorgeous. Ronald Searle’s scratchy, expressionistic explosion of a tale was originally published as volume 41 of a limited edition series from a Belgian publisher called “Les Poquettes Volantes”. Seare’s quoted as saying: ‘the little booklet: Suicide,etc. was Vol: 41 in a continuing series called ‘Les Poquettes Volantes’ from a slightly surrealistic [...]

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Ronald Searle video interview

Friday, March 5, 2010

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Channel 4 News’ interview with Ronald Searle, as an exhibition of his work goes on show in London to celebrate his 90th birthday, is now online to enjoy, complete with some of his art from books and journals from le Monde to the New Yorker; sadly, as the reporter notes, he is probably more recognised [...]

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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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David Tennant in St Trinian’s

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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Outgoing Doctor Who David Tennant will be in the second in the revamped St Trinian’s movies, its been announced. The first in the revived series, which included Russell Brand and Bond girl Gemma Arterton among the cast, did very well at the UK box office, and now cartoonist Ronald Searle’s creations are set for further [...]

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