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WE’RE JUST chilling out at the moment, quietly investigating potential sponsors and exploring ideas for festival content. No news is good news as they say although we will welcome any general news from the cartooning world. Send your stories to Simon. In October I will be going to the St Just-le-Martel cartoon festival in Limoges, SW France and will bring back a full report. The next London Cartoon Festival Meeting will be Tuesday November 3rd, but this is subject to change. AFTER A SUMMER hiatus of rest and reflection, the wood became clearer from the trees. The absence of a commercially-minded sponsorship manager looked like a gaping hole in the London Cartoon Festival plans. Fortunately, this hole has been amply filled by the arrival of knight in shining armour in the shape of Roger Wilsher of Abstract Associates. Roger is just one of many business-minded individuals who believes the London Cartoon Festival will be a success. And he is prepared to put his money where his mouth is. By funding three months of his Sales Director, Lesley Churchill’s time to go out and drag back the sponsors that we need he is placing a great deal of trust and optimism into the event which is positively inspiring. The next change has been a review of our venue. Whilst Kings Place is the ultimate in luxury and state-of-the-art facilities, its positioning along with a number of other niggling disadvantages made us revisit our number two on the list: The Camden Centre on Euston Road.
We feel that the Camden Centre offers all we need more cost-effectively and its position in the middle a confluence of major transport routes into London make it a surefire winner for walk-by visitors to the London Cartoon Festival.  Look how well placed the Camden Centre is for our thousands of visitors! With these changes and the additional possibility of Derren Brown auctioning some of his caricatures on behalf of our charity, War Child, The London Cartoon Festival can dare to consider the glass half full! THE NEXT MEETING for The London International Cartoon Festival is on TUESDAY 1st September at The Cartoonist Pub, from 19.00 - 22.00hrs. This is a NETWORKING event for anyone who’s the slightest bit interested in cartoons or the graphic arts. Anyone can come along - the more the merrier. The more people who go away and talk about the caroton festival the better. So if you’re an accountant, a life coach or an Orgasm Expert (yes, there IS one) you will be most welcome to join our little bohemian experience. We always have a good time. If you’re on Facebook you can join the Cartoon Festival group and you can sign up for the Cartoon Festival Event. On Ecademy you can join the Cartoon Festival Club and there will be an event set up for you to register there as well if you prefer. Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible! IF YOU ARE interested in the history of cartoons and would like to be able to see exclusive collections, exhibitions and special events, The Cartoon Museum in Little Russell Street is the place to go. Annual membership is available which grants you sepcial privileges such as attending launch nights and discounts for entry to many other events. Their website keeps you up to date with all their activities.  Cartoon Museum Website The Cartoon Museum, 35 Little Russell Street, London WC1A 2HH, Tel: 020 7580 8155 WITH THE SILLY season of August drawing to a close and with movers and shakers returning from Tuscany and the Algarve to their desks, I have started the process of looking for a new SponsorshipManager/Project Manager. ABOVE: Who knows what my new Sponsorship Manager will look like? I will be meeting one tomorrow who comes with high recommendation from an old friend and publishing colleague of mine but would like to hear from anyone who thinks they could help. The task is one replete with stops, starts, irritating red tape, bureaucracy and petty politics. It requires the knowledge and copywriting skills to get under the skin and actual wants and desires of prospective sponsors and the staying power to plough this lonely furrow until the task is complete. SEE! THEY’RE ALL at it now. What looks like quite a big event in the West African country of Angola, the SIXTH Festival of Cartoons and Animation. And it’s being held in the capital city of Luanda. Wonderful to see the artform celebrated in far-flung corners of the world. Here’s the Angolan tourism Office’s press release: Luanda – At least 800 people, among them men, women and children overcrowded Friday, Luanda “Pepetela” Auditorium, during the sixth cartoon and animation festival dubbed “Luanda-Cartoon 2009”. Sponsored by the mobile phone company “Unitel”, the festival happens from 7 to 28 August, counts for the first time with 25 Angolan exhibitors, among cartoonists, painters, illustrators, as well as amateur and professional entertainers. The event aims among objectives at promoting this art in Angola and stimulate upcoming new talents. During the opening ceremony, cartoons by various professionals, besides autographs of magazines were displayed. Titles such as Estória mal contada, Bernardino Pedroto (Horácio Gibelto), Mistério (Albino Nobre), Celmira Machado/Unitel (Olímpio and Lindomar de Sousa), Sketcbook (Tché Gourgel) and Velha Dominda, are among other attractions at the 6th cartoon festival. On Tuesday (11), an exhibition is reserved for students of primary and secondary schools and colleges of Luanda, and on Friday (14), autograph, magazine, live caricature, among others will be opened. The festival closes on 28 of August, with a pocket show with singers MCK, Keyta Mayanda, Leornardo Wuti Edú ZP, among other guests. This event is also supported by Portugal embassy to Angola.
WOW! THANKS to everyone who’s visited so far. That’s one hundred and forty seven thanks to all of you. Keep coming back and checking up on the news and Festival developments. There are going to be loads after the Silly Season is over and important people are back on the ends of their phones and email inboxes. Look at these stats!  Wow! 102 views in one day!
(Click on each image to enlarge and then click again for extra detail.) BILL HAS A DEGREE in Fine Art, Painting and Printmaking and a post graduate teaching degree. Due to a typographical error, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. During teaching in and around Liverpool, the funniest city in the whole of Merseyside, he began a parallel career as a cartoonist and was first published in Punch in the late 70s – an association which lasted up to the magazine’s sad demise some 20 years later. In that time he has worked [and works] for a very wide variety of publications including the Times Educational Supplement, with Libby Purves – Private Eye [when Mr Hislop’s on holiday], major publishers such as Collins and Emap, educational publishers, and celebrated specialist mags like “Classic Plant and Machinery” [honest]. He’s also a regular in the motoring press. Much of his work is editorial – illustrating magazine and newspaper articles. He’s fast and accurate. He has his own ongoing range of cartoon books and calendars via Helen Exley Gift Books looking at the absurdities of Golf Soccer Rugby, Marriage, Sex, Cats, Mobile phones, Computers, Over 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond. He also produces calendars for Moments Calendars and Diaries. Because of his deep practical knowledge of teaching and the challenges of education generally, and the fact that underneath and despite government initiatives and buzz words, schools can be very funny, he is also able to offer unique after dinner presentations which feature at least 25 – 30 big on the spot cartoons. He is a regular on the Educational Conference circuit. He also speaks [and draws] at non-educational functions. See more about Bill Stott Cartoons here! A NEW PAGE has been added. This will become a gallery of website-linked cartoons by cartoonists who are contributing in some way to the development of the festival. Take a look at The Cartoonists Page NOW! Watch this space for news and developments. In the meantime, all old articles can be accessed throught the menu on the left. |
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