what it’s all about

what’s on

This is still in development, but here are a few of the events:

exhibitions

• The History of Cartooning: from Gillray to today’s foremost cartoonists
• Cartooning Around The World: showing different artistic/cultural values
• The Power of Cartoons in education, business, branding, and message
• Timeline Cartoons: a history of the world from Big Bang to today, and histories of two of our most revered cartoon publications - all in giant cartoon form (to be auctioned on the Sunday for the WarChild charity)
• The LICF 2010 Cartoon Crowns exhibition: cartoons selected for public vote in various categories
• Celebrity Auction Exhibition: all cartoon-related items of-and-by celebrities, prior to the WarChild auction

workshops and games

• how to hand-draw cartoons
• how to draw caricatures
• photo-shopping cartoons
• how to develop cartoon ideas (for both gags, satire and comic strips) - will include workshop competitions for the best cartoon concept, to be drawn by the cartoonist
• how to create cartoon characters
• animation workshops: to show people the basics of simple flash animation

seminars

There will be seminars on various aspects of cartooning, by several respected cartoonists and raconteurs. Details will be posted when available.

caricaturists

There will be 50+ cartoonists and caricaturists from around the world, drawing all day at the weekend for the festival goers. It’s an endlessly fascinating thing, watching artists at work, and the lucky ones can go away with a free picture of themselves or a cartoon to ther own design.

demonstrations

• cartooning and caricaturing: by some of the leading cartoonists and caricaturists
• Big Boards: cartoonists creating artwork on 6ft boards, to be sold at the WarChild charity auction on Sunday
• technological-aids to drawing: Cintiq, Wacom, Pentel airpen, Photoshop
• basic animation: clever computer-aided ways to animate your cartoons

competitions - the LICF Cartoon Crowns

These are aimed at finding the best in cartooning, both for artistic talent and for the power of the message. You can find more details as they are confirmed, on the Competitions page.

awards

These give recognition to those who have contributed most to cartooning (e.g. newspaper editors who use cartoons most effectively) and those who have used cartooning to contribute most to the world. This will include a campaign to provide a plaque/bust of Gillray, considered to be the father of cartooning.

tv shows

We are looking at several possibilities, details will follow.

charity auction

This is for WarChild, our preferred charity. There will be a wide variety of items for auction, all related to cartooning. More details will follow.