Cartoon Festival Developments

August 26th – The Camden Centre most likely to be the London Cartoon Festival venue August 26th – Abstract Associates provide new management team July 14th - Support from the Mayor of London

July – Derren Brown shows interest in getting involved.

June - Cartoon Festival backed by Visit Britain

May - Cartoon Festival backed by Visit London

Cartoons by Bill Stott

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Whistler’s Cousin

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BILL HAS A DEGREE in Fine Art, Painting and Printmaking [...]

NEW! Cartoonists’ Page!

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!

New Children’s Laureate draws Cartoons!

ANTHONY BROWNE, a children’s writer and illustrator, has been made the Children’s Laureate.

A highly imaginative author with a cartoony illustration style, he has become widely known for the gorillas in his books.

Here is a clip of him showing how he draws one of his gorillas!

I can’t think of anyone better suited for the post. LICF

Can you bring down a government with cartoons?

Jonathan Shapiro [Zapiro] has been doing his best to prevent a government, at least, by his painful cartoons of President Jacob Zuma.  One such showed Zuma with a shower attached to his head, when he made the alarmingly ignorant claims about showering reducing HIV risk.

In a semi-literate population, visual messages are all the more powerful. [...]