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

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!

Museum for Comic Book Art in France!

COMIC BOOKS will have their own Louvre in a museum that has been established in Angoulème, south-west France.

The Musée de la bande dessinée possibly has the largest collection of comic books and original comic book artwork in the world.

This collection comprises of 8,000 original artworks and more than 110,000 magazines and comic books covering all [...]

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