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

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. [...]