Bloghorn spotted this great work this week...
One: Stephen Hutchinson (aka Bernie) in Private Eye on child protection officers
Two: Gerald Scarfe in the Sunday Times on India
Three: A spot of blowing our own Foghorn ... Noel Ford on the cover of the new Christmas issue of the PCO's cartoon magazine. (Below – click image to enlarge). Subscribe to The Foghorn here
The PCO: Great British cartoon talent
It's a US Elections Comedown Special this week...
One: Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury strip in The Guardian on withdrawal symptoms
Two: Gerald Scarfe in the Sunday Times on sweeping up
Three: Liza Donnelly in the New Yorker on the woe of winning
The PCO: British cartoon talent
If you perused the Sunday Times this week, you may have come across a couple of sentences that neatly sum up all that is wrong about the British attitude towards drawings that accompany words.
Cosmo Landesman opens his review of the film Persepolis, which is based on the graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi, with this paragraph:
"I must confess that I have always thought graphic novels were just comic books with literary pretensions. I casually dismissed them as a symptom of our culture’s increasing infantilisation; adults read books, children stories with pictures. Well, having seen Persepolis I’m happy to admit I was wrong."
Perhaps we can take heart from the last sentence – Cosmo has seen the error of his ways! – but it's a little depressing to think that anyone could have got that far in life with the attitude that words=good, pictures=bad.
Clearly the PCO has a mountain to climb. But, hey, we're wearing sturdy boots. Thanks to Rod McKie for drawing the article to our attention.
Let these people put pictures alongside your words ...
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