PCO Artist of the month - Clive Goddard

Clive Goddard is the PCO Artist of the month for July 2008. Bloghorn says click G for Goddard.
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New Foghorn cartoon magazine

A shiny new issue of the Foghorn cartoon magazine is hitting the streets imminently - and a subscription to the bi-monthly feast of drawing and jokes (no, really, we got advised we should say this sort of thing) is available via the PCO big blue Foghorn button you can see immediately to the right hand-side of this writing.
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Cartoonist questioned

Gerald Scarfe at work in his studio. Photograph by Linda Nylind

Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe is the subject of this week's Portrait of the Artist questionnaire in The Guardian.

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Award-winning PCO cartoonists

PCOer Martin Honeysett has won the Kyoto International Cartoon Competition for a piece of art on global warming. Fellow member Ross Thomson placed third. You can see a full report on ther work and the stiff competition they faced here. Bloghorn says Click H for Honeysett and T for Thomson.
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Google goes cartoon

The New York Times reports Google will back exclusive cartoon content for entirely digital distribution this autumn. The search company have a deal with Seth MacFarlane, creator of the American animated series, Family Guy, to produce fifty cartoon shorts. MacFarlane describes the work as "animated versions of the one-frame cartoons you might see in The New Yorker, only edgier."
The cartoonist will also create the built-in and drawn advertising in the products.
British cartoon talent

PCO Artist of the Month - Clive Goddard

Clive Goddard is the PCO Artist of the Month for July 2008.

Clive's work regularly appears in Britain's satirical and current affairs magazines, Private Eye, The Spectator, Prospect and The Oldie. He has also drawn for The Times and the New Statesman.

He is, perhaps, best known for this work drawing and illustrating the Dead Famous series of books, for the children's publisher Scholastic.

Bloghorn says click G for Goddard.

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Cartoon exhibition: Beano and Dandy

While we're busy marking 60 years of the NHS this week, let's not forget that another much-cherished British institution has a significant birthday approaching.

On July 30, The Beano will be 70 years old. London's Cartoon Museum will be holding a major Beano and Dandy exhibition to celebrate. It will run until November 2 and will feature Dennis the Menace, the Bash Street Kids, Minnie the Minx, Lord Snooty, and all the gang. More on this nearer the time.

The Cartoon Museum

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