“Best of Britain’s Political Cartoons 2013” on sale soon

Best Of Britain's Political Cartoons 2013Australian publisher Scribed launched its first UK catalogue earlier this year. Rubbing shoulders with new books such as  High Sobriety: my year without booze, by Scottish-born Melbourne-based journalist Jill Stark and Viennese Romance, the first-ever English edition of the previously unknown novel by the mid-20th-century European novelist David Vogel, is The Best of Britain’s Political Cartoons 2013, edited by local author and political-cartoon exhibitor Tim Benson — the publisher’s first work to be commissioned in the UK.

Officially due for release on 7th November, The Best of Britain’s Political Cartoons offers a perceptive look at the year in politics as seen by Britain’s funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.

Not just a collection, the title is described as “an indispensable portrait of the year gone, and a tribute to the art, power, and intelligence of our finest cartoonists”.

This 2013 edition finds Britain’s leading political cartoonists — including Steve Bell, Martin Rowson, Gerald Scarfe, and many more — at their sharpest and most subversive.

(You may have seen The One Show last Friday, which featured Martin Rowson and Steve Bright. Ben Jennings and Bob Moran were then invited to draw against the clock, live on air. According to this item on  the ProCartoonists blog, the item was supposed to plug this book, but it didn’t get a mention. You can watch the episode on BBC iPlayer here (available until 6.29pm on Friday 1 November).

The collection has been assembled by Tim Benson who runs the Political Cartoon Gallery, where he has organised numerous contemporary and historical cartoon exhibitions. He’s also the author of several books on political cartoonists, including Low and the Dictators, The Cartoon Century: Modern Britain through the Eyes of its Cartoonists and Drawing the Curtain: The Cold War in Cartoons.



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