London’s Cartoon Museum has announced its next exhibition, Cats in Cartoons, opening on Saturday 5th April 2025, featuring work by cartoonists Hunt Emerson, Ronald Searle and many more.
From Garfield to Simon’s Cat, Krazy Kat to Bagpuss and everything in between, there is a long line of iconic cartoon cats. Now, for the first time, The Cartoon Museum is collecting many of the greatest cats to grace or comics, newspapers and magazines to explore why people love cats so much and what cats tell us about life.
Featuring art and artists from all of the world including Gemma Correll (author of A Cat’s Life), Jim Davis (creator of “Garfield”), Wendy Eastwood, Hunt Emerson (the creator of the unforgettable “Calculus Cat”), Natty Peterkin, Heath Robinson, Axel Scheffler, Ronald Searle (whose cat cartoons became as famous as the girls of St. Trinians), Anthony Smith, Simon Tofield, Louis Wain (best known for his drawings of anthropomorphised cats and kittens) and Ai Wei Wei, the exhibition, which runs until September, will also offer insight into the work of the world famous Battersea Dogs & Cats Home and how they rescue, rehabilitate and rehome cats and their London centre.
Head along to Wells Street in April for a fun feline time!
• Cats in Cartoons Saturday 5th April – Sunday 7th September 2025, The Cartoon Museum, 63 Wells Street, London, W1A 3AE | Web: cartoonmuseum.org
• Fans of Ronald Searle might also want to check out the German Museum of Caricature and Drawing (Deutsches Museum fürKarikatur und Zeichenkunst), where much of his work is held. The museum offers VR tours of its galleries
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Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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