London’s Cartoon Museum has seen visitor numbers drop by 40 per cent over the past eight weeks. The Museum has now announced it’s extending its opening hours in the hopes of boosting visitor numbers. A combination of events have reduced… Read More ›
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Beasts take over the Cartoon Museum!
Animals have always inspired cartoon and comic artists, from the British Lion to Bunny Suicides, Korky the Cat to Simon’s Cat. Now, London’s Cartoon Museum is to host an exhibition of animal-inspired cartoons. The Animal Crackers exhibition includes works by… Read More ›
75 years of The Dandy exhibition
The Cartoon Museum will be holding an exhibition of all all things Dandy related this autumn
Panel Borders: Exhibiting Comics
Continuing Panel Borders month of shows about about non practitioners’ love of comics, Alex Fitch talks to Lord Baker of Dorking about his contributions as lender and patron of The Cartoon Museum to their latest exhibition ‘Her Maj: Sixty years… Read More ›
Cartoon Museum honours ‘Her Maj’
London’s Cartoon Museum will be celebrating the Diamond Jubilee with a humorous history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Her Maj: 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits of the Queen (1 February – 8 April 2012) will offer a gallery… Read More ›
Comic workshops part of this year’s Bloomsbury Festival
Comic creators Steve Marchant and Sally Kindberg will be on hand to keep kids happy during this year’s Bloomsbury Festival in London. Five years after the first ever Bloomsbury Festival (Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd October, 2011), this annual celebration… Read More ›
Cartoon Museum to exhibit ‘Doctor Who in Comics’
(Updated with thanks to Anita O’Brien): London’s Cartoon Museum has announced it will host an exhibition of art charting Doctor Who’s career in comics, from his very first appearances in TV Comic in 1964 through to the present day. Doctor… Read More ›
No More Places for CB Cebulski
David Lloyd has just been in touch to tell us that there are no more places available for Marvel Comics talent scout CB Cebulski’s appearance at London’s Cartoon Museum (see news story), organised by Cartoon Classroom (www.cartoonclassroom.co.uk). “I wish we… Read More ›
Marvel Comics scout to hold UK portfolio reviews in April
(updated 21/3/11, with thanks to Mark Stafford and David Lloyd) On Friday 8th April (the day before the London Kapow comic convention) London’s Cartoon Museum will be hosting portfolio review sessions with Marvel Comics talent scout CB Cebulski, so anybody… Read More ›
Royal Weddings celebrated at London’s Cartoon Museum
We don’t always get the goods we bargain for in this sham old world! Arnold Taylor @ Bamforth Cards Ltd. ‘Marriage,’ as Elizabeth Taylor commented, ‘is a great institution’ – and she had more experience than most! As Prince William… Read More ›
Ronald Searle Exhibition celebrates a Graphic Master
London’s Cartoon Museum will host a major exhibition celebrating the life and work of graphic master Ronald Searle from 3rd March 2010, marking the talented artist’s 90th birthday on the same day with a more than well deserved bang. Regarded… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Awards, Thought Bubble Signings and Hi-Ex
• Leonie O’Moore, Tony Hitchman and WJC from the “New British Comics” anthology will be present at Thought Bubble convention (Saturday, November 21st) and they will be happy to sign your NBC copies. Signing will be available throughout pretty much… Read More ›
30 Years of Viz Exhibition
In November 1979, DHSS clerk Chris Donald, his 15-year old brother Simon and old school friend Jim Brownlow put together a 12-page comic fanzine in a bedroom of the Donald family home in Jesmond, Newcastle. The initial 150 copies of… Read More ›
The Oldie Book Launch, Exhibition
British cartoonist site Bloghorn reports a book of cartoons from The Oldie is to be published later this month, and an exhibition to go with it will be held at London’s Cartoon Museum. The Oldie Book of Cartoons 1992 –… Read More ›
Engines of Enchantment at Cartoon Museum
London’s Cartoon Museum is to host an exhibition dedicated to the work of eccentric genius Rowland Emett this summer. Described in TIME Magazine as “a nostalgic-romantic artist-humorist social commentator-engineer,” this exhibition brings together, for the first time in Britain, the… Read More ›
Maggie, Maggie, Maggie…
— Out, Out, Out! What’s that? She turned into a man and re-named herself Tony Blair? The cunning minx…
Cartoon Art Trust Award Winners Announced
The 14th Cartoon Art Trust Awards were presented at an entertaining fundraising dinner at The Mall Galleries in London yesterday, an event which celebrates and coincides with the opening of Giles – One of the Family exhibition at The Cartoon… Read More ›
Celebrate 70 years of Comic Mayhem!
Ken Harrison has provided this great illustration for the forthcoming Beano and Dandy exhibition at the Cartoon Muesum in London. While some of the characters featured will be familar to today’s readers of The Beano and Dandy Ken has also… Read More ›