Voting ends today in the first ever public cartoon awards run by Britain’s Professional Cartoonists Organisation… The Splats!
Lend support by having a look through some fantastic cartoons and voting for your favourites. Voting ends tonight, 6th January 2025.
You can vote for your favourite cartoons and cartoonists, including creators such as Steve Bright, Steve Bell, Ben Jennings, and Martin Rowson, across eight categories: Best Editorial Cartoon, Best Caricature, the Bill Stott award for Best gag cartoon, Best Current Affairs cartoon, Best Pocket Cartoon Series, Best Strip Cartoon Series, and Best Reject Cartoon.
Vote in as many categories as you like but only vote once here. Your email will not be added to any mailing lists and is only collected to ensure voting is fair. The voting will close at 11.59 on 6th January 2025.
The Professional Cartoonists Organisation promotes the work of its members and champions the cartooning arts across the board and around the world. They organise and support exhibitions and festivals, and also stand up for, and have campaigned on behalf of oppressed artists. All before breakfast.
• There’s more information here about the inaugural Splats! here on the PCO website
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The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “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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