Conference Cartoons for City Company LAST NOVEMBER I was booked to be on site to draw conference cartoons for a well-known City management consultancy. You may well ask “What ARE conference cartoons?” This is a regular requirement by companies when they are having meetings to discuss strategy, formulate new policies or to plan the marketing …
Cartoon Exhibition Astérix in Britain: The Life and Work of René Goscinny at Jewish Museum until September 30th 2018 I HAD THE distinct pleasure of seeing this cartoon exhibition at The Jewish Museum in London. It is an exhibition about the life of the WRITER of the Asterix comic books, René Goscinny who was also a …
IT’S THAT TIME of year again when we amateur astronomers quiver with excitement at the prospect of viewing some shooting stars in the constellation of Perseus. Astronomy and the cartoonist might not seem such a likely fit, but some of us are gazing upwards to the heavens as well as downwards to our drawing boards. …
ONE OF MY best clients often returns to give me a very interesting commissions. A behavioural psychologist with most relevant surname, Dr George Sik and I first met probably some twenty years ago while I was drawing live caricatures at a corporate event at the Cobham Hilton. I remember it as a fairly high-pressured booking …
Cartoons for Magazines IT MIGHT SEEM a bit odd to be talking of supplying cartoons for magazines in this digital day and age, but for ‘magazines’ you can substitute ‘text’. Anywhere where there is a lot of text and where a stock photo simply won’t do, a cartoon illustration, professionally drawn, will always ‘draw’ (excuse …
Cartoon Illustrations for Books OVER THE YEARS I have had the pleasure of drawing many cartoons for books. I had a large number of cartoons and caricatures used in The Book of Football Quotations and supplied covers for The Lady In the Lords by Jane Ewart-Biggs and Gilbert and Sullivan, The Creative Conflict amongst many …
THIS IS A TRUE story encapsulated as a cartoon illustration with text to show how cartoons can add that something extra to articles in magazines, newspapers and books. The simple black and white style of artwork perfectly complements the type and is easy on the eye, not being too distracting yet forming a complete whole …
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IT’S AMAZING WHERE your cartoon illustrations can appear. Since around 2012, I have been lucky enough to have an annual commission from a film screenplay writer which consists of promoting her screenplay with my cartoons displayed on a London Taxi cab travelling around London for a whole month. Except for this one (left) which was …
