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ISSUE 378 – OCTOBER 2005
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AUTUMN 2005
The Jester
GB OR NOT GB?
“Whaddya mean it looks nothing like you?”
TIME FOR A NAME CHANGE? / BIG DEBATE DEFLATED
PAUL BAKER ON THE STRANGE LIFE OF STEPHEN NEMETHY
BILL RITCHIE’S TRIBUTE TO JOE LEE / FASHION FUNNIES
TIM HARRIES TAKES FLIGHT / CLUB WEBSITE’S NEW LOOK
EMBARRASSING MOMENTS / PLUS STRIPS, NEWS & MORE
The Newsletter of the Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain
THE JESTER ISSUE 378 – OCTOBER 2005
The Jester
Issue 378 - October 2005
CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK
News
Satirists face jail
Published 11 times a year
by The Cartoonists’ Club
of Great Britain
The CCGB Committee
Chairman: Terry Christien
020–8892 3621
[email protected]
Secretary: Richard Tomes
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Treasurer: Jill Kearney
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Les Barton: 01895–236 732
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Clive Collins: 01702–557 205
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Neil Dishington: 020–8505 0134
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Ian Ellery: 01424–718 209
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Graham Fowell: 020–8590 8942
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Pete Jacob: 01732 845 079
Helen Martin: 01883–625 600
[email protected]
Roy Nixon: 01245–256 814
Jed Pascoe: 01767–682 882
[email protected]
Roger Penwill: 01584–711 854
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Derek Quint: 01984–632 592
Jed Stone: 020–7720 1884
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Mike Turner: 01206–798 283
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Jock Williams-Davies:
01473–422 917
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Jester Editor:
Royston Robertson
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jester_magazine @yahoo.co.uk
Front cover: Tim Harries
Back cover: Pete Shea
Keep ’em coming ...
Cartoon Art Trust
wins £2,500
ANITA O’BRIAN, curator of the
Cartoon Art Trust, won £2,500 in the
Everyday Entrepreneur competition
organised by The Guardian. The
money will be spent on publicising the
CAT’s Cartoon Museum plan.
The CAT was established in 1988 to
promote and preserve the best of
British cartoon art. But in April it was
forced to leave its temporary home in
the Brunswick Centre, near Russell
Square, London. Since then, Anita has
been fundraising to create a new
museum in permanent premises.
She told The Guardian: “I’m the only
member of staff so my job involves
everything from painting walls to
curating exhibitions to organising
cartooning workshops. Britain has a
proud history of satirical and comic art
but few, if any, places dedicated to
sharing it with the public.
“The Cartoon Museum has a
collection of more than 1,000 original
artworks, all currently in storage at
another museum. We hope to open the
new museum at a site in central
London early next year. But we have
to raise £500,000 simply to keep our
heads above water over the next five
years. We get no public money so the
chair of the trustees and I have to raise
it all ourselves. Publicity is essential.
The £2,500 will go a long way towards
publicising the relaunch.”
Everyday Entrepreneur, launched in
conjunction with Zopa.com, offered
£2,500 to people with “interesting,
innovative, worthwhile ideas on how
to spend the money”. Anita was the
winner of the Arts category. The other
categories were Alternative and
Lifestyle.
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ANYWHERE else in Europe, political
cartoons would be considered harmless
satire, designed more to amuse than to
undermine the State. Not so in Belarus.
When animated mini films featuring
President Lukashenko appeared on the
internet, the KGB, the Belarussian
security service, responded
immediately. It raided three apartments
in Minsk, confiscated 12 computers
and interrogated Andrei Obuzov and
Pavel Morozov, the two men who put
the cartoons on their website, for five
hours. Prosecutors have begun legal
proceedings against them and Oleg
Minich, the creator of the cartoons,
which could result in jail sentences of
five years.
The cartoons mocked the leadership
style of Mr Lukashenko, his reputation
for rigging elections and his love of ice
hockey. One showed a weeping
Lukashenko wearing an ice hockey kit
being comforted by President Putin of
Russia, wearing judo gear, after being
deposed by a revolution.
From www.timesonline.co.uk
© Times Newspapers 2005
Shock Jock
CCGB committee member Jock
Williams-Davies appeared on The
Jerry Springer Show on September 9,
on ITV1, with his wife Trish – though
the subject was not “I’m leaving my
husband because of his terrible jokes!”
In fact, Jock, and another bloke,
were appearing as Jerry Springer
lookalikes. So next time you see Jock,
don’t forget to chant “Jerr-y! Jerr-y!”
“The sporran is worn on the
outside, sir.”
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The Chair
Midlands meeting
ALEX HUGHES is keen to arrange a
regular CCGB meeting for members in
the Midlands. The caricaturist told
The Jester: “If anyone in the area is
interested in meeting on, say, the first
Wednesday of the month at a pub in
the city centre, can they let me know at
[email protected]
or on 0121-605 4449. If there’s enough
interest I’ll see if I can get something
moving.”
Deadline change
THE deadline for entries for the Best
Cartoons Never Seen book has been
extended until October 10 (5pm).
Cartoonists are invited to submit
work that they are proud of, yet has
never been published. See last
month’s News for more. Visit
www.bestneverseen.org to enter.
Website relaunch
IF YOU have not been to the club
website for a while, now is the time to
visit – you won’t recognise the place!
Ian Ellery has been hard at work
giving the site a contemporary new
look, adding new features and
content, and making it more easily
navigable. The address is, as ever,
www.ccgb.org.uk. If you have any
suggestions on things that could be
added to the site, email Ian:
[email protected] (See also page 7)
WOTCHA, members so dear. Trust
you’re inwardly digesting these
Jester pages? They’re coming along
very nicely thanks to the Ed,
Royston. And the mention of his
name accompanies our congratulations to Royston and Kath on the
birth of their daughter Penny. How
did he manage it? Every word of the
text for this issue is straight and
upright – quite extraordinary after
so much wetting of said baby’s head!
Well at September’s meet we had
the so-called “heated debate” and
some useful stuff surfaced. Just a pity
more members couldn’t make it to
contribute. It was strongly felt that
our present handbook didn’t really
reflect the current status of cartooning in Britain. This is more than
likely because we were using our
handbook page to advertise to one
another while not paying enough
attention to simply putting down a
good idea, which is what commissioners would expect to see.
This apart, the handbook takes a
year to publish (by the time the
membership responds and it’s all
compiled) by which time it needs
updating! This brings us to an im-
Dedicated
followers ...
THANKS to all who
sent in fashion-related
funnies this month.
They’re scattered
throughout the issue as
usual. I’m also
interested in hearing
your suggestions for
future themes, as I
usually think the next
one up as I’m typing
this ... Off the top of my
head then, as England
did quite well in some
cricket thing recently,
next month’s theme is
sport and games. It’s
Fitness Funnies ...
Games Giggles etc – Ed
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portant aspect: whenever the club
shows, displays, exhibits or publishes
its members’ work to the wider
world, the committee of the day
should exercise its editorial control
by selecting the best work from
members to be put forward
–
thereby keeping us all on our toes.
The other role of the handbook is to
reveal the contact details of members, in order that, if it so pleases us,
we can interact socially. With the
advent of suitable technology, this
should now not be beyond the wit of
your committee to produce an up-todate contact list every year for distribution with The Jester.
A wish for the club to remain with
its original social contact, gettogether type status was strongly
expressed. This prompts us to ask the
membership what they want from the
club, in a “tick the boxes” fashion, to
be sent out very shortly.
We would love to see more out-oftowners from time to time – try to
make it by combining the trip with
some sightseeing, a play, museum, or
who knows what.
Stay bright!
Terry Christien
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The Paranoid Cartoonist
Andy Vine
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Dear Jester
Wait, he’s not finished yet ...
Second nature
I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY agree with
Dish [See Letters last month]. Get
away from your computer screens
and get outside. Take a walk. Be
aware of nature.
It’s best summed up by a McLachlan
colour cartoon in Punch. The cartoon
showed a family in a darkened room,
surrounded by electronic gadgets. The
young lad has drawn back the
curtains to reveal a glimpse of green
lawn and yellow daffodils, the only
colour in the picture. The caption
reads: “Dad – the computer was right.
It is spring.”
Our Editor has to be congratulated
on introducing a monthly theme to
bring out our cartoon talent. There’s
no excuse for our members to not
have a go with at least one cartoon for
his monthly themes.
Bill Ritchie
FURTHER to my earlier tirade, and
having just watched a programme on
ageism on the tele, AND having had
a glass of red wine, or two … I
would like to point out that most of
the best cartoonists in this country
are older, if not all.
I know it appears to be a dying
“trade” but where are the young
Honeysetts, the Dickens, Heaths,
Thompson, McLachlan, Austin,
Collins (sorry Clive, to lump you
with the more mature), Holland etc?
If the latest batch of young political
cartoonists in The Guardian are
reckoned to be the next generation, I
despair. Not funny, not well drawn,
and tame. I was rather put out at the
August committee meeting, at the
suggestion that because some of the
older members of the club did not
know how to turn on a computer it
made them less worthy.
When some of our members start
being as funny as some of the
members who have done it, and are
still doing it, they can talk. We are a
cartoonist club, not a computer club.
Right, I shall email this, see if I
have any email myself, check a
flight to Barcelona, scan a drawing
in, file it, look on the club website
(just joking) and get the old pen out
and draw a funny gag …
Neil Dishington
Best not
I WAS interested to see the bit on
Best Never Seen cartoons [See
News last month]. Having a
cupboard full of rejects, I have often
thought there should be a Salon des
Refusés exhibition somewhere, but
a book is a good idea. However, I
have been unable to download the
entry form from the website on to
my Mac, I keep getting what looks
like a turd in a red circle with a
diagonal across it – no doubt due to
my own computer ineptitude.
Louis Hellman
“Yes, we
have no
bandanas.”
MIKE TURNER
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The deadline for letters
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The Jester is the 12th of
every month.
Letters may be edited to fit
space requirements.
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Website forum
The new-look CCGB
website can be found at:
www.ccgb.org.uk
To access the forum, click
“Members’ Area” then “Enter
the Members’ Forum”
When posting messages on
the forum, please be aware
that some content may be
reprinted in The Jester
The forum sections are:
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Have a chat in the
Cartoonist private-members
bar about anything and
everything
Spittoon The place for
uploads: images, animations,
games, cuttings, links, etc
Jester Archive
All Jesters will be
downloadable here as soon
as they are published Site News and Information
News, announcements
and questions from the
administrators and
moderators of the website
Dont forget: from the
website home page you can
also access the Q&A Forum.
This is a public forum for
asking questions and giving
answers about all aspects of
cartoons and cartooning
Time to drop the
Great Britain?
land, it is said with tongue firmly embedded in cheek.
Roger Penwill: I am very proud of
being British and I feel Britishness is
something we should celebrate and
promote. However, I wonder if it is still
appropriate to have “of Great Britain”
in the club’s name. It does sound
somewhat old-fashioned and arguably
reinforces the conservative image our
profession has in the eyes of some in
the media world. I can’t think of any
other society for any other interest or
activity that has GB in its title … I
suggest the club should shorten its
name and leap enthusiastically into the
21st Century as The Cartoonists Club.
Doug Davies: Steve, Great Britain is
not a reference as to what we think of
ourselves, but, refers to our island geography.
Noel Ford: An interesting and bold
idea, Roger.
Ian Ellery: It’s a good idea to rebrand.
I wouldn’t totally drop the “of Great
Britain” though. I would keep the
name, just make it of less significance
on the public face of the club.
Royston Robertson: I agree that it
sounds stuffy, and more that a bit selfimportant. When I talk to anyone about
it I already say “I’m a member of the
Cartoonists’ Club”. And saying “See
See Gee Bee” is a hassle! But if it
causes major problems we could, as
Ian says, call it:
Andy Gilbert: I too am very proud of
being British. Therefore, promoting the
Cartoonists’ Club of GREAT BRITAIN is one that I relish. I see no reason
whatsoever to change this. Maybe a
little time and energy should be devoted into ascertaining why we have
lost so many members from our flock
over the years … I wonder how many
of them departed company because
they weren’t happy with the name?
Don’t try to fix something that isn’t
broken. After all, wasn’t it the Royal
Mail which was rebranded and look
what a fiasco that turned out to be.
RP: I don’t think comparison with
Royal Mail is fair. They gave themselves a new name that was totally
meaningless so its failure was not a
surprise. (Can anyone remember the
name now? I think it had “con” in it).
Paul Hardman: I am in full agreement with Roger on this one. I don’t
believe it is a case of rocking the boat
although there’s no great harm in that if
all the oarsmen have gone to sleep.
THE CARTOONISTS’ CLUB
of Great Britain
RP: A compromise would be to could
keep “of GB” in our formal business
name, which is only needed perhaps
for the bank account and any formal
documents and promote ourselves as
The Cartoonists Club.
Steve Bright: I’d not only drop Great
Britain from the club name to give us a
clearer, more accurate and more welcoming front (there are some nonEnglish Brits who would baulk at the
idea of joining any organisation that
includes the words Great Britain), but
if I could I’d drop the Great from Britain in all walks of life. It’s pompous,
elitist and vain, and in most parts of the
world outside the green and pleasant
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“Famous Cartoonists UK or Framed
Cartoons UK – take your pick.”
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Pete Dredge: I think “Cartoonist Club
UK” has a more contemporary feel.
A dog’s dinner of a job
Mike Turner: Are we to take it that,
with a change of name, all those who
advocate this will then be seen at the
monthly meetings? Having the words
Great Britain in the name has never
stopped anyone coming to the club
any more than dropping the GB will
have members coming to the club.
Alex Hughes: I’ll put my vote for a
“yes” to a change, if it comes to that.
CCGB is a fairly horribly acronym.
Simon Ellinas: Something no one else
has mentioned is the archaic, dusty
word “club”. Does anyone really want
to belong to a club anymore? We don’t
want to be seen as a bunch of old
fuddy-duddies, do we? So get rid of
the word club as well. What does that
leave us with? “The Cartoonists”.
Probably a little sparse. What’s wrong
with … The Cartoon Society.
NF: NOOOOOooooooooooooo!
Tim Harries: Cartoon Society
sounds a bit too pompous to me. I
think “club” strikes the right note of
social interaction. The Great Britain
part I could take or leave, hadn’t
really thought about it. I notice the
American cartoon organisation is
called the National Cartoonists Society – no mention of America or USA.
Friday meetings?
Noel Ford: [Discussing poor attendance at meetings ...] I suggest that it
is not so much the geographical location as the day. Tuesday is, for the
majority of members, an impossibility. The Cartoonist is not available to
us on Fridays (the best possible
weekday for a meeting). So, think …
what is the better option? Midweek
meetings at our long-established
venue, to which few members can
come, or a Friday meeting at a new
venue, to which those of us who are
prepared to make the effort, will do
our best to get to? At least on a Friday
we could stay overnight and thus get
around the abysmal train service.
Perhaps it is time for the holy cow
which is The Cartoonist, to go. At the
moment, the CCGB is a social club to
whose social events only a tiny percentage of the membership come.
“I’m dead against changing the club
name. I’ve just bought this T-shirt.”
Andy Gilbert: A Friday meet would
make more sense and be more convenient for a lot of members.
Roger Penwill: It might encourage
other halves to come along too, especially for an overnight stay and the
prospect of Saturday morning shopping! (Bit of a two-edged sword).
Paul Houghton: Friday definitely
gets my vote too. I teach Tuesday
afternoons and Wednesday mornings,
which is why, despite being really
keen to meet people, I haven’t met
anyone else in the club.
Anthony Hutchings: I’d be up for it
(there’s some of your ugly mugs l
haven’t seen in years!)
What are your views on “Great
Britain” as part of the club name?
And would you prefer to attend
meetings on a Friday? Send your
views by post or email to the Jester.
Andy Davey: This one caps them all.
I just got an enquiry form a “dog
lovers’ lifestyle magazine” wanting a
“caricaturist to work alongside our
celebrity interviews”. They went on
to explain ... “Each issue when we
have interviewed a celebrity, we send
our celebrities a gift hamper including
items for themselves and their pets
and we’re looking to offer them a
caricature of their dog(s) within this
hamper. In exchange for offering our
celebrities this, we will promote you
and your work, with information,
images and contact information about
yourself and your services and you
are also able to quote work you have
done, on behalf of ourselves for our
celebrities, for your client base.”
So in summary: draw weekly caricatures of celebrities’ dogs for no fee.
Poet’s corner
The following bit of inspired lyricism
came from a forum thread discussing
the joys of the postal service:
My old man’s a postie
He wears a postie’s hat
He folds my magazines in half
Although they’d go through flat
I’d write a letter to complain
But what chance of success?
They’d shake-it, break-it, then
they’d take it
To the wrong address!
Noel Ford
Please don’t send your poems to the
usual address. (Probably wouldn’t
receive them anyway).
Important notice: Jester cartoons
AS PART of the redesign of the club website by Ian Ellery (check it
out at www.ccgb.org.uk, it’s great!) some cartoons published in The
Jester will in future appear in the “Random Members’ Images” file
on the website. The random image appears on the front page of the
site and changes daily.
If you do NOT want any cartoons that have been published in
The Jester since I took over in June to appear, please let me know by
email or post. Please also make this clear when submitting cartoons
in the future.
Some cartoons which have not appeared in the Jester, due to a lack
of space, may also be submitted to the website. Clearly only cartoons
that would be understood by the general public would be used, not
gags about club issues and in-jokes!
Royston Robertson
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At last, it’s
THE HEATED
... er, DEFLATE!
After much fanfare in these pages, and on the website, the “Heated Debate” on the
future of the club, which took place at the September meeting, was somewhat
poorly attended. Here some members who did make the trip give their recollections
of the night, starting with Andy Davey who, after all, started all this …
ALEX NOEL WATSON was unable to
attend the debate as the perennial
globetrotter was in Prague at the time.
Prior to the debate, however, he sent
The Jester a few thoughts on some
matters arising.
THE club has long included both
professionals and amateurs, and this
has caused problems with the
handbook. Alongside professional
work, we’ve had a few sub-standard
cartoons, clearly undesirable for the
image of the club. Cartoons for the
handbook in future should be edited
by the committee, with possibly one
or two co-opted professionals from the
general membership.
I feel that the handbook must remain;
it should not be discontinued. It can be
a useful shop window for us, as I have
experienced.
Social or commercial? The club has
always been primarily a social one,
although some commercialism has
crept in now and again. No harm in
that, even if cartoonists in general
prefer to plough their own furrows.
As it has done already, The Jester can
continue to publish “Cartoons
Wanted” ads providing payment is
guaranteed by whoever requests the
cartoons (no cons or time-wasters
please!) And club exhibitions with the
cartoons for sale will always be
welcome! That’s commercialism!
There’s one other point I’d like to
make. Perhaps too much time is spent
talking about cartooning and general
navel-gazing. The important thing
about cartooning is to GET ON
WITH IT!
Alex Noel Watson
UNFORTUNATE to see that despite
the heat generated in the “heated
debate” over the past months on the
website forum, very few members
could make it to the “live” version at
the September meeting. I had come
in my wetsuit, prepared to take a few
rotten eggs and assorted hard-ball
vegetables. What a waste of good
neoprene. I did have some explaining to do to those nice constables
with the big guns at Kings Cross, but
that’s all sorted now, as I write to
you from HMP Belmarsh, awaiting
deportation to Algeria.
My recollections of the tepid debate were as follows …
Those present didn’t demur too
much from the overall conclusion
that the club should remain purely a
social club, although this raised the
much-discussed issue of “if it’s a
social club, why doesn’t anybody
turn up?” The issue of geography
always comes up. Gone are the days
of members dropping in after a hard
day’s slog around the bars of Fleet
Street, but a good third of all members still live in London or the adjoining Home Counties, and most of
those actually present on the night
were from further afield. There was
an agreement to ask the members
what they actually want from the
club and why they joined, via an
inserted questionnaire in an upcoming Jester.
The view that the club should not
involve itself in promoting and publicising individual members’ art or
business prevailed among those
present. It should be noted that our
Dear Leader (El Tel) holds the cor8
ner for the “commercialisers”, but I
think he understood the concerns of
the “socialisers”. There was some
debate about how open and broad
the membership criteria should be,
but the consensus seemed to be that
it should be left roughly as broad as
it is. The criteria for membership are
pretty undemanding, and there is
already an allowance, under existing
rules, for other interested parties to
join as associate members. The idea
(suggested in the forum debate by a
couple of people) of tiered membership (silver, gold, bakelite etc.) was
taken outside into the alley and shot.
The handbook should be scrapped
in its present form, to reappear as a
simple members’ contact list, probably inserted into a bumper end-ofyear Jester. This could also show
one example of each member’s
work, although that is to be decided.
This would, of course, not be sent to
external organisations.
The issue of the website is more
contentious, it seems. While some
“socialisers” would prefer to remove
all members’ pages and simply show
a few images of members’ cartoons,
others seem to favour retaining these
pages for displaying artwork. This is
still to be decided.
I think the proposal that any artwork sent out or displayed should be
selected, as in any other exhibition
or gallery, by a “hanging committee”
was accepted, but nothing was formally agreed.
I’m sure you’ll all correct the above
if I’ve struck the wrong note again,
but I think it is a fair summary of the
views expressed on the night.
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ANDY DAVEY chaired the discussion
and all were in favour of the club being
non-commercial. The handbook is out
of favour due to length of preparation
time, mail costs and out-dated info
over four to five years. The change of
name found no backers, noncartoonists can join under associate
member status and “who can join” was
inconclusive. This to the best of my
memory! The issues of the debate
have been aired in The Jester, seen on
the web and discussed at the meeting
but it would still be good to hear
broader views from the main body of
members.
Mike Turner
I WAS profoundly depressed after the
meeting – having had everyone pull
out all the stops to have a debate, none
of those stroppy arseholes bothered to
turn up. I mean [names of alleged
stroppy arseholes omitted in the interests of diplomacy – Ed] and the like.
I’d very much like to suggest that they
keep their opinions tightly buttoned
from now on, they were offered a
platform and ignored it. Bugger the
chat-room and the cosy little coterie
who inhabit it.
Clive Collins
THE turnout was disappointing at the
meeting but, to be honest how surprised were all of us who were there?
Yup, not very.
I thought a lot of the subsequent talk
was sensible and measured, even if we
were often disagreeing, and I thought
the decision to discontinue the printed
handbook (which was after all, where
all this navel gazing started) was the
right one.
I was OK about the reaffirmation of
the club’s role as a social organisation
and not a commercial one. I have always thought the commercial side of
the business should come from the
individual and not from the club.
As for the future, the club has three
main elements from what I can see:
1) The membership. 200 members,
perhaps up to 50 “active” in the traditional sense of visiting meetings and/or
events around the country.
2) The Jester. Monthly magazine
3) The website. Daily communication
tool.
Each element has strengths and
weaknesses but collectively they are a
strong thing. The problem (if problem
there be) really lies in the changed
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nature of our business. I forget who
made the point at the meeting (it might
have been Clive Collins?) that the
social club was born from the time
when everyone worked and socialised
within half a mile of The Cartoonist.
That’s a thing of the past I am afraid.
The social forum(s) we all have access
to now are The Jester, which is looking as well as I have ever known it,
and the website.
These are our social forums, we must
value them – the active members use
them already – and I may be mistaken,
but I think there has been a steady
increase in the number of other (shyer)
members joining them recently. This is
not to condemn the face-to-face meetings which can be great fun and make
the basis for the friendships which
sustain us all through the times when
the phone doesn’t ring. The combination of all three makes the club for me.
There are things to think about in
terms of meetings, I thought James
Kemsley’s helpful advice from Oz
(available on the website now) looked
as if it might provide some good ideas
about regional networks, even if they
are informal.
I’ll happily draw an interactive map
for the website if wanted. The idea
would be that individual members
could email details of what they are up
to, I’d update it on Ian Ellery’s new
design and it would be another small
way of making people feel included in
what is a very spread-out membership.
Other than that, I think the idea of an
annual event is good. And ideally we
would, as Terry says, do well to piggyback it on a larger festival and hope to
make some cash and perhaps, wonder
of wonders, some sponsorship.
Matt Buck
An ideas man
AT THE September meeting,
members were also entertained by
Jed Pascoe, who presented a talk
called “The Very Idea”. Utilising a
laptop and a projector, Jed showed us
some of his favourite cartoons,
arguing that even when they weren’t
great examples of linework, the ideas
really made them. The somewhat
boisterous audience reckoned some
of the ideas weren’t up to much
either, but it’s all subjective! Many
thanks to Jed for an entertaining talk.
Royston Robertson
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Forthcoming
club talks
and events
Speakers may change, or be
added, so keep an eye on
future Jesters and the Website
Forum for updates.
October: Simon Ellinas, on the
classic Marvel comics of his
childhood that inspired him to
pick up a pencil
November: Andy Davey
December: “Santa’s Surprise” –
this is billed by Aunty Helen as
“a fun-quiz-thing-cum entertainment-thingy-sort-ofshow-type-laugh”. Well, it is
almost Christmas! Come along
and do your party piece. And if
you’re feeling reticent ... there’s
free food!
January 2006: Les Barton
February: Neil Dishington
March: John MacInnerney from
King Features talks about
syndication. Plus Tim Harries –
“Tim’s Welsh Rare Bits”
April: Paul Baker
– “Baker’s Dozen Caricaturists”
May: Royston Robertson
June: Alex Noel Watson
–“Memories of The New Yorker”
If you would like to do a talk, let
The Jester or the committee
know. Though the list is full
until next June, you may be
able to squeeze in alongside
another speaker or take the
place of someone who drops
out. Talks are informal, don’t
have to be very long, and can
be on whatever subject you
think may interest other
members.
Club meetings are on the
first Tuesday of every month
at The Cartoonist pub, Shoe
Lane, London EC1, at 7pm
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A FEW years ago I placed a letter
in The Jester asking if anyone had
any information on Stephen Nemethy, a caricaturist whose work
used to appear in the TV Times in
the mid to late 1970s.
He was probably the first artist to get
a quiet eight-year-old boy in nerdy
NHS specs from the wilds of east
Kent interested in this branch of cartooning. I used to collect his drawings
and stick them into a scrapbook – yes,
I know, sad isn’t it? What an anorak.
Unfortunately I got no reply and so
was once again left wondering what
had become of him, and why he
seemed to stop producing caricatures
around the early 1980s. I vividly remember excellent drawings of Jimmy
Carter and Ronald Reagan done in the
run up to the 1980 presidential election, but very little after that.
At this point the only reference to
him on the internet was a small cartoon he’d done for Ronnie Scott’s
website, and my old scrapbook had
long since disappeared. Then, one
evening I got chatting to fellow caricaturist Steve Garner. “Have you tried
the newspaper and magazine archive
at Colindale,” he suggested. I hadn’t,
so the following week I went along
and ordered up the TV Times for 1976
to 1978. Bingo! After a couple of
hours of intensive thumbing I found
the examples that accompany this
article.
Recently I’ve been thinking about
doing a series of articles on caricaturists for The Jester, rather than my
scheduled talk at next April’s meeting. I decided to do a Google search
once again, and this time it came up
with an artist called Stephen Nemethy
who did religious illustrations on a
Benedictine Arts and Study Centre
website. I emailed them to see if they
were actually one and the same person, and received a reply from Father
Peter Burns.
Stephen was born in 1950, grew up
in Ealing and moved to the States in
the early 1980s following his work
for the TV Times. In the late 1980s he
decided to concentrate on sculpture
with the intention of moving to Italy.
This, however, coincided with the
illness and death of his parents and
Above: From The Courier and Advertiser, August
25. Below left: from The Times, August 24. Below
right: From the Scottish Sun, September 5. Spotted
by John “Speedy” Harrison and the Ed
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Finding Nemethy
Seventies icons: The TV Times
caricatures of Stephen Nemethy
kicked off an obsession with the
form in the eight-year-old Paul
Baker. Left to right: Hughie
Green, John Thaw, Wendy
Craig, Patrick Mower and
Joanna Lumley
Stephen returned to Ealing to nurse
them. Their passing caused him to
experience some kind of religious
conversion and he decided to dedicate his life to serving God through
his artistic ability. His local parish
priest allowed him to use an area
under the steps of the church as a
studio, and in time Stephen moved in
having given away his inheritance
and most of his possessions. He lived
the life of a hermit, relying on what
friends gave him for food, and producing banners, murals and stained
glass for the church and study centre.
He was befriended by many in the
parish but particularly Sheila Walsh.
Sheila suffered from ME and decided
to move out of London to Walsingham in Norfolk. Stephen was now
living in the Arts Centre in Ealing and
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was asked by the abbot to find some
other sleeping arrangements, so he
moved up to be with, and care for,
Sheila. They had a very close friendship based on their Catholic faith,
and he set up a studio in her garden
shed where he produced his religious
paintings.
Stephen’s caricature skills can be
seen in the figures in the paintings,
and he once told a parishioner who
spotted himself in a scene that he
couldn’t draw a figure without using
someone known to him – he could
produce a likeness from memory.
Perhaps inspired by his Hungarian
roots, his art also owes much to the
tradition of icon painting. Increasingly this became very accessible,
and resembled the playful and inventive (maybe cartoony?) illustrations
that might be found in children’s
books. Which, I suppose, brings me
back to where I started aged eight.
Finally, after nearly 30 years I have
some background information on the
man who started it all off for me, but
I won’t be able to thank him. Stephen
gradually developed a severe asthma,
and Sheila took to caring for him. On
July 11 last year, the feast of St
Benedict, Sheila found Stephen
kneeling in an attitude of prayer at
his bedside. He had died of a massive
heart attack.
Father Peter Burns suggested I write
to Sheila for further information
about Stephen and his work, which I
will do. He added: “I believe Stephen’s example and work should be
properly recognised.”
Me too. Enjoy the caricatures.
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Reviews
Flight
Volumes 1 & 2
YOU may be unfamiliar with the
majority of the artists featured in
these graphic novel anthologies and
that’s partly the reason they exist – as
a showcase for the emerging talent
on the internet and in the independent
comic scene.
Flight is the brainchild of
California-based Kazu Kibuishi who
gathered together a group of likeminded artists and cartoonists, with
the aim of self publishing, and getting their creations seen beyond the
online world. As it was being put
together, the high quality of the work
attracted a major publisher, and 2004
saw Volume 1 released to much acclaim. Volume 2 followed in 2005
and work has already started on the
next one.
If there are influences to be found in
most of the art on show, it’s more
Miyazaki (Howl’s Moving Castle,
Spirited Away) and Moebius (Blueberry) than the usual anime/manga/
superhero themes prevalent in a lot of
online work. Flight instead concentrates on story and character, with
such variety of styles and concepts
that should one artist not engage you,
the next surely will.
Kazu has done a terrific job editing
the volumes, and bringing the best
out of the talented artists. Standouts
in Volume 1 include Kazu’s own
Copper – a tale of one boy and his
dog as they attempt to take to the
skies, Khang Le’s Outside My Window – a delicately watercoloured
peek inside a young girl’s imagination, and Rad Sechrist’s Beneath the
Leaves – a Disneyesque take on the
growing pains of a squirrel (sounds
nuts – ha!).
Volume 2 has the added bonus of
twice as many pages and a few
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“names” including Jeff Smith, creator
of Bone (review coming next month),
and the celebrated animator Don
Hertzfeldt. An increase in size means
an even greater mix of styles from the
artists, with many telling their stories
wordlessly, allowing the art to really
shine. There are too many outstanding
pieces to select favourites, although
Doug Tenapel’s quirky Solomon Fix
comes close.
If you’ve got any interest in seeing
what is being created by this new
generation of cartoonists/comic book
artists, these books are a great way to
get up to speed. There’s plenty to
admire within them and a treasure
trove of ideas and techniques that we
as readers and cartoonists can absorb
and learn from. If you’ve got a chance
to, take Flight!
Both volumes are full colour. Volume 1 (208 pages) can be ordered
from Amazon for under £10. Volume
2 (432 pages) is about £12. Highly
recommended.
For more information about Kazu
and Flight, visit www.boltcity.com
Tim Harries
How to Draw
and Sell Digital
Cartoons
Leo Hartas
THIS impressive little volume does
exactly what it says on the cover.
Well-written by an obvious master of
his craft and beautifully designed to
appeal to the comics artist, the book is
a concentrated introduction to the
creation of graphic novels and comic-
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“That’s right sir, it’s a
Stealth Bomber Jacket.”
books or serial strips. Although the
author mentions gags in his early
chapters, for the average one-frame
gag-cartoonist perhaps much of the
content is unnecessary. But this is a
book for the cyber-artist – gagster or
graphic novelist, this book is an absolute gem.
Hartas takes the reader from the
basic conception of an idea through
the drawing and writing phases of a
gag, strip or novel to final publication
either on the web or in print. You’ll
want to throw away those congealing
paints and buy yourself at least one of
the many programs which are demonstrated. Each chapter ends with a list
of websites for further study and entertainment.
He covers all aspects of the digital
production of a comic strip, with
“How to” stages and tips of the trade.
Nothing is overlooked – from pencilling and colouring to production with
a variety of tools such as Photoshop,
Painter and Flash (to mention but
three of the basic programs) and all
pages are lavishly illustrated with
dozens of examples from major prac-
titioners of the various techniques and
programs which he seeks to introduce
to us. Hartas also discusses advanced
3-D character and set design techniques with much vigour, as these are
obviously a fabulous set of timesaving tools for the strip creator. He
introduces us to programs such as
Poser and Daz3D for character design,
and Bryce, World Builder and Vue
D’Esprit for set and backgrounds.
Each chapter has a “guest interview”
with artists such as Scott Reed (Last
Odyssey), Steve Bryant and Paul Daly
(Athena Voltaire), Roger Langridge
(Fred the Clown) and Matt Smith of
2000AD. Chapters include writing the
story, setting up the page, how to
handle speech balloons, and character
design. Interestingly, unlike so many
other “How to” art books, he doesn’t
talk about the kit until nearly the very
end of the book. And he settles the
Mac or PC argument quite nicely,
too! I’m not going to give the game
away here – get the book.
He devotes quite a bit of space to the
actual selling part of the operation,
discussing various merits of self publication, web publishing, and print.
I’ve never come across a book that
actually tells the reader so much so
concisely. Most of us had to learn the
hard way, but Hartas short circuits
much of that process and gives you
the nitty gritty.
The author himself admits that this
work barely scratches the surface of
his subject. But as a learned, practical
and above all, fun introduction and
long-term reference to this vastly
complex subject it’s an absolute must
have, if only for the illustrations. I’m
keeping mine close to my Wacom.
Jed Pascoe
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I WAS contacted via email by a
librarian in the States. She had been
passed my book (Learn to Draw
Caricatures – £8.99 from all good
bookshops now) and was wondering
whether I was the same Alex Hughes
from Birmingham, England, who had
also written a series of books on gay
and lesbian erotic French literature
from the 17th and 18th centuries. Turns
out they were written by Professor
Alexandra Hughes, a lecturer at
Birmingham University.
Alex Hughes
Answer:
page 18
I SENT a batch of black and white
unsolicited cartoon jokes to Men Only
magazine. The art editor phoned me
saying how much he liked them and
could I colour them? I was absolutely
delighted at this prompt response and
painted them up and posted them off.
A couple of days later the art editor
called again. What’s this, I thought, a
request for more work, already? No, he
was very apologetic, but he had looked
at the cartoons and decided that they
weren’t funny, so he would only be
paying me a 50 per cent rejection fee.
He explained that he had thought they
were funny because he was blind drunk
when they arrived, because he and the
other members of staff had been testing
a series of drinking games for a feature.
I’ve since changed my business cards
to: Simon Ellinas, jokes and cartoons
that only dipsomaniacs will enjoy!
Simon Ellinas
“You’re lucky – you’ve
got the knees for it.”
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Colin was very big in the
trouser department
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“The hat, Steve. Only the hat
goes on backwards.”
Fashion
Funnies
“I thought I’d better
splash out before my plastic
expires tomorrow.”
“Does my bum look
big in this?”
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LET forth cries of “Halloo, Hallay!”
Those gut instinct-led folk at del prado
publishing, after having sniffed in every
nook and cranny of hobby and fetish
have come up with another winner – a
complete collection of magazines covering the “History of Fire Engines”.
Whether there is sufficient mileage in
the subject of red fire wagons to take us
from A to the dizzying heights of Z
remains to be seen.
I can recall certain Marshall-Cavendish
projects that were advertised as “The AZ of …” whatever; you were then urged
to collect the finely crafted binders in
which to lovingly keep the set, and then
the whole venture petered out at around
letter P. Maybe there are millions of
fire engine buffs lurking out there to
justify the series. I just don’t want to
meet them at a party.
I now have to own up to a pathetic
hobby that I mercifully abandoned soon
after my voice broke (no, no, I think
you’re galloping ahead of me here …
whoah!). It was when I was at school,
and I would cut out and collect cartoonists’ signatures. Before you fall
about, I must take you back to the
1950s when cartoonists didn’t really
know each other – no chat rooms, and
certainly no club in which to moan and
discuss the profession. I was an avid
reader of cartoons, and magazines like
Blighty, Reveille and Titbits, and the
Foulsham collections (at least I think
that was the name of the company – I
dare say a reader out there will put me
right on that) that were published on a
fairly regular basis. In those days, cartoonists’ signatures were little works of
art, and often more interesting than the
work above it – strictly from a psychological point of view; all those whirls
and calligraphically wrought noms-deplume. And since I didn’t know any of
these people, the chance of actually
getting an autograph was highly unlikely. Thus I built up a couple of
volumes of the things.
I know that I can hear sniggering
coming through the walls now, so I’ll
not go much further on this, suffice to
say, that it kept me happy and quiet, and
didn’t damage my eyesight like many
other teenage activities might have
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done. Can I have my medication now,
nurse?
CAR Ads – ain’t they brilliant? My
current favourite digital creation is the
jive talking, dancing Transformer car
that advertises Citroen. In my search for
info about it, I find that it was created
by a newish studio called Embassy
Visual Effects Inc, a Vancouver-based
outfit founded two years ago. In May of
this year, this small company walked
away with four awards at the Clios, the
advertising industry’s Oscars. You can
learn more about their art at
‘Cartoonist
signatures were
little works of art,
often more
interesting than
the work above it’
www.theembassyvfx.com
MEDIA News: TV’s Aggie and Kim
move from How Clean is Your House?
to a new programme How Good Are
Your Cartoons? In the pilot episode they
call upon twentysomething aspiring
cartoonist Frig Napley. The two TV ladies spend a week with him, trying to
put him on the right track ...
Aggie: So what are you working on at
the moment?
FN: I’ve got a batch of desert island
gags to send out. I’m not sure, what do
you think?
Aggie: Oh dearie, dear. These will
never do. Look, you’ve got two characters here and you’ve drawn black
trousers on the one who isn’t talking.
Kim: The reader will be totally
confused. It’ll be the great Ray
Lowry confusion all over again.
Aggie: You could never join a professional association with this sort of thing
could he, dear?
FN: Well, I did think I might try …
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Aggie: Forget it!
Kim: I told that Bill Tidy years ago –
draw four fingers on a hand, Bill, or
you’ll never get anywhere.
FN: Actually he’s a great cartoonist.
Kim: Pure luck. He cornered the
Northern market. They’re not fussy
about finger numbers up there.
Aggie: Why don’t you copy someone
else’s work?
FN: You what?
Aggie: Well it worked for …
Kim: Aggie! We swore we’d never
tell!
Aggie: Maybe you’re too old. It’s a
young person’s game these days.
FN: Well, I went on Draw Ten Years
Younger, and after the makeover I lost
all my spots in the girlie mags because
they thought I was under-age.
Aggie [picking up a colour piece]: I
mean look at this. This is unhealthy.
Kim: All the skill of [the sound is
muffled here] but none of the wit. We
actually took some of your cartoons to
a couple of editors and they said the
work made them feel quite ill.
FN: Well Steve Way said I had possibilities – at least I think that’s what he
said; I couldn’t really read his writing.
Kim: It’s also presentation. Look at
those creases and fingermarks.
FN: They’re yours.
Aggie: Don’t be cheeky
Kim: Have you tried using a computer? With the Adobe Tosser 1.2
program it doesn’t matter how bad
your drawing is, or how unfunny, it’ll
automatically present your work in a
saleable style with an understandable
up-to-the-minute caption. Marf used it
for a long time.
Tomorrow night’s highlights: Changing Styles, in which our team suggest
trying a looser line and a different
name, and Vocation, Vocation, Vocation, in which Kirsty and Phil ponder
on whether where you live affects your
sense of humour and ability to draw.
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Notes from the North
I WAS on holiday, with my wife
Anne, in Bruges, Belgium, this summer. Bruges is a delightful medieval
city, famous for its chocolate, lacemaking and beer – not forgetting its
architecture, canals and museums.
From the cartoonist’s point of view,
there is a shop devoted to Herge’s
Tintin, selling books, prints, albums
and some amazing models of his
characters.
I must admit, I had an ulterior
motive in visiting Bruges: I wanted to
visit the International Cartoon Festival, up the road at Knokke-Heist.
After all, I had been lucky enough to
have had a cartoon accepted for the
exhibition.
How to get there by public transport
was our problem. We looked in at the
very fine information bureaux but the
English-speaking assistant didn’t
seem to know much about the exhibition. Indeed, I did notice a lack of
publicity in Bruges about the festival.
Eventually they did find the information on their computer and we were
advised to get a train to Knokke and
find a tram to the venue.
We boarded a train in Bruges. At the
stop for Duinbergen, I looked out of
the train window and saw a large
sign, with huge red letters, “Cartoon
Festival”, and an arrow indicating the
way! We decided this must be it and
we would not need to continue to
Knokke. We made a hasty exit from
the train.
The arrow pointed along a cycle
track that ran beside the railway, with
the back gardens of houses on the
other side. We eventually came to a
main road where another arrow
directed us to turn left under a bridge
and, thankfully, we found the venue,
the Lagunahal – more by luck than
good judgment!
It was well worth the journey – what
a magnificent exhibition of beautifully framed and well-displayed cartoons. The catalogue was more a
fantastic, full-colour book. The cartoons were from all over the world,
with some very clever ideas, all very
professionally drawn, mostly without
words and in colour. Naturally I
searched out my own humble effort.
When I found it, I got my wife – who
had had more than enough by then –
to take my photie (big head!)
“It’s not the @*! Mona Lisa.”
I NOTICE that there is an exhibition
at the Political Cartoon Gallery called
London Laughs. To me, London
Laughs means the work of cartoonist
Joe Lee. Joe is best remembered for
his work in the London Evening
News.
Under the heading London Laughs,
he produced thousands of cartoons for
this feature from 1934-1966. [Ed’s
note: according to the CAT’s The 100
British Cartoonists of the Century,
Joseph Lee “is thought to have drawn
over 9,000 cartoons, often two a day
for different editions”.]
Not living in London, I didn’t see his
work first hand. I got hold of a book
of his work, London Laughs 1934-
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1951, which was brought out at the
time of the Festival of Britain. I also
have a collection of cuttings of his
work from the early 1960s. Why there
were never any annuals of his work, I
don’t know. Later cartoonists in his
style, like Giles, Jak and Mac,
managed it.
Joe certainly set the style for the
large format social comment cartoon.
His cartoons were immaculately
drawn – his buildings, interiors, doors
and window fittings perfect in every
detail, no doubt influenced by his
early interest in architecture. He was
especially good at drawing transport
too – new cars, old cars, Tube trains,
vans, lorries and London buses. His
people were well-drawn, true to type,
folks in pub or office, policemen,
street urchins, high life, low life – all
well-observed by Joe’s pen.
I believe the CCGB recognised his
talent in 1963, with an award for
special services to cartooning. Anybody remember that? Did you know
Joe Lee?
Joe retired to Norwich and continued to work for the local paper and
even did some work for the comics
Wham and Whizzer and Chips, although I can’t trace any of his comic
sets. Anyone know of them? And
what became of his thousands of
originals? I would love to have one of
them. A great talent – I think it’s time
we had a revival of his work, an
exhibition maybe?
Bill Ritchie
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Welcome to new members
David Lloyd
1st floor
9 Portland Place
Brighton BN2 1DG
Tel: 01273-600 173
Email: [email protected]
Published in DC Comics, Marvel,
Dark Horse Comics and Polystyle.
Co-creator of the acclaimed graphic
novel V for Vendetta (excerpt, above)
which is currently being adapted into
a film due for release next year.
Below: from the DailyRecord.
Bottom: from The Times. Both Sept 9.
Spotted by “Speedy” and the Ed
Drawing Together: The Big
Draw meets Carnival
October 2, 11am-5pm
A NUMBER of you know from previous years what a big
gathering this is. Well this year they’re closing off the whole
of Exhibition Road, South Kensington, for all things drawing
and arty. See and meet celebs and well-known artists and
cartoonists for a very full, varied day. All members welcome
– bring your pens (art materials supplied anyway). Teaching
people, families and children about what we do is what it’s all
about. And they’re really receptive and appreciative. Check
out the hundreds of events at www.thebigdraw.org.uk
If enough of us respond, they can set up a special area for us
to do our thing. Please contact Sue Grayson Ford on 020-8351
1719 or email [email protected] If you’re going, let
me know so I can meet you there.
Terry Christien
Toontrek
SUE BURLEIGH is in the
last couple of weeks of her
Toontrek. The cartooning
nurse has been on an 80-day
trip around Europe and part of
the Middle East, collecting
cartoons to be auctioned for
Comic Relief. Sue can be
emailed on toontrek@
hotmail.com. Follow her
progress at www.ccgb.org.uk
/toontrek/toontrek-blog.html
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A word from the Editor
WHO says the general
public have no interest
in cartoons?
When The Guardian
unceremoniously
dumped Garry
Trudeau’s Doonesbury
strip a couple of weeks
ago, as part of its
redesign in the smaller
“Berliner” format, the
paper received more
than 1,000 complaints.
Pretty impressive, you
must admit. OK, it’s an
imported strip, but it’s
still some good news in
the world of cartoons!
You have to wonder if
The Sun would get the
same reaction if they
dumped George and
Lynne. I reckon it
would certainly be
worth putting it to
the test.
Talking of The
Guardian, we’ve all
seen examples of
topical cartoonists
thinking along the same
lines, but rarely have
the results been
displayed in such close
proximity. Page 23 of the paper on
September 9, featured a cartoon by
Jas: a dead Superman lying face
down in the flood waters of New
Orleans. Turn over to page 24 and
what do we see? A cartoon by Steve
Bell: a dead Lady Liberty
lying face down in the flood waters
of New Orleans. Clearly no one in
the op-ed department had the nerve
to phone one of them and ask if he
had got any other ideas.
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