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5 March 2022

Political Cartoon Society newsletters - part 4

Having looked here at my collection of the Cartoon Museum newsletters I thought I'd follow that up with a look at something similar from the Political Cartoon Society. I was a member of the society from 2001-7 and I'll be looking at the newsletters they issued in that time, the newsletters may continue to this day who knows?

Part 1 (2001+2) was here
Part 2 (2003) was here
Part 3 (2004) was here
Part 4 (2005) is below

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Spring 2005
8 pages, A4, colour covers
Bill Mcarthur interview 
Churchill in caricature

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Summer 2005
8 pages, A4, colour covers
book reviews
Richard Cole interview

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Autumn 2005
8 pages, A4, colour covers
book reviews
Boris Efimov interview
Tribute to Wally 'Trog' Fawkes

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Winter 2005
8 pages, A4, colour covers
Martin Rowson - "We, the cartoonists, are the true outsiders of journalism"
Mac [Stan McMurty] interview

15 February 2022

Political Cartoon Society newsletters - part 5

Having looked here at my collection of the Cartoon Museum newsletters I thought I'd follow that up with a look at something similar from the Political Cartoon Society. I was a member of the society from 2001-7 and I'll be looking at the newsletters they issued in that time, the newsletters may continue to this day who knows?

Part 1 (2001+2) was here
Part 2 (2003) was here
Part 3 (2004) was here
Part 4 (2005) was here
Part 5 (2006+7) is below 

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Spring 2006
8 pages, A4, colour covers
Peter Brookes interview
Hitler's cartoon collecting

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Autumn 2006
8 pages, A4, colour covers
Kevin 'Kal' Kallaugher interview
book reviews

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Winter 2006
8 pages, A4, colour covers
Gerald Scarfe interview
book review
Martin Rowson on "Why George is gorgeous!"

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Winter 2007
I'm sure there must have been other issues in 2007 but this is the only newsletter that I've retained
8 pages, A4, colour covers
Peter Schrank interview
The political cartoons of Jimmy Friell

26 March 2019

Art quarterly spotlights the Cartoon Musuem

The Spring 2019 issue of Art Quarterly, the quarterly magazine for members of the Art Fund charity, (website here) is now out and contains a focus on comics.

Established over 100 years ago as a sort of Victorian crowd-funding organisation Art Fund helps give grants to help museums do more...from buying works of art and sharing them across the UK, to providing funding and opportunities for curators. 

In this issue, to celebrate the April opening of the new London home of the Cartoon Museum, Steve Marchant and Becky Jefcoate select five of the works that they been able to acquire for the museum's Lottery-funded 'Comic Creators' project (details here). 

Martin Rowson - well-known cartoonist and trustee of the Cartoon Museum - also chooses a piece from the project...