UPDATED CCGB - Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain

I've looked before at the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain (CCGB) and some of the material that is out there for collectors. 

Today's update is these two members handbooks that I'd not seen before. The first ('silver') is for 1985 and the second ('dark blue') covers the 1988/89 year. I'm intrigued to see who's contributed interior art to these and will post an update shortly.

Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain members handbook - 1985

Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain members handbook - 1988/89

Today's update is a look at the 1965 cartoonists club dinner & ball. An event so grand that the prime minister spoke at it!

All images are sourced from this large format (approx. A4) sized, about 80 page brochure. It's rammed with trade adverts & stuff so I've just picked out the most comic-y pages

The actual Prime Minister talking to a bunch of cartoonists!

Check out that fancy food that cartoonists eat!

Its a pretty strong list of winners...Leslie Illingworth, Harry Bishop, Frank Dickens, Reg Smythe, Osbert Lancaster, Jak, Larry

There's a members handbook here, here and here

The book 'It's all here in black and white' is here

22nd annual birthday lunch is here

Since then I've come across further items that the club produced...

This was produced in 1964 (the club was formed in 1960)

This was produced (originally) in 1963 as British Cartoonists Year Book 1964 - this edition was published in March 1965

These were from a 1979 flight to New York

This was produced in 1989...

UPDATED CCGB - Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain

I've looked before at the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain (CCGB) and some of the material that is out there for collectors. 

Today's update is a look at the 1965 cartoonists club dinner & ball. An event so grand that the prime minister spoke at it!

All images are sourced from this large format (approx. A4) sized, about 80 page brochure. It's rammed with trade adverts & stuff so I've just picked out the most comic-y pages

The actual Prime Minister talking to a bunch of cartoonists!

Check out that fancy food that cartoonists eat!

Its a pretty strong list of winners...Leslie Illingworth, Harry Bishop, Frank Dickens, Reg Smythe, Osbert Lancaster, Jak, Larry

There's a members handbook here, here and here

The book 'It's all here in black and white' is here

22nd annual birthday lunch is here

Since then I've come across further items that the club produced...

This was produced in 1964 (the club was formed in 1960)

This was produced (originally) in 1963 as British Cartoonists Year Book 1964 - this edition was published in March 1965

These were from a 1979 flight to New York

This was produced in 1989...

CCGB - Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain

I've looked before at the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain (CCGB) and some of the material that is out there for collectors. 

There's a members handbook here, here and here

The book 'It's all here in black and white' is here

22nd annual birthday lunch is here

Since then I've come across further items that the club produced...

This was produced in 1964 (the club was formed in 1960)

This was produced (originally) in 1963 as British Cartoonists Year Book 1964 - this edition was published in March 1965

These were from a 1979 flight to New York

This was produced in 1989...

CCGB awards lunch 1982

I recently acquired a copy of the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain (CCGB) 22nd birthday lunch, the brochure is A4 sized (32 pages, A4) and is a mixture of commercial ads and examples of the nominees ads.

Here's the postcard sized invitation...

The nominations for 'Children's strip cartoon of the year' are as follows...

And here are the award winners, luckily the previous owner has marked all the winners...

Congratulations to Sid Burgon on his win


Here's the history of the Cartoonist Club of Great Britain (CCGB)

advert for new Eagle

Cartoonaid Kidz - part 1 - Bryan Hitch

I acquired a copy of this annual recently, it's from 1989 (and is easy to acquire online) and features some top comic talent writing and illustrating stories based on characters that kids have (initially) written and drawn themselves. Plenty of interesting creators involved and I'll showcase their various contributions over the next few days. 

First up we have a humour strip by that 19-year old veteran of the British comics industry Bryan Hitch. Yep, that Bryan Hitch. THE Bryan Hitch.

Cheers Bryan!

The project was created in an effort to raise funds to help run the Wad Sherifay refugee camp in the Sudan (the Cartoon Aid project the previous year had raised enough money for the Swiss Red Cross to look after the 50,000 people in the camp). 

The Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain helped supply the cartoonists and chose the overall winner at their 1988 Christmas party.

The director of the project was Graham Cooke, the project organisers were Frank Plowright and Melanie Smith. The Cartoon Aid team were Jackie Brannan, Annie Woods, Amanda Cooper and Leslie Kett.